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The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment
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The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment

Author: A J Jacobs
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edView all editions and formats
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A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Reality memoirs
Humor
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: A J Jacobs
ISBN: 9781416599067 1416599061
OCLC Number: 298776775
Description: xiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: My life as a beautiful woman --
My outsourced life --
I think you're fat --
240 minutes of fame --
The rationality project --
The truth about nakedness --
What would George Washington do? --
The unitasker --
Whipped.
Other Titles: My life as an experiment
Responsibility: A.J. Jacobs.
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A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India. He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty, in which you say what's on your mind. He goes to the Academy Awards disguised as a movie star, to understand the strange and warping effects of fame. He commits himself to ultimate rationality, using cutting-edge science to make the best decisions possible. He attempts to follow George Washington's rules of life. And, for a month, he followed his wife's every whim.--From publisher description.

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