Warum fallen schlafenden Vögel nicht vom Baum? - Wunderbare Alltasrätsel - bk1202; Serie Piper Verlag; Hrg. Mick O´Hare; pocket_book; 2002
New Scientist Letzte Antwort Reihe
Diese Reihe widmet sich den ungewöhnlichsten und rätselhaftesten Fragen, die sich Menschen über die Welt stellen. Von bizarren Naturphänomenen bis hin zu alltäglichen Rätseln sammelt jeder Band faszinierende Leserfragen. Erfahrene Wissenschaftler und neugierige Laien tun sich zusammen, um die wissenschaftlichen Erklärungen für diese wundersamen Themen aufzudecken. Es ist eine fesselnde Lektüre für jeden, der die Wunder der Wissenschaft durch die Fragen entdecken möchte, die uns allen in den Sinn kommen.
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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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The second New Scientist Christmas book from its million-selling series, which explores everything from why our hair turns grey to whether bumblebees really defy the laws of physics
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Mick O'Hare, 1964 in Mirsfield/England geboren, ist Redakteur bei der Zeitschrift 'New Scientist' – der führenden englischen Wochenzeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Technik. Im Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag ist von ihm bereits erschienen 'Wie dick muss ich werden, um kugelsicher zu sein?', 'Wie man mit einem Schokoriegel die Lichtgeschwindigkeit misst', 'Wie man einen Wirbelsturm auslöst' und 'Können Elefanten hüpfen?'.
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