Thursday, August 21, 2008

Top 5 Mad Scientists of All Time

From Popular Mechanics:

For millennia, legions of mad scientists have toiled in underground laboratories, trespassed on the territory of the gods and cackled madly into the night. This book honors the greatest mentally unstable geniuses of history in true mad science fashion—using the tenets of forensic psychology to mentally autopsy these savants. Beginning with child development and proceeding through adolescence and higher education, we will deconstruct the how and why of their abominable plans and heartless transgressions against man and nature. This is what happens when you coax a mad scientist out of his laboratory and onto the psychologist's couch. Put on your latex gloves, snap on a pair of goggles, and dig out a lab coat that isn't covered in bloodstains, because we're about to walk the corridors of ... The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame.

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Special Note: 3 of the 5 are fictional.

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