Good factual information presented well. Interesting and random questions asked and answered. Helpful input from the editor as well. I wish there was more of a closure or outro to surmise everything or something, just so it was less last question answered end of the book bye bye.

I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. My biggest problem with it wasn't the answers, but who was giving them. Who WAS giving them??!! Just random people, with the occasional expert thrown in on some questions. And multiple, sometimes conflicting, answers to questions. I can get both those things from the internet, thank you very much.

There was one question in here that I totally wanted to know the answer to: If a bee is transported far from its native hive, can it find its way back? Or can it join a new hive?
Had the same question about an ant that took a ride on my car last summer. HURRAH, AN ANSWER!

Very simple explanations; overall I'm disappointed in the execution and the format. I'd recommend anything by Dr. Joe Schwarz instead for real quality.

Funny and weird science questions with sometimes funny and weird answers. Great for a quick read.

It's the sort of book that's almost perfect for holiday. Not too heavy on the science front, but still enough to make you think about the various questions (and answers) that it poses.

Interesting, often funny. Left me wanting more, which can be a god thing in a book, but in this case reflected a basic insubstantiality. If I'd approached it in a different mood it may well have got 4 stars. *shrugs*

This is a science book with answers to trivial but somewhat intriguing questions. Some of the questions have 3 similar, very long, technical answers. Others have one which barely stands as a paragraph.

I got this book for Christmas 2007 and flicked through it a lot as a kid, but never sat down to read it until March 2018. Science is a constantly evolving issue and the advent of the internet has basically obsoleted these books (content and format), so I'm getting rid of them. That said, I've still only read this one despite having collected a fair few in the set, so I'm reading them before they go to charity.

I generally find certain types of questions interesting - humanities ones such as language accents, or space ones such as "what if the moon vanished". There weren't very many of those in this book to hold my interest and I don't feel as if the rest will have so many that will either.

I thought this was quite hard to follow at times: some of the explanations are a bit on the technical side for the general reader (and this sort of book is, after all, aimed at the general reader), some of the queries answered are far too trivial, and the american measuring system used doesn't help us Europeans understand what some answers are about

This is a nice collection of entertaining answers to some seriously strange questions. I enjoyed finding out about what eats wasps, and have subsequently decided to buy a goldfish. Nevertheless some of the terminology is a little bit intimidating for the generally curious, so a few more editorial explanations are definitely needed. However, if you are after some scientific trivia this still remains a reasonably good place to go. :)

Un libro que recopila preguntas de lectores que son respondidas por otros lectores (Seguro que les suena de algo  ). Debo reconocer que desconocía la sección “La última palabra” (The last word) de la revista New Scientist , pero me he quedado impresionado. Hay un segundo libro, aún no traducido, que compré en Florencia y que ya estoy terminando.

Y qué les puedo decir, estimados lectores. He devorado el libro. Me lo compré en el aeropuerto de Barajas cuando salía para Italia y me lo acabé casi casi en el avión. Es adictivo. Es fantástico. Es una gozada ver la colaboración entre los lectores, salpicada con comentarios humorísticos que arrancan muchas sonrisas. Es el foro CPI, si me permiten la comparación CPIcéntrica, con la diferencia de que lleva en marcha desde 1994.

Entre las muchas preguntas que podremos resolver están la que da título al libro: “¿Hay algo que coma avispas?”. El propio preguntante da una hipótesis: “Pájaros estúpidos”, pero la respuesta documentada de los lectores tiene mucha más miga. Hay mil preguntas más, muchas de las cuales han visto ustedes respondidas en blogs como CPI, MedTempus, Ocularis y otros: ¿Por qué los moretones cambian de color con el tiempo? ¿Qué debo hacer si quiero convertirme en fósil? Si tiro una piedra al mar en Menorca, ¿llegaría la ola a EE.UU.? ¿Cuántas especies viven dentro del cuerpo humano? ¿Por qué, si la rueda es tan útil, no hay animales que hayan desarrollado evolutivamente ruedas para desplazarse? Un auténtico montón de preguntas muy interesantes. Una que me encantó: “Dicen que la cerveza contiene un montón de nutrientes y vitaminas. ¿Cuánto tiempo podría una persona resistir alimentándose únicamente de cerveza?” Una de las respuestas: “Lo único que puedo decir es que tengo 39 años y sigo vivo”  . Son 100 preguntas en total.

Sólo puedo decirles que adoro este libro. Que me encanta, que me ha dado muchas ideas para escribir cosas interesantes y que estoy seguro, segurísimo de que a cualquiera con interés en la ciencia curiosa pero inútil (a veces) le fascinará.

Mi nota no puede ser otra: Imprescindible.

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Enjoyable. Informative. A decent bathroom book or coffee table occupant. Good to pick up, peruse, and learn something irrelevant but interesting enough for a pub quiz or discussion

Pretty funny in places and always interesting (if admittedly and openly pointless). A testament to the power of everyone to pull together and pool their irrelevant but deeply specific knowledge reservoirs. And I now know how fat I need to be if I want to be bulletproof.