How are explosives and diamonds, Coca-Cola and fertility rates, kissing and allergies related? How does it feel to live in the skin of a goat or fly between droplets like mosquitoes? Do plants have rights? Where does the bee sting the most? From a frivolous question to a true discovery, one step... And science is not at all a dull conveyor belt for the production of knowledge, it is full of mistakes, misconceptions, curious cases, non-standard approaches to the problem. Scientists who are not afraid to look at the world without prejudice sometimes become laureates of the Ignobel Prize "for achievements that make you laugh first and then think." In their book, the authors Heinrich Erlich and Sergey Komarov talk about these incredible discoveries, experiments of researchers (including above itself), parallels (for example, between the device of hell and black holes), far-reaching findings (restoration of protein structure and reversal of time), and most importantly - about inexhaustible human curiosity, the ability to ask questions and, of course, a sense of humor.