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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works

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DO POLAR BEARS GET LONELY? is the latest offering of oddball questions and their equally fascinating answers from the English weekly NEW SCIENTIST. Drawn from actual questions sent into the magazine's 'Last Word' columnist, DO POLAR BEARS GET LONELY? will be welcomed by trivia buffs and Renaissance men/women alike.

Editor Mick O'Hare divided the 100-odd questions into chapters covering 'Food and Drink,' 'Domestic Science,' 'Our Bodies,' 'Plants and Animals' and so on. Each question is posed as received and then followed by one or more replies from other readers, some of whom are educators.

Paging through the book is a delight. Did you ever wonder why cooked food tastes different after it cools? Have you ever pondered why it's easy to put on the pounds as you age and even harder to take off that weight? Are you wondering if your mom was right in warning you about cracking your knuckles? How come it's so easy to balance on a moving bike but almost impossible to stay upright when you stop? As Mr. Spock would say: "Fascinating!"

Like previous NEW SCIENTIST Q&A books, DO POLAR BEARS GET LONELY? is both informative and FUN. Recommended for all lovers of information.

I found this book to be a thoroughly enjoyable read filled with answers to questions you always wondered about. One part of a lovely set of books that i highly recommend to anyone who searches for answers to some rather unusual questions :). Enjoy.

A series of short Q&A from the well-known NEW SCIENTIST Magazine column. These are fascinating, well researched and a good book to read in little bits & pieces. Enjoyable and fun science trivia. Some of the questions are wierd and strange, but then the answers are fun. Good book for the "reading room", the bus, train, etc.