Why Don’t Penguins Feet Freeze? - Mick O’Hare (ed.)

A series of reader Q&As from New Scientist, this was a fairly entertaining, informative and brisk read. It concentrates largely on the trivial or bizarre – I had to laugh at the discussion of what becomes of the bullets that get fired up in the air at raucous street celebrations in the Middle East (hint – it’s not such a great idea).