Seldom-asked questions
…please let me know if you know any answers. Links will be added from the questions to the answers as they continue to flood in.
- If they can make a wind-up notebook for the ‘third world’ for under $100, why do I have to cart a power adaptor around when my notebook cost over ten times as much?
- Why did only dinosaurs with beaks and feathers survive?
- What was the preferred time of day for ancient Greek fleets to set sail over the ‘wine-dark sea’?
- If you shouldn't pick it, why does it itch?
- If the West Antarctic ice sheet slips into the sea, will this cause tsunamis?
- What percentage of American Biblical fundamentalists has actually read the Bible?
- Did it always rain in the wet season?
- Is there a name for a thing for taking stones out of horses’ hooves?
- What is the chin for?
- The Finns talk a lot about how little they talk. So does that mean that if they talked more, they would have less to talk about?
- Is there any solid evidence that ostriches’ ancestors could ever fly?
- Does a significant number of non-smokers need Viagra?
- 600 million years after the emergence of multicelled life, how much of the ocean is now composed of fish pee?
- Do birds’ beaks grow after they have hatched?
- Could anarchy rule?
- When did the Greeks stop referring to themselves as ‘Romans’?
- Do BMWs age more quickly if they are behind other cars? Or just the drivers?
- Why am I sitting in front of this stupid machine and not outside in the sunshine?
- Why are microchips designed on a square lattice? They could fit in more with a hexagonal tesselation.
- Has anyone’s life ever been saved by an aeroplane life jacket (that’s an airplane life vest if you’re reading in American)?
- Why does hair not all go grey at once?
- Is all theology idolatry?
