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

    By New Scientist

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    What time is it at the North Pole?

    What's the chemical formula for a human being?

    Why do boomerangs come back?

    Why do flying fish fly?

    Do the living really outnumber the dead?

    Why does lightning fork?

    Why does the end of a whip crack?

    Everyone has at one time or another thought up odd questions like these, questions that are strange, intriguing, maybe even impossible to answer. Making your morning omelet, perhaps you've wondered why most eggs are egg shaped. Or maybe, the last time you walked on the beach, you felt compelled to ask why the sea is salty. Watching Polly sit on her perch, have you ever marveled at how she stays there -- even when she's asleep? Well, the readers of New Scientist's wildly popular, long-running column "The Last Word" thought of these questions, too, and weren't afraid to ask them.

    Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is a brilliant collection of questions and answers for everyone who enjoyed the international, runaway bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? Guaranteed to amaze, inform, and delight with topics such as the human body, plants and animals, weird weather, and our wacky world, it'll stump you, enlighten you, entertain and amuse you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJun 5, 2007
    ISBN9781416546689
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    Reviews for Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

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    • 2/5
      I am not sure I like how this book reads. I do not read the New Scientist, which is a pereodical that the qusetions are posed in and answers sent to. I would have liked one definitive answer to each question rather than one answer, followed by another answer which says the prior answer is incorrect , followed by another 'humourous' answer.
    • 4/5
      Super scientific!
    • 3/5
      This compendium of questions taken from the columns of the New Scientist magazine cover all sorts of scientific topics in an engaging manner. A quick and easy read, with minimum scientific jargon, this book will entertain and educate its readers.
    • 4/5
      my 100th book since joining LT! ^_^i like trivia a lot, and i certainly picked up a lot of trivia from this book. but somehow, i seem to have not enjoyed it as much as i should have. maybe this book form (as opposed to the questions appearing originally in NewScientist magazine's Last Word column) just didnt push the right buttons for me.however, i applaud the idea behind the column. letting readers suggest answers to the questions have encouraged a lot of physical and thought experimentation among the contributors. i think that was a very cool achievement!
    • 3/5
      Pretty much like any of the other New Scientist books: full of information, some of it more interesting to me, some of it less. Some of the chosen answers are quite funny, and quite a few of the questions are quite weird. Some of the answers are very similar to principles in the other books, but for the most part there's a good spread of different information here. Well categorised, too: a section on human bodies, on food, on domestic science...

      Also noticed that it works as a flipbook with a fishing penguin. Ha.
    • 3/5
      Another eclectic mix of questions with their equally odd mix of answers.My favourite and a good illustration of what the book does is a question in a letter to New Scientist some years ago about hot water freezing quicker than cold water. This is now understood (isn) and it the way the world actually works. We see the full range of responses to the issue being raised and a little bit of history about how it was investigated. Fascinating stuff.
    • 5/5
      I'm not a scientist at all. The only reason I liked science at school was because it occasionally gave me the chance to spell long and unpronouncable words. Like its predecessor, Does Anything Eat Wasps, I found this to be really interesting and enjoyable. The format of the book works especially well for somebody like me who has minimal knowledge of most areas of science; it's in the form of questions and answers posted by members of the public, so the answers range from impenetrable professorial tomes to homework answers written by nine-year-olds. It's gross in places, genuinely baffling in others, but I think I may even have learnt something from reading this. Hooray!
    • 1/5

      Five out of ten.

      Interesting scientific questions answered.

    • 2/5
      Science strives ever onwards in search of the answers to the big questions. Is there a grand unifying theory (GUT) of everything, is the Higgs Boson the key to this theory etc.But day to day the questions that people want to know the answers to are things like 'why is the sky blue?' and 'does hot water freeze more quickly than cold water?'.And this is the book to find answers to lots of questions that you really want to know. The questions and answers all come from a column called 'The last word' in the New Scientist magazine, and this book is a follow up to an earlier book in a very similar vein.Interesting and funny.
    • 2/5
      I am not sure I like how this book reads. I do not read the New Scientist, which is a pereodical that the qusetions are posed in and answers sent to. I would have liked one definitive answer to each question rather than one answer, followed by another answer which says the prior answer is incorrect , followed by another 'humourous' answer.
    • 4/5
      A random bunch of questions sent to New Scientist's Last Word column. Most succesful, I think, when the answers are a combination of serious science and humour. Some of the answers were way too hard for me to follow, having never been very strong, though interested, in physics or chemistry. Guaranteed to deliver some fresh insights, be it about the effect of mercury on airplanes (apparently they have to decommission the whole plane if there's a spillage) or about common myths (the Great Wall of China is *not* visible from the Moon!). I might try the follow-up, which is all about experiments you can try at home: cloning sheep and that sort of thing, I assume ;-)
    • 3/5
      Great for dipping into. Funny and entertaining. Pick up lots of bizzar facts to impress your friends with!
    • 5/5
      Covering a wide variety of topics, this is a great book for trivia hounds. Entertaining and informative it also points at the knowledge of people and the inquisivness of people.Amusing and well worth dipping into.