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Wie dick muss ich werden, um kugelsicher zu sein?: 101 Antworten auf Fragen, die uns alle beschäftigen (2005)

von New Scientist, Mick O'Hare (Herausgeber)

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Reihen: New Scientist's readers (1), New Scientist: The Last Word (3)

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How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine. Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a collection of the best that have appeared, including: Why can't we eat green potatoes? Why do airliners suddenly plummet? Does a compass work in space? Why do all the local dogs howl at emergency sirens? How can a tree grow out of a chimney stack? Why do bruises go through a range of colours? Why is the sea blue inside caves? Many seemingly simple questions are actually very complex to answer. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. New Scientist's 'Last Word' celebrates all questions - the trivial, the idiosyncratic, the baffling and the strange. This selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.… (mehr)
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  archivomorero | Jun 27, 2022 |
Un libro que recopila preguntas de lectores que son respondidas por otros lectores (Seguro que les suena de algo ). Debo reconocer que desconocía la sección “La última palabra” (The last word) de la revista New Scientist , pero me he quedado impresionado. Hay un segundo libro, aún no traducido, que compré en Florencia y que ya estoy terminando.
Y qué les puedo decir, estimados lectores. He devorado el libro. Me lo compré en el aeropuerto de Barajas cuando salía para Italia y me lo acabé casi casi en el avión. Es adictivo. Es fantástico. Es una gozada ver la colaboración entre los lectores, salpicada con comentarios humorísticos que arrancan muchas sonrisas. Es el foro CPI, si me permiten la comparación CPIcéntrica, con la diferencia de que lleva en marcha desde 1994.
Entre las muchas preguntas que podremos resolver están la que da título al libro: “¿Hay algo que coma avispas?”. El propio preguntante da una hipótesis: “Pájaros estúpidos”, pero la respuesta documentada de los lectores tiene mucha más miga. Hay mil preguntas más, muchas de las cuales han visto ustedes respondidas en blogs como CPI, MedTempus, Ocularis y otros: ¿Por qué los moretones cambian de color con el tiempo? ¿Qué debo hacer si quiero convertirme en fósil? Si tiro una piedra al mar en Menorca, ¿llegaría la ola a EE.UU.? ¿Cuántas especies viven dentro del cuerpo humano? ¿Por qué, si la rueda es tan útil, no hay animales que hayan desarrollado evolutivamente ruedas para desplazarse? Un auténtico montón de preguntas muy interesantes. Una que me encantó: “Dicen que la cerveza contiene un montón de nutrientes y vitaminas. ¿Cuánto tiempo podría una persona resistir alimentándose únicamente de cerveza?” Una de las respuestas: “Lo único que puedo decir es que tengo 39 años y sigo vivo” . Son 100 preguntas en total.
Sólo puedo decirles que adoro este libro. Que me encanta, que me ha dado muchas ideas para escribir cosas interesantes y que estoy seguro, segurísimo de que a cualquiera con interés en la ciencia curiosa pero inútil (a veces) le fascinará.
Mi nota no puede ser otra: Imprescindible. ( )
  Remocpi | Apr 22, 2020 |
Indeholder "Introduction", "1. Our bodies", " Contusion confusion", " Congener congeniality", " Poison pen", " High brow", " Life in a glass", " Blubber bullets", " Fossil record", " Delayed reaction", " The sandman cometh", " Growth areas", " Waxing lyrical", " Dead end", " Head trauma", " Raising an army", " Does my bum...?", " Mr Blobby", " Skin creep", " What goes in...", " Natal knots", " Thunk!", " Bodily breeding", " Google-eyed", "2. Plants and animals", " Chorus line", " Fly, fly away", " Living bath", " Siren screams", " Shell shock", " Living on stone", " Toxic tatties", " Mole holes", " Walking tall", " Who needs nine lives?", " Don't bee home late", " Vicious fruit", " Flying V", " Dem bones", " In the dock", " A sting in the mouth", "3. Domestic science", " Bluto strikes back", " Beer orders", " Spectral images", " Whisking disaster", " Concerned consumer", " Pickled poser", " Dunking dumplings", " Spice attack", " Rubber horror", " Citric secret", " The black stuff?", " Light bite", " Cream on", " Honey monster", " Gurgle time", " Changing tastes", " Curious cuppa", " Indestructible wine", " A long drink", " Shock value", " Honey, I'm bendy", " Grey matter", " Heated hop", "4. Our universe", " Planet pinball", " Which way to turn?", " Turn left at Mars", " No more moon", " Low-gravity lager", " Gnab gib", "5. Our planet", " Dump it in the mantle", " Water, water...", " Hidden depths", " Concrete jungle", " Seasonal shift", " Lava wave", " Coast to coast", " Pingu's pleasure", " Shrinking world", " Balance of power", " Wave goodbye", "6. Weird weather", " No-ball snow", " Which way, Captain?", " Ice art", " Heavy weather", " Heavy or light", " Forest of fear", " Knowing your dews", "7. Troublesome transport", " Wrap up well", " Lighting up", " Pre-inventing the wheel", " Sea legs", " Titanic explosions", " Hail the ale", " Tread mills", " Ship shifting", " Pane barrier", " Fasten seatbelts", "8. Best of the rest", " Family line", " Cold surface", " Killer chemical", " Pipe dreams", " Received pronunciation", " War nuts", "Index".

En masse spørgsmål om ting, man kan undre sig over. Fx hvad første verdenskrig havde at gøre med hestekastanjer og hvor mange grønne kartofler man kan spise før man dør af det. ( )
  bnielsen | Dec 28, 2016 |
I've had a couple of these New Scientist compilations but I have to say, this first one is still my favourite. Like the others in the 'series' it is a collection of letters from the magazine's brilliant 'Last Words' page, where questions can be submitted for other readers to answer. These questions - and their answers - can be brilliant, serious, hilarious or pithy by turn.

Have you, for example, ever wondered how frost makes those pretty patterns on your window? Or why you feel more pain two days after exercising than you do the first day? Perhaps you've pondered why dark drinks give you a worse hangover than clear ones, or idly considered how long a head can still be said to be 'alive' after it is chopped off? The answers are all here! A brilliant little book for idling away an hour or two... ( )
  elliepotten | Jun 18, 2011 |
Taking its cue from the popular New Scientist column 'The last word', this book is a collection of the weird and wonderful questions that people have asked of other readers of the magazine. Like the other book 'Why don't penguin's feet freeze', this book takes its title from one of the odder enquiries in the text.Apparently is transpires that actually an awful lot of different things eat wasps, ranging from various creepy crawlies to birds and larger animals.Full of questions that will make you go 'I always wondered that...' and answers that will make you say 'oh, right, now I see!', this book is a little treasure trove of invention and interest! ( )
  fieldri1 | May 8, 2009 |
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How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine. Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a collection of the best that have appeared, including: Why can't we eat green potatoes? Why do airliners suddenly plummet? Does a compass work in space? Why do all the local dogs howl at emergency sirens? How can a tree grow out of a chimney stack? Why do bruises go through a range of colours? Why is the sea blue inside caves? Many seemingly simple questions are actually very complex to answer. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. New Scientist's 'Last Word' celebrates all questions - the trivial, the idiosyncratic, the baffling and the strange. This selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

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