New Scientist

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/will-we-ever-speak-dolphin-ed-mick-ohare/

Following on from Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Can’t Elephants Jump?, here are 101 more questions asked by New Scientist readers with answers also supplied by New Scientist readers. There is a whole chapter on why one might want one’s martini to be shaken, not stirred, with accounts from readers of direct experimentation on the options. Otherwise lots of wholesome science stuff. (And no, we won’t ever speak Dolphin; they don’t really have language to the same level that we do.)… (meer)

Another book that doesn't really deliver on its title. I was expecting something slightly more philosophical on why the universe exists. Instead we are treated to a description of modern particle physics ...including the contribution of the Higgs particle and various other speculations but no real detail on why the Universe exists.
it's interesting enough, in its own way, but it's really cobbled together from a series of talks given at a New Scientist, Master Class "Mysteries of particle physics" and maybe that should have been the title of the book. Happy enough to give the book three stars because it certainly has some interesting chapters/articles. but it's just not true to title.… (meer)