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" Why can't we use adrenaline or some kind of stimulant to wake people out of comas? Is there something physically stopping it, or is it just too dangerous?"
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"What does the other side of my belly button look like?"
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"Supposing I have an unfair coin (not 50/50), but don't know the probability of it landing on heads or tails, is there a standard formula/method for how many flips I should make before assuming that the distribution is about right?"
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"Considering that the internet is a web of multiple systems, can there be a single event that completely brings it down?"
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"Am I using muscles to keep my eyelids open or to keep them closed or both?"
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"Are there any chemicals so deadly a mere drop on skin could kill?"
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"How do scientists studying antimatter MAKE the antimatter they study if all their tools are composed of regular matter?"
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"Sometimes when we rub our eyes too hard you lose your vision for a second and then it comes back gradually. Why is that?"
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"How do animals like whales not get the bends when breaching at high speeds from the depths?"
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"Does penis size come from your mother’s side?"
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"Why do you not feel hungry after not eating for a long time?"
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"Why have so few people died of COVID-19 in Germany (so far)?"
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"When does a mushroom die? When it's picked? When it's packaged? Refrigerated? Sliced? Digested?"
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"How do super storms like Hurricane Dorian affect marine life as the storm travels through the area? Do they affect deep sea creatures?"
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"Dogs can smell COVID infections in patients, with as much accuracy as a PCR test. What's stopping us from building a machine that 'smells' the patients and detects it as well, if not better, than a dog?"
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"When eyeballs are donated by an organ donor, does the left eyeball have to be put in the left eye socket of the new body, and vice versa?"
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"Why is there no tick prevention for humans? You can buy prevention for dogs that lasts for months without reapplication, but for humans the best we can do is a bug spray that sometimes works."
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"If you cut entirely through the base of a tree but somehow managed to keep the tree itself perfectly balanced on the stump, would the tree “re-bond” to the stump or is this a tree death penalty?"
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"Whats the difference between me thinking about moving my arm and actually moving my arm? Or thinking a word and actually saying it?"
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"Does writing by hand have positive cognitive effects that cannot be replicated by typing?"
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"How deep is the Sahara deserts sand, and what's at the bottom of the sand?"
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"How come, when we rub our eyes hard enough we see those weird colors and patterns?"
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"Megalodon is often depicted as an enlarged Great a White Shark (both in holleywood and in scientific media). But is this at all accurate? What did It most likely look like?"
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"In the U.S., if the polio vaccination rate was the same as COVID-19, would we still have polio?"
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"Does sleeping for longer durations than physically needed lead to a sleep 'credit'?"
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"Can other animals be allergic to us?"
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"Where in your body does your food turn brown?"
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"How long would it take after a vaccine for COVID-19 is approved for use would it take to make 250 Million doses and give it to Americans?"
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"The moon rotates around its own axis at the same speed as its rotation around earth, which is why we don't see the "dark side". Is this purely coincidental or not?"
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"What exactly does the cold virus do to me to make me so weak?"
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"Will we ever run out of music? Is there a finite number of notes and ways to put the notes together such that eventually it will be hard or impossible to create a unique sound?"
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"Chemically, why was the Fat Man more powerful than the Little Boy? (The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)"
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"Why is wifi perfectly safe and why is microwave radiation capable of heating food?"
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"Does Acid Rain still happen in the United States? I haven’t heard anything about it in decades."
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"I imagine seals, dolphins and other sea mammals drink seawater, how good are their kidneys?"
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"Can you determine the cause of a headache from the region of the head it is affecting?"
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"If darker skin colors absorb more heat energy and have a higher resistance to cancer then why did humans who live in snowy/colder climates develop fare skin?"
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"Do galaxies form around supermassive black holes, or do supermassive black holes form in the center of galaxies?"
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"Why can we understand a language but not speak it?"
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"Can you really trigger an avalanche by screaming really loud while in snowy mountains?"
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"Can fish fart? If so, is it similiar to how mammals fart?"
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"Scientists created a “radioactive powered diamond battery” that can last up to 28,000 years. What is actually going on here?"
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"In 1899 "Mile-a-Minute" Charles Murphy set a bicycle world record of 60 mph by riding behind a train to reduce drag, would this approach work for human runners as well to break the elusive 30 mph threshold?"
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"Why do those with Down syndrome have similarly shaped faces?"
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"Do oceans get roughly homogeneous rainfall, or are parts of Earth's oceans basically deserts or rainforests?"
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"If you were to sky-dive in the rain, would water hit your stomach, back, or both?"
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"For whales and dolphins can water "Go down the wrong pipe" and make them choke like with humans?"
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"Do bees socialize with bees from other hives?"
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"What color is the dress? Why do some people see blue and black and some people see gold and white when looking at a single image of a dress?"
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"If you were a human floating towards the sun, at what distance from the sun would you feel an Earth-like temperature?"
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"How did the Great Wall of China affect the region's animal populations? Were there measures in place to allow migration of animals from one side to another?"
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"What's happening in our brains when we're trying to remember something?"
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"Why does the Moon's gravity cause tides on earth but the Sun's gravity doesn't?"
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"Why are microwave ovens made of metal but we can't put metal in them?"
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"Why isn't the human body comfortable at 98.6 degrees if that's our internal temperature?"
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"Do organs ever get re-donated?"
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"Are genitalia sexualized differently in cultures where standards of clothing differ greatly from Western standards?"
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"What is a birth mark and why do so many people have them?"
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"Why are Garlic and Onions Poisonous to Dogs and Cats and Not To Humans?"
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"Does the human stomach digest food as a batch process, or in a continuous feed to the rest of the digestive tract?"
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"Is it possible to suffer permanent damage if a part of your body "falls asleep" for long enough?"
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"If someone asks me 'how many apples are on the table', and I say 'five', am I counting them quickly in my head or do I remember what five apples look like?"
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"When someone has cancer they typically lose a lot of weight. Is this due to an inability to eat due to nausea or is there something about fighting cancer that is metabolically expensive?"
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"Is it possible that someone can have a weak enough immune system that the defective virus in a vaccine can turn into the full fledge virus?"
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"Why can't we reproduce the sound of very old violins like Stradivariuses? Why are they so unique in sound and why can't we analyze the different properties of the wood to replicate it?"
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"How do the Chinese send signals back to earth from the dark side of the moon if it is tidally locked?"
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"Happy Pi Day everyone!"
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"Could a modern day human survive and thrive in Earth 65 million years ago?"
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"What stoppped the spanish flu?"
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"AskScience AMA Series: I'm Emily Calandrelli, I have 4 degrees in science and engineering and I'm the host and co-Executive Producer of Emily's Wonder Lab on NETFLIX - AMA!"
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"What do swordfish use their sword for?"
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"Is it possible to have steam hot enough to start a fire?"
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"Could an iPod ever successfully shuffle an album in the correct order? What are the odds of this?"
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"Why can't we see all of the black dots simultaneously on this illusion?"
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"If there was a tank that could hold 10000 tons of water and had a finger - width hole at the bottom and you put your finger on/in the hole, would the water not drain or push your finger out?"
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"Does Mars have caves and if we discover a large enough cave system on Mars, how deep would we need to go to reach a hospitable temperature?"
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"What keeps wi-fi waves from traveling more than a few hundred feet or so, what stops them from going forever?"
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"A chicken egg is 40% calcium. How do chickens source enough calcium to make 1-2 eggs per day?"
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"What happens to fish that die near the poles?"
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"Why do sunburns seem to "radiate" heat?"
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"We have nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers. Why are there not nuclear powered spacecraft?"
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"Would a taller person have higher chances of a developping cancer, because they would have more cells and therefore more cell divisions that could go wrong ?"
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"If an ant was the size of a human, would it still be able to lift 10x it’s body weight?"
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"If 2 objects are traveling at 0.5 the speed of light relative to some 3rd object but in opposite directions, would each perceive the other as going the speed of light? What about 0.6 times to speed of light?"
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"How far do you have to go beneath the ocean floor before the earth becomes dry again?"
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"Do caterpillars need to become butterflies? Could one go it's entire life as a caterpillar without changing?"
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"Is there a limit on how long a power cord can be?"
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"Duck fat melts at 57 degrees Fahrenheit. So on a 90 degree day, is a living duck's fat just... sloshing around?"
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"What happens if you let a chess AI play itself? Is it just 50-50?"
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"Has the mass use of hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the risk of superbugs?"
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"Why does every human has a unqiue voice, and how come voice artists are able to replicate other's voice so authentically?"
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"When the sun goes red giant, will any planets or their moons be in the habitable zone? Will Titan?"
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"Why can our eyes precisely lock onto objects, but can't smoothly scroll across a landscape?"
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"A study today showed Covid antibodies drop off quickly (70% in 2-3 months). But don't all antibodies drop off quickly? Isn't this normal?"
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"I have a theory: If there is an infinite amount of negative numbers and there is an infinite amount of positive numbers then the total amount of numbers would be odd. Because 0 is in the center. For every positive number there is an negative counterpart. Am I right? Can we prove this with math?"
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"Has it been scientifically proven that Nuclear Fusion is actually a possibility and not a 'golden egg goose chase'?"
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"Humans seem to have a universally visceral reaction of disgust when seeing most insects and spiders. Do other animal species have this same reaction?"
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"If a pregnant woman has cancer, is it possible for the cancer to spread to the fetus?"
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"If the Oxford vaccine targets Covid-19's protein spike and the Moderna vaccine targets its RNA, theoretically could we get more protection by getting both vaccines?"
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"Is it a coincidence that all elements are present on Earth?"
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