Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati

In 1984 he wrote The Browser’s Book of Beginnings about the origins of everyday objects, which was turned into a weekly TV show called The Start of Something Big. Although he legally changed his name to Charles Hudson, he continued to publish under the name Charles Panati. In the 1980s, he learned his father was adopted, and that his birth name was Charles Hudson.

He used his background in radiation health technology to examine the benefits and dangers of radiation, including nuclear radiation from power plant accidents. He also wrote the psychological suspense novels Links (1978) and The Pleasuring of Rory Malone (1982).įollowing the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania happened, he co-wrote the book The Silent Intruder: Surviving the Radiation Age (1981) with his brother, Michael Hudson. He followed up with other fringe science books: The Geller Papers (1976), which was about the Israeli psychic Uri Geller Death Encounters (1979), about the 'white light' phenomenon reported by some people who have been resuscitated from the verge of death and Breakthroughs: Advances in Science, Medicine and Technology (1980), about future developments in technology. He became interested in parapsychology and his first book, Supersenses: Our Potential for Parasensory Experience (1974) was about extrasensory perception. In 1971 he became a science reporter for Newsweek Magazine. After graduating, he worked in cancer research at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. in Radiation Health Physics from Columbia University. in physics from Villanova University, and in 1966 he received a M.Sc. His family had worked with the Miss America Pageant, and in his early twenties Panati worked as an escort for pageant contestants.

Charles Panati was born in Baltimore, MD, and raised in Atlantic City, NJ.

Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati