Buch lesen: «Grossopedia: A Startling Collection of Repulsive Trivia You Won’t Want to Know!»
Dedication
For my fifth-grade teacher, Mr. McInerney, who pushed us way beyond our comfort zone in a magical classroom where we were encouraged to experiment, learn from failure, face our fears, and prioritize true growth over outward measures of success—an approach to teaching that was rare then and, thanks to dwindling funds for public education and current testing mandates, is now all but extinct.
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Bizarre Cuisine
Outlandish Animal Land
Wickedly Weird News
Fetid Festivals
The Horrors of Modern Science
To Each His Own (Disgusting Habits)
Unnatural Wonders
The Indecent Tourist
Creepy Crawlies
Icky History
Around the (Roach-Infested) House
Eco-Unfriendly
Barbaric Bodies
Farts & Culture
Gross Rebellion
Postscript: What is Disgust?
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Copyright page
About the Publisher
INTRODUCTION
I get really easily grossed out. So easily—and dramatically—in fact, that I used to faint because of it. The first time was when our amazing fifth-grade teacher, Mr. McInerney, mentioned that we’d be dissecting a sheep’s eye. Or maybe he just had a sheep’s eye in a jar of formaldehyde. I only heard the first part of the sentence, but I don’t think I myself ever laid eyes on the eye of the ewe.
I also lost consciousness briefly when he told us to collect cells to examine under the microscope by running a little wooden stick against the inside of our cheeks. I woke up to the sound of Mr. McInerney’s voice asking, “Are you with us?” I was, but it was touch and go from there—through junior high and most of high school. In chorus, I once fell off the back riser during a holiday show while the rest of the choir finished singing Billy Joel’s “And so It Goes.” I don’t even remember what it was that initially bothered me. My mom heard the thud of my head hitting the stage but didn’t realize I was missing until the end of the song. Another time, I ended up in the nurse’s office after reading a story in English class about a boy who swam underwater so long that his blood vessels burst.
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