![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roach joins Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt in making a career of turning serious research on oddball subjects into bestsellers. If all fails, the military wants to correct the consequences with better prostheses and surgical reconstructions of mutilated or missing body parts. I have omitted whole disciplines of worthy endeavor.” Roach reveals many of these names, however, along with the stories of their quests to shield soldiers from harm and, if this fails, repair the often gruesome results. Traveling from proving ground to lab to expensive, realistic fake battle settings, the author recounts and often participates as researchers search for better ways to protect soldiers from bullets, burns, explosions, noise, heat, sharks, insomnia, drowning, and disease. The work I write about represents a fraction of a percent of all that goes on. “For every general and Medal of Honor winner,” writes the author, “there are a hundred military scientists whose names you’ll never hear. ![]() Readers encountering this esoteric project on the first page will settle back to enjoy another patented scientific romp, this one on battlefield research, by journalist Roach ( Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, 2013, etc.). A cannon fires grocery chickens at parked jets, testing ways to protect planes against bird strikes. ![]()
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