Why do birds sing at dawn? What鈥檚 the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly awaited new Last Word collection, has the answers to these questions and many more.
Each week the Last Word column in the magazine provides a dazzling stream of scientific questions, attracting witty, well-informed and wildly surprising answers from its readers around the world.
Now with more questions than ever, this latest brilliant addition to the number one bestselling series will fascinate Last Word fans and new readers alike.
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Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? follows on from previous Last Word collections Why Are Orangutans Orange? and Why Can鈥檛 Elephants Jump? as well as previous number one bestselling volumes: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, Why Don鈥檛 Penguins鈥� Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps?
Buy your copy of Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? now 鈥� available in all good UK book stores and
Praise for New Scientist鈥榮 Last Word books:
鈥淎 fascinating mix of the baffling, ridiculous and trivial鈥� answers the scientific questions you never got round to asking鈥� Daily Express
鈥淭he answers to life鈥檚 most perplexing questions鈥� at last, the mysteries of the world are explained鈥� Independent on Sunday
About the author
Mick O鈥橦are wears one hat as production editor for New Scientist and another as editor of the Last Word column of questions and answers at the back of the weekly magazine.
Mick edited Profile鈥檚 recent bestselling books Why Are Orangutans Orange?, Why Can鈥檛 Elephants Jump?, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don鈥檛 Penguins鈥� Feet Freeze? (which received a Nielsen Gold Book for selling more than 500,000 copies of the UK edition), as well as the related books How to Fossilise your Hamster and How to Make a Tornado.
Mick joined New Scientist 20 years ago after being the production editor for Autosport. Because you can take the boy out of the north but you can鈥檛 take the north out of the boy, he freelances as a rugby league writer and also edits sports books. More importantly, he is a lifelong supporter of Huddersfield Rugby League Club.
He has a geology degree but retains a healthy disregard for mineralogy.