Things that make you go hmm...

You will not find any earth-shattering information or life-altering strategies in our newest book, but you will definitely be intrigued. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze: and 114 other questions is a fun collection of questions and answers that appeared in the pages of NewScientist Magazine (the British equivalent of Discover Magazine). The questions were submitted by readers, and the answers were supplied by a variety of scientists, industry experts, and 'those-in-the-know'. If you really want to have fun with this book you can try to guess the answer before reading the experts. There were a few in here I knew the answer to, and there was one - how do you strengthen conkers for a conker fight? - where I didn't even understand the question. There's even a response in here from a retired professor from UAF. I learned a lot of fun little snippets of information (why cookies go soft when they're stale, while bread gets hard - the velocity of a falling bullet - what the heck a 'conker' is). It's a good book to read out loud to your family at the dinner table. Have everyone try to guess the answer and whoever gets the most right doesn't have to wash the dishes that night (if your kids are too young to have taken any biology or chemistry classes this might be a bit mean. But hey, that's a life lesson in itself).