Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (New Scientist) - Softcover

New Scientist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861978766 ISBN 13: 9781861978769

Publisher: Profile Books, 2006

Synopsis

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? - the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller - this new collection includes recent answers never before published in book form, and also old favourites from the column's early days.

Yet again, many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. New Scientist's 'Last Word' is regularly voted the magazine's most popular section as it celebrates all questions - the trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange. This new selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

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Review:

An ideal Christmas gift for lovers of the strange and baffling. (Publishing News)

A fascinating mix of the baffling, ridiculous and trivial ... answers the scientific questions you never got round to asking. (Daily Express)

They are the things we've all wondered about, from why we cry when we slice onions, to what makes our hair turn grey (Daily Mirror)

The answers to life's most perplexing questions ... at last, the mysteries of the world are explained ... the book everyone is talking about (Independent on Sunday)

[An] extraordinary book ... responsible for putting popular science back on its feet. (Radio 5 Live)

If you have ever wondered why hair turns grey, fingers get crinkled in the bath or if the Great Wall of China really is visible from space, Mick O'Hare has the answers. (CNN)

Book Description:

What time is it at the North Pole? Should you pickle your conkers? Why does my aubergine look like Elvis? These, plus 111 other questions answered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1861978766
• ISBN 13: 9781861978769
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: O'Hare Mick