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And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Free Press
March 2006
224 pages ISBN: 0743297261 Paperback
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How fat do you have to be to become
bulletproof?
- Why do people have
eyebrows?
- Why do pineapples have
spines?
- How much does a head
weigh?
- What affects the color of
earwax?
- How quickly could I turn into
a fossil?
Have
you ever thought up a question so completely off-the-wall,
so seemingly ridiculous, that you couldn't even find the
courage to ask it? Maybe at the sports bar you were
transported by the beauty of your beer to wonder, "How long
could I live on beer alone?" Or, cycling through the park,
you mused, "Did nature invent any wheels?" Or looking up at
the night sky, you had a moment of angst, "What would happen
if the moon suddenly disappeared -- if it were vaporized or
stolen by aliens?" Full of fun factlets,
Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a runaway bestseller
around the world. It celebrates the weird and wacky
questions -- some trivial, some baffling, all unique -- and
their multiple answers culled from "The Last Word," a
long-running column in the internationally popular science
magazine, New Scientist. Tackling the imponderables
of everyday life, sparkling with humor, and bursting with
delightful erudition, Does Anything Eat Wasps? is
irresistibly entertaining and utterly engrossing.
So, go on. Put away your lab coat and your
pencil -- science is fun again.
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