Dr. Carly Anne York The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

About the author:

Dr. Carly Anne York is an animal behaviorist and physiologist who studies how animals interact with their environments. She teaches biology courses within the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Additionally, she is an active science communicator who has collaborated with TED-ED on the creation of science lessons and participated in numerous YouTube shows and podcasts. She is also the author of two nonfiction science books for children, A Day in the Life: Horses and Queens of the Jungle. She lives in North Carolina.

About the book:

In The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven science has led to breakthroughs big and small. Got wind power? You might have humpback whales to thank. Know anything about particle physics? Turns out there is a ferret close to the heart of it all. And if you want to keep salmon around, be thankful for that cannon! The research itself can seem bizarre, but it drives our economy. And what’s more, this stuff is simply cool.

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