Book Review: "Do Polar Bears Get Lonley?" by New Scientist

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by New Scientist
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Amazon Book Description

"Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of "New Scientist", the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of "Does Anything Eat Wasps?" (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?" (2006), this latest collection includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful answers never before seen in book form. As usual, the simplest questions often have the most complex answers - while some that seem the knottiest have very simple explanations. "New Scientist"'s 'Last Word' is regularly voted the magazine's most popular section as it celebrates all questions - the trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange. This all-new and eagerly awaited selection of the best again presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

A collection of science related questions submitted to the NewScientist website. The chapters as correlated to the topics on the website http://www.newscientist.com/lastword, which are:
Food and Drink; Domestic Science; Our Bodies; Feeling OK?; Plants and Animals; Our Weather, Our Planet, Our Universe; Troublesome Transport; Best of the Rest.
There were some interesting questions that were selected to be included in this publication and a nice way to gain some knowledge on subjects you may never have given much thought or have always wondered about. Some of the answers can be a bit contradictory as there is almost always often more than one contribution for an answer to the question posed. Nonetheless, it is a starting point for stimulative thought on scientific questions and was an enjoyable read.