Customer Reviews:
 I hope my children ask me these questions when they get older! January 3, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
A fascinating collection of questions that make you realise, apart from anything else, just how curious you really should be about the world around you, and yet how blase we become as we get older.
The questions range from the general interest (why do millipedes have so many legs? Why do our legs ache more two days after a long run?) to the more specific (How quickly could I turn into a fossil?), and the answers also vary from the enlightening and myth-busting (it turns out water does not run down the drain differently north and south of the equator) to the frankly too-scientific/mathematical.
In short it's a great book to dip in and out of, particularly if, like me, you have a young child who (you hope) some day will begin asking these curious questions.
 Excellent! December 9, 2006
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
I only occasionaly get the chance to sit down and read New Scientist, so it was great to catch up with this excellent book. I love the diversity of subjectrs tackled, and the quirky, slightly academic humour.
I kept it in the bathroom and read a few pages whenever having a bath, it was a treasure - I am looking forward to Why Penguins Do Not Freeze which I have just ordered.
If you are curious about the world around you, why Guiness is balck but the bubbles are white, (when they are made of guiness!) then this is the book for you.
Worth a butchers December 4, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
A worthy entertaining read, you can pick this book up and open at any point and read with interest. Many idiosyncratic questions that interested me and ones I wanted the answers to. I have purchased four as gifts for family. I am not an avid reader of science by no means but have a womanly curiosity about many things and seek out the answers. And yes I have always wondered why Guinness is black and the head always cream, why bruises change colour, why why, why, buy the book it's a worthy purchase
An Absolutely Fabulous & Funny Book `A must Read' November 6, 2006
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my daughter & flicked through before wrapping it as you do. Quite frankly I had to buy her another one, then I bought another & another & another...& it goes on! the reason ? I want everyone I know to have a copy to read from cover to cover & then to dip into as I just couldnt put it down, now I've read it so many times I could literally recite it backwards! It is just so FABULOUS & Highly Recommended
Not bad! August 14, 2006
9 out of 34 found this review helpful
Now - i'm not very good at science. Generally i wouldnt touvh anything to do with science with a bargepole .... well i've certainly steered very clear of new scientist over the year despite the attempts from one of my friends to convert my magazine choice from grazia to new scientist.
Anyway - i do rather like none fiction books and you do not need to have much understanding to gain a certain amount of pleasure from reading this book. True some sections of the book i did find a bit of a drag but and a couple of the entries left me completely baffled overall i found i a enjoyable read and definately worth buying whether you are an "occasional browser" or a "cover to cover in one sitting reader".
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