Product Description

More questions and answers from the popular Last word column. The New Scientist magazine's ever-popular Last Word column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers from its readers. For all those who relish its mixture of wit, insight and scientific curiosity - not to mention those who have read and enjoyed Does Anything Eat Wasps?, the brilliantly successful previous collection - this new volume will be irrisistable. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? includes recent answers never before published in book form, as well as old favourites from the column's early days. This bumper collection brings together the highlights of the Last Word in another wise, weird and wacky compendium that is guaranteed to amaze, inform and delight.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43670 in Books
• Brand: Paperback
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

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Review
Daily Express - 'a fascinating mix of the baffling, ridiculous and trivial...answers the scientific questions you never got round to asking.' Independent on Sunday - 'at last, the mysteries of the world are explained...the book everyone is talking about' Daily Mirror - 'They are the things we've all wondered about, from why we cry when we slice onions, to what makes our hair turn grey...' BBC Radio 5 Live - 'Extraordinary book...responsible for putting popular science back on its feet'

Independent on Sunday
'at last, the mysteries of the world are explained... the book
everyone is talking about'

BBC Radio 5 Live
'Extraordinary book... responsible for putting popular science
back on its feet'