Curious and funny collection of scientific tips for your health, career, happiness and love-life
(11/06/2010)

An instant best-seller in The Netherlands, 'Dunk Your Biscuit Horizontally - 106 Quirky Scientific Curiosities' is now being published in the UK. This book contains and explains a most curious collection of tips for your health, career, happiness and love-life ... all supported by real (if bizarre) scientific research.

Based on international scientific research (all of which is fully referenced) but presented in a tongue-in-cheek style, this books reveals startling truths guaranteed to change your life – or at least make you popular at dinner parties. Fascinating and often hilarious, it will open your eyes to the quirky science behind our everyday lives.

For instance did you know that if you are riding a bike, it may be safer to wear a wig than a helmet? Discover the best time of day to be operated on, how kissing is good for hay fever, which cheese to serve with bad wine – plus many other tips for work and home, for eating and drinking and for a better love life.

Other interesting tips:
Do ask for a rectal massage to cure your hiccups
Don’t marry a teacher
If you're a man, do look at other men and get more powerful sperm
Don’t wear glasses if you’re on the pill
Do eat chocolate if you’re suffering from diarrhoea
Don’t use duct tape on warts
Don’t speak dialects with your children
Do sit in the middle to seem more intelligent
Don’t get a nipple piercing and definitely not a Prince Albert
Do shake your milkshake longer and get thinner
Don’t grill aubergines if you care about your teeth
Do sniff through your right nostril to make everything smell nicer

Authors, Rik Kuiper and Tonie Mudde are Dutch journalists and editors of Quest, Holland’s most popular magazine with over one million readers. They both studied at Delft University of Technology and have received numerous awards for their writing.

Dunk Your Biscuit Horizontally is published by Summersdale and available through all good bookshops and internet booksellers or by telephoning Summersdale.

Dunk Your Biscuit Horizontally - 106 Quirky Scientific Curiosities
Rik Kuiper & Tonie Mudde
ISBN: 978 1 84953 053 8
Paperback 128 pages
£7.99
June 2010