Why Dont Penguins Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers answers to the questions in the Last Word column of New Scientist the worlds 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 columns early days. Yet again many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. New Scientists Last Word is regularly voted the magazines most popular section as it celebrates all questions - the trivial idiosyncratic baffling and strange. This new selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.