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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions

New Scientist

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), Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful questions and answers such as:
Why does garlic make your breath smell? How toothpaste makers get the stripes in toothpaste? Why do we get 'pins and needles'? Why are some people left-handed and other people right-handed? Can insects get fat? Do elephants sneeze? And do fish get thirsty? What causes cells to stick together in the human body rather than simply fall apart? And why are pears pear-shaped (and not apple-shaped)?

This eagerly awaited selection of the best once again presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • Publish Date: Sep 10th, 2019
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.00in - 0.70in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9781529309331
  • Categories: EssaysLife Sciences - Zoology - GeneralReference

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New Scientist, the world's leading science & technology weekly magazine, was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences".

The brand's mission is no different today - New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endevour and issues that affect us all, explaining why a development is significant as well as putting social and cultural context around it.

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