Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?

And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works

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Amazing and intriguing questions and answers from the team behind the international phenomenon Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?

The popular-science magazine behind the runaway international bestsellers Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps? takes on another irresistible batch of the strange, silly, and mind-boggling questions that plague curious minds the world over:

  • Can pigeons sweat, can fish get thirsty, and can insects get fat?
  • Could a person commit the perfect murder by killing someone the day after receiving a full blood transfusion?
  • Is there a way to beat the odds of the lottery by using math?
  • How much mucus does a nose produce during the average cold?
  • If forced to eat parts of yourself to survive, which non-vital organs would be the most nutritious?

Culled from New Scientist’s popular “The Last Word” column and edited by Mick O’Hare, the author of How to Fossilize Your Hamster, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is guaranteed to amuse and amaze as much as it informs.

(And if a polar bear appears to be lonely, it probably means there wasn’t enough walrus for dinner.)

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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
1FOOD AND DRINK TWIN CHICKSUpon cracking open my breakfast boiled egg, I found a whole new egg inside. It was not a double-yolked egg, it was a double-egged egg--a completely new egg with a shell and yolk inside another. Can anybody explain it?Liam Spencer 
An egg within an egg is a very unusual occurrence. Normally, the production of a bird's egg starts with the release of the ovum from the ovary. It then travels down the oviduct, being wrapped in yolk, then albumen, then membranes, before it is finally encased in the shell and laid.

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"If you have ever wondered why hair turns grey, fingers get crinkled in the bath or if the Great Wall of China really is visible from space, Mick O’Hare has the answers."—CNN

"Extraordinary book…. Responsible for putting popular science back on its feet." —BBC Radio 5 Live

"Hold the answers to all the world’s little mysteries."—Evening Standard (London)

"At last, the mysteries of the world are explained… The book everyone is taking about."—Independent on Sunday (London)

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"Witty, unexpected and imaginative."—Daily Express (London)

"Fascinating things you never knew you wanted to know."—Daily Mirror (London)

Praise for the New Scientist series

Praise for How to Fossilize Your Hamster

"Mad science is back. Only here, it’s less evil and not just for kids. Eighty simple and charming experiments meant to be conducted in the comfort of one’s own home illustrate scientific principles in action."—Science News

"Forget graduate school. New Scientist… outlines how you can eat and drink your way to scientific discovery…. It’s a funny and very adult twist on the classic baking-soda volcano projects of our childhood."—Wired Magazine

Praise for Why Don’t Penguin’s Feet Freeze?

"If you have ever wondered why hair turns grey, fingers get crinkled in the bath or if the Great Wall of China really is visible from space, Mick O’Hare has the answers."—CNN

"Extraordinary book…. Responsible for putting popular science back on its feet." —BBC Radio 5 Live

"Hold the answers to all the world’s little mysteries."—Evening Standard (London)

"At last, the mysteries of the world are explained… The book everyone is taking about."—Independent on Sunday (London)

Praise for Does Anything Eat Wasps?

"Witty, unexpected and imaginative."—Daily Express (London)

"Fascinating things you never knew you wanted to know."—Daily Mirror (London)


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New Scientist is a science magazine for everyone, young and old, amateur and professional. With a worldwide readership of more than half a million, it is among the most popular of all popular-science magazines.

Mick O’ Hare is the production editor of New Scientist and the editor of the magazine’s previous international bestsellers Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? He lives in London.

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

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Henry Holt and Co.
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April 2009
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ISBN: 9780805089882
ISBN10: 0805089888
5 1/4 x 8 inches, 256 pages, Includes flip art throughout
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April 2009
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