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Play It Again, Tom
Play It Again, Tom
Sep 20, 2024 8:26 AM

Author:Augustus Brown

Play It Again, Tom

Dogs can smell electricity. Cats can heal bones by purring. Kittens can contact their mothers via a secret, ultra-sonic language. Dogs can understand a vocabulary of 200 human words.

Every day, it seems, new scientific discoveries are fuelling the age old argument about which of man's two best friends really is the superior species. Augustus Brown fans the flames further with this collection of the weirdest, most wonderful and downright incredible of these truths about cats and dogs. Did you know, for instance, that dogs can see moving objects 900 yards away, and that cats can sense earthquakes coming? Or that dogs prefer Bach to Britney, while cats prefer drugs to chocolate?

Fascinating, funny and provocative, his book may not settle the debate once and for all. But it is certain to set cat and dog lovers arguing like, well you know what...

Reviews

One of the most original and intriguing books of the last two decades

—— John Naughton , Guardian

A very deep and important book, beautifully written

—— Oliver Sacks

A book that can be read as literature, whether or not you have any interest in computers and machine intelligence . . . satisfying, edifying and accessible

—— John Gribbin

An extraordinarily exciting, intriguing and very idiosyncratic book

—— Nature

David Deutsch...may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age.

—— Andrew Crumey , The Scotsman
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