---*Do spiders get thirsty? How long would it take a cow to fill the Grand Canyon with milk? How do they get the stripes on toothpaste? Plus ninety-four other questions answered"*---

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Product Description

Ships from Spain. Please allow 10-18 business days to arrive at UK address (10-21 worldwide) due to postal service checks and customs. Do spiders get thirsty? How long would it take a cow to fill the Grand Canyon with milk? How do they get the stripes on toothpaste? This 3rd compilation of readers' answers in the "New Scientist" presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55840 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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Review
'Sure to be another Christmas hit' Independent. 'A fascinating book' BBC Focus. 'It does have wonderful laughs' Sunday Tribune. 'It's interesting, it's accurate and it's science without the boring bits - If you're thinking of buying it as a present then it's something for the intelligent, thinking reader to keep' The Bookbag.

From the Back Cover
* Why does garlic make your breath smell? * How many germs are there on a coin? * What makes you left-handed or right-handed? * Do fish get thirsty? * Does it matter which lottery numbers you choose? New Scientist magazine's supremely popular 'Last Word' column offers an endless array of fascinating questions and answers from its readers. Here is a brand-new collection of the very best of them, in another dazzling mixture of serious enquiry, brilliant insight and the hilariously unexpected. Two previous 'Last Word' collections - Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? - are No. 1 bestsellers, and both are firm favourites with a wide range of readers. This eagerly awaited third volume is as full of wit, wisdom and wackiness as ever - it will be irresistible for 'Last Word' fans and new readers alike.

About the Author
Over fifty years old, New Scientist is the bestselling science magazine in the world, with over 400,000 readers a week in the UK alone. Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is again compiled and edited by Mick O'Hare, production editor at New Scientist and widely interviewed author of How to Fossilise Your Hamster.