New Scientist / Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
(Sprache: Englisch)
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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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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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third 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 ? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze ? (2006), this latest collection includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful answers never before seen in book form.As usual, the simplest questions often have the most complex answers - while some that seem the knottiest have very simple explanations. 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 all-new and eagerly awaited selection of the best again presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.
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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 107 other questions answered. "Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" is the third 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?" (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?" (2006), this latest collection includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful answers never before seen in book form. As usual, the simplest questions often have the most complex answers - while some that seem the knottiest have very simple explanations. "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 all-new and eagerly awaited selection of the best again presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.
Autoren-Porträt von Mick O'Hare
Mick O'Hare, 1964 in Mirsfield/England geboren, ist Redakteur bei der Zeitschrift "New Scientist" - der führenden englischen Wochenzeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Technik.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mick O'Hare
- 2008, 224 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Mick O'Hare
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846681308
- ISBN-13: 9781846681301
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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'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.
Pressezitat
Following on from the ludicrously popular Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze , this latest collection of strange and intriguing posers from the New Scientist 's 'Last Word' column achieves a scientifically improbable feat: it continues to feed the appetite for weird science without seeming to scrape the bottom of the barrel ... sure to be another Christmas hit Independent
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