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Loading... Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions (New Scientist)by New ScientistSeries: New Scientists' readers (1), New Scientist: The Last Word (3)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. AMAZON - How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine. Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a collection of the best that have appeared, including: Why can't we eat green potatoes? Why do airliners suddenly plummet? Does a compass work in space? Why do all the local dogs howl at emergency sirens? How can a tree grow out of a chimney stack? Why do bruises go through a range of colours? Why is the sea blue inside caves? Many seemingly simple questions are actually very complex to answer. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. New Scientist's 'Last Word' celebrates all questions - the trivial, the idiosyncratic, the baffling and the strange. This selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.  edella | Jul 16, 2009 |  Taking its cue from the popular New Scientist column 'The last word', this book is a collection of the weird and wonderful questions that people have asked of other readers of the magazine. Like the other book 'Why don't penguin's feet freeze', this book takes its title from one of the odder enquiries in the text.Apparently is transpires that actually an awful lot of different things eat wasps, ranging from various creepy crawlies to birds and larger animals.Full of questions that will make you go 'I always wondered that...' and answers that will make you say 'oh, right, now I see!', this book is a little treasure trove of invention and interest! (  ) fieldri1 | May 8, 2009 | Based on NS's formerly brilliant "Last Word" column. Once upon a time the column very cleverly balanced bizarre questions with genuinely informative answers but it lost its way a long time ago. This book continues in the trivial vein, written now for entertainment not edification. (  ) neil9797 | Feb 17, 2009 | From the Q&A column in the magazine New Scientist, a book chock-full of scientists' answers to questions like "How fat would I have to be to become bulletproof?" and "Why does lager go flat faster than ale?" and "If I wanted to surf down a molten lava flow, what kind of surfboard would I need?" This book's approach is unique in that you get answers to each question from several different people, who don't always agree. For example, to sum up the opinions in the book on how fat you would have to be to become bulletproof: - the shockwave of bullets, even if they don't penetrate the skin, can be enough to kill (for example, with shot pellets); - a layer of fat two FEET thick might not be quite enough; - a man 6 feet tall, in order to have an inch thick layer of fat all over, would weigh about 1,425 lbs. Recommended. (  ) m.c.wade | Feb 12, 2009 | For 101 off the wall question you might have there in this book. Everywhere from "how much does a head weight" "how fat do you have to be to become bullet proof". Its in this book. So if you are ever look for an anwser that is CRAZY its in this book! Cortlan.P. (  ) okmliteracy | Feb 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743297261, Paperback)How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof?Why do people have eyebrows? Why do pineapples have spines? How much does a head weigh? What affects the color of earwax? How quickly could I turn into a fossil? Have you ever thought up a question so completely off-the-wall, so seemingly ridiculous, that you couldn't even find the courage to ask it? Maybe at the sports bar you were transported by the beauty of your beer to wonder, "How long could I live on beer alone?" Or, cycling through the park, you mused, "Did nature invent any wheels?" Or looking up at the night sky, you had a moment of angst, "What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared -- if it were vaporized or stolen by aliens?" Full of fun factlets, Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a runaway bestseller around the world. It celebrates the weird and wacky questions -- some trivial, some baffling, all unique -- and their multiple answers culled from "The Last Word," a long-running column in the internationally popular science magazine, New Scientist. Tackling the imponderables of everyday life, sparkling with humor, and bursting with delightful erudition, Does Anything Eat Wasps? is irresistibly entertaining and utterly engrossing. So, go on. Put away your lab coat and your pencil -- science is fun again. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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