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Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask

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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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New Scientist is a science magazine for everyone, young and old, amateur and professional. With a circulation approaching 160,000 and a worldwide readership of more than half a million, it is among the most popular of all popular science magazines.
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Cindy Figueiredo, July 24, 2008 (view all comments by Cindy Figueiredo)
This book is so much fun to read. I can only hope that I'll remember half the interesting stuff that I learned from reading it. I keep it in the car, to have it handy when I'm running around on appointments or waiting for the kids. Because each question, and it's answers, average only two pages in length, it's the perfect "short reader". I've already given it as a gift to someone, who has to buy her own copy because she loaned it to her son who doesn't want to give it back!
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tulegirlarts, September 3, 2006 (view all comments by tulegirlarts)
This book was a fantastic jump starter for my teenager to get more interested in school. He couldn't wait to tell other people all of the trivial things he was learning. He loved stumping people.
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9780743297264
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Scientist, New
Publisher:
Free Press
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New Scientist
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New Scientist
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Scientist New Scientist
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Scientist, Scientist New
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New Scientist
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New Scientist
Subject:
General
Subject:
Trivia
Subject:
Science
Subject:
Biology
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Form - Essays
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General Humor
Subject:
Questions & Answers
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REFERENCE / Trivia
Subject:
History - United States/Civil War
Subject:
Science Reference-General
Copyright:
2006
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
March 2006
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.44 x 5.5 in 7.14 oz
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