Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist

...possible. So does anything eat those annoying little wasps? Well I was certainly surprised by some of the responses to this question! One answer that really caught my eye involved a certain common fish?!? I had to re-read it to make sure that I had read correctly. As it turned out I had, and the answer was as unlikely as it seemed at first glance. Camels are strange animals, and apart from looking quite unique and having a reputation for spitting ...
...it lasts for ages. Why? Does it just depend on the type of cloud that it falls from, or are there other explanations? NASA and other space agencies seem to be able to (mostly) navigate successfully outside of Earth’s atmosphere. How exactly? Its not like there are signposts up there, and compasses can’t exactly be of much help either. And as for stopping someone to ask for help… Apparently, hopefully without giving too much away, it has something ...

freeridemtber 07.07.2007 (11.07.2007) · Read full review
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Review of Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist

~~ Why I bought this book ~~ Many years ago, when I was at Uni, I used to subscribe to New Scientist. There was a general consensus of opinion that it was the right thing to read, and I'm afraid to say that I went along with the flow. I was doing a Science degree, but I have to say that I found some of the articles rather tricky to understand, especially the ones based on physics, which I'm afraid baffles me. The one part of the New Scientist magazine ...
...was basically a reader's column of science questions that they would like answering. They were about absolutely anything, and a variety of people from scientists to non scientist used to try and answer them When I saw this book in Waterstones, it was on offer. I was immediately struck by the title. It is a question I have asked "does anything eat wasps? along with the next obvious question "why would they bother?" I then saw the New Scientist logo ...

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Review of Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist

Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions, is a recent publication (2005) which is composed of questions and answers, both of which have been submitted by readers of the popular science magazine 'New Scientist'. I came across this book after being sucked in by the interesting and obscure title. I was further drawn in when I realized the association with the New Scientist, a magazine, which as a research student, I often read and enjoy. Sometimes ...
...what I thought. Does Anything Eat Wasps? is divided into a number of sections, for example 'plants and animals', 'our planet' , 'domestic science' and 'Best of the Rest'. Each section contains a number of questions which were written in by readers of New Scientist in the past few years. There's no way you will know the answers to the majority of these questions, in fact it's unlikely that you have even thought up these questions yourself. Other readers ...

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Review of Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist

Was bought this at Christmas - after buying it for my brother and then having a cheeky look at it, I kicked up a big fuss and hey presto, my fiancee buys it for me! All you really need to know is that the New Scientist has a section at the bag of the magazine where readers write in with a question and then the follwoing forthnight/month readers reply with the answers. The New Scientist has decided to collaborate the best of the questions and answers ...
...The book takes it's name from one of the questions - "Does anything eat wasps?". The replies are interesting enough and include the likes of various birds and toads that gobble up these insects that have no discernible point in existing. The book starts off with some excellent questions that you probably never would think of but would love to know the answer now that someone else has asked - e.g. What would happen, other than the tides being affected, ...

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Review of Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist