How to Dunk a Doughnut: The science of everyday life by Len Fisher, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99, ISBN 0297607561 Reviewed by Wendy Grossman
YOU have to be very dedicated to science to dunk and eat 140 biscuits with a stainless steel tube thrust up your nose, chewing each for a specified count, while a colleague presses buttons to record and analyse the results. This is how people win IgNobel prizes (for scientific achievements that “cannot, or should not, be reproduced”), and indeed physicist Len Fisher is an IGlaureate. In How to Dunk a Doughnut he drops a hint that he was…
