The Last Word
- 238pages
- 9 heures de lecture
A selection of the most interesting questions and answers from the Last word column in the magazine, New scientist.
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Cette série aborde les questions les plus singulières et déroutantes que les gens se posent sur le monde qui les entoure. Des phénomènes naturels bizarres aux mystères quotidiens, chaque volume recueille des interrogations fascinantes de lecteurs. Des scientifiques experts et des profanes curieux collaborent pour découvrir les explications scientifiques derrière ces sujets merveilleux. C'est une lecture captivante pour quiconque aime découvrir les merveilles de la science à travers les questions qui nous viennent à l'esprit.
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The Last Word 2
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Why do boomerangs come back? Would parachutists be able to play a game of catch while falling? Why does grilled cheese go stringy? What would happen to a pint of beer in space? Why doesn't cling film cling to metal properly? Why does the wind blow in gusts? A follow-up to the highly successful The Last Word, this new paperback brings you more questions and answers from The New Scientist's popular column. Readers of the leading science weekly are invited to write in with enquiries about everyday scientific phenomena and other readers respond. Thisnew selection of the most interesting examples covers an enormous range of subjects from everyday household products, to plants, animals, the human body, gadgets, and our environment. This is a fun, fascinating, and enlightening read for anyone who asks themselves these questions.
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Does anything eat wasps? : and 101 other questions
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
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.
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Does Anything Eat Wasps
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
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.
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The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' column The New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers from its readers. For all those who relish its mixture of wit, insight and scientific curiosity - not to mention those who read and enjoyed Does Anything Eat Wasps?, the brilliantly successful previous collection - this new volume will be irresistible. Why Don't Penguin's Feet Freeze? includes recent answers never before published in book form, as well as old favourites from the column's early days. This bumper collection brings together the highlights of the 'Last Word' in another wise, weird and whacky compendium that is guaranteed to amaze, inform and delight.
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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The second New Scientist Christmas book from its million-selling series, which explores everything from why our hair turns grey to whether bumblebees really defy the laws of physics
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Pourquoi les manchots n'ont pas froid aux pieds ?
Et 111 autres questions stupides et passionnantes
- 195pages
- 7 heures de lecture
• 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.
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How to Fossilise Your Hamster
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Mick O'Hare and the New Scientist team try to answer scientific conundrums that can be answered by simple experiments.
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Why Can't Elephants Jump?
- 233pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until no one's looking? Read this brilliant new compilation to find out. This is popular science at its most absorbing and enjoyable. That is why the previous titles in the New Scientist series have been international bestsellers and sold over two million copies between them. Like Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005), Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006) and Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (2008), this is another wonderful collection of wise, witty and often surprising answers to a staggering range of science questions, from 'why is frozen milk yellow?' to 'what's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes?'.
Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new 'Last Word' collection, has the answers to these questions and many more. Seven years on from Does Anything Eat Wasps?, the New Scientist series still rides high in the bestseller lists, with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more stimulating or more enjoyable. Like Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, and Why Can't Elephants Jump?, this collection of wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling questions is guaranteed to delight.
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
And 130 More Science Questions Answers: More Questions and Answers from the Popular 'Last Word' Column
- 225pages
- 8 heures de lecture
The latest title in the bestselling 'Last Word' series from New Scientist magazine.
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Another classic bestseller from the million-selling New Scientist series.
