- Paperback: 229 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192861999
- ISBN-13: 978-0192861993
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 534,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Why is the sky blue? Does it really get warmer when it snows? Why doesn't superglue stick to the inside of the tube? How is it possible to uncork a bottle by hitting the bottom? Can you drive through a rainbow? Should you walk or run in the rain? Why does soap make bubblebath collapse? The leading science weekly the New Scientist runs a popular column, The Last Word, which invites readers to write in with enquiries about everyday scientific phenomena. Providing a selection of the most interesting questions and answers from the column, this book covers a wide range of subjects, from plants and animals to the human body and gadgets and inventions. Fun and informative, it is fascinating reading for anyone who has ever asked themselves these kind of questions.
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New Scientist is the leading English language science weekly, selling over 120,000 copies through its UK and Australian editions. It now publishes on the Internet through its website Planet Science. The Last Word is one of the most popular columns in the magazine, receiving about 200 letters a week.
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This is a book to read a little at a time - full of fascinating, often amusing, science trivia. It has served as a wonderful bedtime book - it is also a good book to place in a guest bedroom.
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a random selection of readers' queries to New Scientist magazine with other readers' responses. I found numerous questions to which I had long lacked an answer: why do onions make your eyes water? why is a mirror image back to front but not upside down? And others that had never occurred to me but are fascinating: if the moon's just a bit of rock, how come it's perfectly round? if heat rises, how come it's coldest on top of a mountain?
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Answers to life's little (scientific) mysteries
15 Feb 2001
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New Scientist is one of the best science magazines available, and "The Last Word" is its most popular section.
As it says in the introduction, there are big mysteries and little mysteries. This book is devoted to the little mysteries, as celebrated in New Scientist magazine's "The Last Word" column, where readers send in their questions and other readers answer. So here you can find out things from why the sky is blue to why ice cubes have little bubbles toward the middle to why fingertips wrinkle when they've been in water too long. I was particularly interested to learn that hot water really does freeze faster than cold water (and why), something I had regarded as an urban legend. Interesting reading and probably a great bathroom book.
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A random selection of readers' questions to New Scientist magazine together with other readers' responses. I found a number of everyday queries to which I had long lacked an answer: why do onions make your eyes water? If heat rises how come it's cold on top of a mountain? Plus others which had never occurred to me before: why is a mirror image back to front but not upside down? If the moon's just a bit of rock how come it's perfectly round?
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