What Makes Flamingos Pink : A Colorful Collection of Q & A's for the Unquenchably Curious

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There's only one person with the answers to these questions and many more: Bill McLain, the internet's legendary "Answer Whiz."As Xerox's official Webmaster responsible for handling all the e-mail sent to the company website, McLain and his team respond to an astounding 750 - 1,000 messages daily. While most of the questions he receives are Xerox-related, every day scores of curious fact seekers write with questions ranging from useful ( What is the heat index?) to the bizarre (What was the world's largest typewriter?) to the downright comical, and everything in between.

In his second fact-filled collection, McLain, author of Do Fish Drink Water?, serves up a whole new round of real-life questions and answers that he has come across as Xerox's Webmaster. Surprising, funny, and endlessly fascinating, What Makes Flamingos Pink? traverses questions on subjects ranging from the animal kingdom to food, from inventions to disasters, from the human body to just plain far out. You'll learn why squirrels don't fall off telephones wires, why fingers and toes become pruney after a long bath, how seedless watermelons are made, and much more.

Featuring answers that are often as wacky as the questions that prompted them, as well as including lists of websites where readers can go to learn evem more, this is the ultimate cure for the unquenchable curious.

What Customers Say About What Makes Flamingos Pink : A Colorful Collection of Q & A's for the Unquenchably Curious:

Alex Trebek would be proud. Maybe the perfect bathroom book. Pages of fun, quick-read, worthless knowledge, short articles & stories that will amaze your friends.

Neat book -- lots of good Q and A's about a lot of subjects, just pick a page.

You can't put it down, & you get educated @ the same time. This is a wonderful, fun, & informative book. Enjoy. Highly recommended for all ages. I have sent it to a couple of friends, that have truely enjoyed it. They keep it in thier bathroom for easy & fun reading material.I hate to read, but this book makes reading fun.

In response to a question about teleportation, McLain discusses psychokinesis. All such studies have been found not be repeatable when appropriate controls were made.

No one has succeeded yet. James Randi has offered a million dollars to anyone who can show psychokinetic powers under controlled conditions.

I really enjoyed this book. I'm sorry, but this is simply not the case.

For more information on the Million Dollar Challenge, go to www.randi.org. It has fun facts, interesting stories, and hints on where to find information on the Internet.I do have to disagree with McLain on one of his facts.

McLain indicates that scientists are taking psychokinesis very seriously, and mentions favorably some research that found people could control the roll of an electronic dice with their minds.

I have also noticed things that make me wonder "What makes it do that." or "Why does that thing do that." Nearly all my questions were answered in this book. The book "What Makes Flamingos Pink." tells about facts and figures and events. I have also read the book, "Do Fish Drink Water." This is a book similar to "What Makes Flamingtos Pink," but I think that the book "Do Fish Drink Water" is actually a better book. The reason why I gave this book four stars is because it had interesting information, but the author (Bill McLain) sometimes gets off of the topic in the chapter. It tells some of the most strange events, and also some you may not have even heard of. I learned many things from reading this book.