Non-freezing penguin feet and other oddities explained, Especially for Dan... Options

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LONDON (Reuters) - If you have ever wondered why hair turns grey, fingers get crinkled in the bath or if the Great Wall of China really is visible from space, Mick O'Hare has the answers.

He knows why left-handers are at greater risk of accidents, how ants manage to survive in the microwave and that, despite what mothers may have said, there is no connection between being cold and having one.

O'Hare is not a genius or a mad scientist but the editor of a new book called "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?" which provides answers to that perplexing and unusual question and 114 others.

"It is kind of science miscellany," he told Reuters.

The book is a latest in a series based on questions and answers, supplied by readers, which appear in a column in the weekly magazine New Scientist.

"We just took the best questions and answers that appeared in the magazine and turned them into a book," O'Hare, the production editor at the magazine, added.

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I remember Dan saying his Dad gets the New Scientist, so perhaps he already has all the questions and their answers and doesn't need the book. Or maybe he's already got a couple of the older editions? I dunno, but it looks like a good Xmas present so I'll be keeping my eye on this.