An Inaccurate Guide To Everything We Know About The World [SATIRE]

Fake Science 101: A Less-Than-Factual Guide to Our Amazing World by Phil Edwards is a 272-page textbook on general science. Only it's not the dry, boring, diagram-filled textbook you would find in your average high school science class. It's a "less-than factual guide" to the fascinating world of science.

Think The Daily Show meets Bill Nye and voilà! You've got Fake Science 101.

A quick skim of this book and you'll understand why we yawn in the morning (to create space for Twinkies in your mouth), who Archimedes was (the guy who yelled "Eureka!"), and where the name "Rover" originated (from the second dog ever to visit space).

It will be available Aug. 12 at these outlets.  

We've pulled out some of the best inaccurate and ridiculous explanations.  

If you can tolerate the heat, housing near volcanoes is exciting and cheap.

Always recycle aluminum cans and always put decaying elements in the radioactive bin.

In the future, it’s possible that we’ll be able to use clones to advance our age. Is it plausible that we could transfer the heads of senior citizens onto the bodies of baby clones? Absolutely!

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