Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
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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? and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?, 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.
Author: New Scientist
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 172 g
Published: 2008, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Popular Science
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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? and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?, 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.
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions