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Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions
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Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask Paperback - 2006

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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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When, in 1994, New Scientist began publishing "The Last Word," the magazine's weekly column of everyday science questions and answers provided by readers, one of the editors asked how long we expected the column to run.

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  • Title Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
  • Author Manufactured by New Scientist
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 211
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, New York
  • Publication date March 28, 2006
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780743297264 / 0743297261
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.6 x 0.61 in (22.15 x 14.22 x 1.55 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Science, Biology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006041308
  • Dewey Decimal Code 502

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