Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other Questions

Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other QuestionsEvery 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

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