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The New Scientist - Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?
This is the latest 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? - the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller - this new collection includes recent answers never before published in book form, and also old favourites from the column's early days. Yet again, many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers. And some that seem difficult ...
Course No. 1295 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Steven Pollock University of Colorado at Boulder Ph.D., Stanford University 1. The Great Ideas of Classical Physics 2. Describing Motion—A Break from Aristotle
Bastian, a schoolboy, embarks on a wild adventure when he enters a magical world, a doomed land filled with dragons, giants, and monsters, and risks his life to save this land by going on a very dangerous quest.
It is the tale of a princess who is cursed by a mean, jealous, witch so that she has no gravity. The book is full of puns, so MacDonald makes much both of her weightlessness, and the lack of gravity in her character. Naturally her parents are upset and try to have her cured, but to no avail (although the efforts of a couple of Chinese philosophers to provide a cure are rendered amusingly). However the Princess is quite happy with her "light" state (of course it is in her nature to be always happy).
