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- Why are so many people allergic to peanuts?
- Why are our eyes able to quickly adjust to brightly lit environments but are much slower to adjust to dark environments?
- Are any cultures known that did not use fire at the time of first contact?
- Do plants die of old age?
- Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology
- Is there any proof that 'attachment' styles of parenting lead to better adjusted and happier children?
- How do people from completely different sides of the same country pick up different accents? And how do people pick up an accent to begin with?
- Planets can have rings. Can stars have the same sort of rings?
- How much force would you need to launch something around the size of a man around the world using only mechanical power like a trebuchet or catapult?
- Can a solar eclipse really blind you?
- What is a *truly random* number?
- Why can't stable orbits exist in more than 3 dimensional space?
- Does the size of a bucket (same surface area on top as bottom) affect the HEIGHT of rain that will fall into each bucket?
- Why solar sails work but EM Drive validity is in doubt?
- If we have a blind spot in the center of our vision from our optical nerve, how come when I close one eye I don't see a "hole" in my vision?
- Are there any plants that contain cannabinoids other than the Cannabis family and Radula marginata?
- How long would it take for the tidal force from the sun to tidally lock the earth in its orbit, given the sun stays in the state it is now?
- Could one perform a gravitational slingshot around a black hole? How effective would it be (if yes)?
- Are there any proven, long-term effects on children whose mothers drank alcohol while breastfeeding?
- Why does Benadryl make you drowsy?
- How do the "1's and 0's" transmitted by a radio signal tell the speaker how to move in order to play a song on the radio?
- How different would a universe be if it was made exactly like the one we live in, except that every proton is replaced with an antiproton, every neutron with an antineutron, and every electron with a positron?
- Could you make guitar strings out of carbon nanotubes?
| Why are so many people allergic to peanuts? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 07:34 PM PDT Peanut allergies seem to be incredibly prevalent. Why are so many people allergic to peanuts and not other foods? [link] [comments]  |
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| Are any cultures known that did not use fire at the time of first contact? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 01:19 PM PDT |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2017 05:17 AM PDT Given enough nutrients, water, space to grow and a source of light for photosynthesis, and ignoring any potential diseases or natural disasters, could any plant - not specifically plants that are known to have survived for long periods of time like Weltwitschias or that aspen tree(s) - live forever? [link] [comments]  |
| Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Posted: 19 Jul 2017 08:07 AM PDT Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...". Asking Questions: Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists. Answering Questions: Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience. If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here. Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2017 10:28 PM PDT Like many aspects of parenting I find that the proof is heavily reliant on self reporting/ anecdotes, and I was curious as to whether there was any empirical proof that privileges one style over another? [link] [comments]  |
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| Planets can have rings. Can stars have the same sort of rings? Posted: 19 Jul 2017 05:38 AM PDT I don't think Sol's asteroid belt would count as a ring because, I assume, it's not nearly as dense as the rings around Saturn. Can a star even have a ring so dense as to be very visible? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
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| Can a solar eclipse really blind you? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 03:35 PM PDT I was always told growing up that solar eclipses can blind you and never look at one. With the eclipse coming to the US in a month, I was curious if it is actually possible to be blinded, or if it was safe to look at one with the naked eyes. Thanks everyone! [link] [comments]  |
| What is a *truly random* number? Posted: 19 Jul 2017 07:36 AM PDT So I had an MBA Operations Research assignment a few years ago, and I can't stop thinking about it. We used the RAND function in Excel to simulate a data set. I learned that these numbers were only pseudo-random and I wanted to know why - what's the difference? It was explained that this isn't really a binary, that there is a spectrum of randomness so some numbers are more random than others! If one end of that spectrum is Truly Random, then the other end must be NOT random! What gives? After further study, it seems that a random number just has to satisfy the requirement that each possible value within the set has an equal probability of being selected, but in the real world, the set is truly infinite. Is the concept of true randomness simply an artifact of mathematics? Wouldn't it be a violation of the Law of Causation? [link] [comments]  |
| Why can't stable orbits exist in more than 3 dimensional space? Posted: 19 Jul 2017 07:35 AM PDT |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2017 06:01 PM PDT 'Physics' A friend of mine and I have been having a debate about how earlier today I left a bucket outside, and after it stopped raining, there was about an inch of water in it. I then said, "we just got about an inch of rain in the last 15 minutes." He then said, "doesn't it depend on the size of bucket? [link] [comments]  |
| Why solar sails work but EM Drive validity is in doubt? Posted: 19 Jul 2017 07:02 AM PDT |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2017 04:57 PM PDT From my understanding, the missing information would be filled in with information from the other eyeball, but if that one is closed how can we know what is in our blind spot? If we keep one eye closed and stare at the same point with our other eyeball would the blind spot slowly develop as our brain becomes more unsure of what is there? [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any plants that contain cannabinoids other than the Cannabis family and Radula marginata? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 12:38 PM PDT |
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| Could one perform a gravitational slingshot around a black hole? How effective would it be (if yes)? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 07:36 PM PDT Question randomly popped into my head while staring at the Mass Effect 2 main menu. [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any proven, long-term effects on children whose mothers drank alcohol while breastfeeding? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 10:44 PM PDT |
| Why does Benadryl make you drowsy? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 07:58 PM PDT I know the simple answer is that drowsiness is a side effect of antihistamines, but I'd like to know what antihistamines specifically do to make you feel tired. [link] [comments]  |
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| Could you make guitar strings out of carbon nanotubes? Posted: 18 Jul 2017 05:53 PM PDT |
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