Homo Sapiens - Obsolescens?

Michael Scherperel

Description

Did you ever wonder why your body works the way it does? Or doesn't? Sometimes it seems like things could have been organized a little more happily. Michael Scherperel's light-hearted set of 21 essays on possible design problems with the human body, Homo Sapiens - Obsolescens?, will take you on a journey from head to toe--well, not quite that far, but pretty close--examining some of the quirks of human construction.

Sujets

• Humour

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645367635
• Langue: English

Extrait

Homo Sapiens – Obsolescens?
A Brief Look at Some Design Problems
Michael Scherperel
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-07-31
Homo Sapiens – Obsolescens? About The Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgements Foreword Nasal Turbinates Scrota Waste Water ♂ Waste Water ♀ Baculum U-Bend Brainpan Nausea Equine Nausea Trichobezoars Hemorrhoids Collagen Varicosities Excitation Cycle Velus Sebaceous Glands Pharyngitis Vocal Tract Presbyphagia OMFA Syndrome Telomeres , Senescence, and Apoptosis Afterword What Did You Say? More About the Author
About The Author
Michael Scherperel is a composer, conductor, vocal coach, and collaborative pianist with a background in science and medicine as well. He has studied at Harvard, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Miami, and Tufts School of Medicine. His first novel, Fair to Middling , was written at about the same time as his second opera, Thompson’s Luck .
Dedication
For my granddaughter, Emma, who took Future Scientist Award at her pre-school graduation. You can’t read this book yet, Emma, but I hope you will one day. May it bring you pleasure and a few smiles.
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Scherperel, Michael
Homo Sapiens – Obsolescens?
A Brief Look at Some Design Problems
ISBN 9781643783802 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781643783819 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645367635 (ePub e-book)
The main category of the book — Humor / Form / Essays
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019908415
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Acknowledgements
My sincere thanks to my wife, Loretta, for her support during the many and varied facets of my professional life and her patience during my do-not-disturb creative times.
Foreword
There is an old joke about three engineers who were discussing God and debating what sort of engineer He might be.
The mechanical engineer asserts that God, too, is a mechanical engineer. His argument? The wondrous construction of the human skeleton and the way in which it supports the entire, complex structure of the body. The electrical engineer counters that, no, one only has to look at the miracle of the human brain, what complex feats it can perform using bioelectrical mechanisms, to discern that God is an electrical engineer. The civil engineer disputes both of his colleagues. “God,” he proclaims, “is obviously a civil engineer. Who else would run a waste disposal pipeline through a pleasure area.”
This brief tome is a tongue-in-cheek look at some design issues with the human body and, indeed, with some other animals too. Plant life might have figured into this discussion as well, I suppose, but I restrained myself (believe it or not).