Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

by New Scientist

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473651319
Publisher:	John Murray Press
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	707,285
File size:	883 KB

About the Author

Since the first magazine was published in 1956, New Scientist has established a world-beating reputation for exploring and uncovering the latest developments and discoveries in science and technology, placing them in context and exploring what they mean for the future. Each week through a variety of different channels, including print, online, social media and more, New Scientist reaches over four million highly engaged readers - over a million readers for the print magazine alone.

Since 1956, New Scientist has established a world-beating reputation for exploring and uncovering the latest developments and discoveries in science and technology, placing them in context and exploring what they mean for the future. Each week through a variety of different channels, including print, online, social media and more, New Scientist reaches over 5 million highly engaged readers around the world.

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Table of Contents

Introduction     1
Our Bodies     3
Feeling OK?     30
Plants and Animals     41
Food and Drink     67
Domestic Science     106
Our Planet, Our Universe     129
Weird Weather     148
Troublesome Transport     154
Best of the Rest     175
Index     207

Editorial Reviews

This follow-up to the phenomenally successful Does Anything Eat Wasps?, specially reshaped for American readers, contains answers to those science questions you've been dying to ask: Why doesn't superglue stick to the inside of its tube? Why do some people stick out their tongue when concentrating? And, more pressingly, what time is it at the North Pole? Wacky enlightenment.