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Also by Mick O'Hare:

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?, October 2006
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WHY DON'T PENGUINS' FEET FREEZE?
By: Mick O'Hare

And 114 Other Questions, More Questions and Answers from the Popular 'Last Word' Column

Profile Books Ltd
October 2006
On Sale: October 5, 2006
236 pages
ISBN: 1861978766
EAN: 9781861978769
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Does Anything Eat Wasps? was the surprise Christmas bestseller of 2005, and put the 'popular' back into popular science. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is a new selection of the best of the New Scientist's amazingly popular 'Last Word' column. Every week readers send in hundreds of questions in the hope that other readers will be able to answer them in the column. The result is a celebration of the trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange - popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

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