Book review: Asap Science: Answers To The World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors & Unexplained Phenomena

WITH almost four million subscribers to its YouTube channel and several millions of views every month, Mitchell Moffit and Grey Brown are essentially social media celebrities who have created a wacky, yet wildly successful online platform to explain everyday science.

Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown

Scribe Publications, €16.99

And now they’ve condensed all those little nuggets of information from their quirky videos into a handy book that offers a scientific explanation for all the weird and wonderful phenomena we experience daily.

These 20-something Canadian science wizards answer all those random questions you may have thought to ask in a science class but didn’t have the courage to.

For example, can sneezing pop your eyeballs out? Why are men so hairy? Is it possible for humans to spontaneously combust?

Why you are procrastinating when you should be studying for your exams or getting on with your work, Moffit and Brown will explain it all.