Author: Nick Downes
Subject: Science/History of Science
Paper ISBN 0-8135-8502-7
Pages: 150 pp.

Foreword by Sidney Harris

"Guaranteed to tickle the funny bone of even the most apathetic student. . . . We enthusiastically recommend this zany volume for personal enjoyment or as the ideal gift for both student and science teacher."--Journal of College Science Teaching

When cartoonist Nick Downes looks to Big Science for explanations, anything can happen. This first collection of his zany view of life in the laboratory--and beyond--takes everything to an extreme, from technology ("Aerobics is down the hall. This is Robotics.") to the atmosphere (with "threatening clouds" that spell out "YOU'RE DOOMED.")

Downes's dark side allows him to see the agnostic mantis, the agoraphobic lost in the desert, and the toxic waste dump behind the much-photographed Lookout Point.

Nick Downes is also the author of Whatever Happened to "Eureka"?: Cartoons on Science (Rutgers University Press, 1994), and lives and draws in Brooklyn, New York.