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Science our parents grew up with: Julius Sumner Miller | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Science our parents grew up with: Julius Sumner Miller. May 28, 2013. In I thought cool. 8220;Watch it, now! What this apparent lunatic was trying to do on live TV, was push a paper straw through a raw potato. Allegedly, if you squeeze the end of the straw, the air inside acts like a piston. And the straw pushes through (similar to those pistons found in a Wankel Engine. Suitably abashed, he later stated “ I sa...
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Stuff you wanted to know | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Stuff you wanted to know. Every now and then, I get asked a random science question. These are sometimes in person, via text message, or on Facebook and such, and most of the time, I get asked the same question more than once. Here, you can find a list of these questions, and the answers that I have provided for them. Feel free to get in touch. If you have any questions you would like to see appearing here*. You are ...
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A sonic boom from inside the plane | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. A sonic boom from inside the plane. May 28, 2013. As the name would suggest, a sonic boom. Is a loud noise associated in some way with the propagation of sound waves. But the same can also be said about librarians acting as fun police in every biblioteca the world over. So the name actually doesn’t really tell us much. What’s actually going on up there? But a ship makes a continuous wake, right? A continuous boom....
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Tornado vs Rainbow | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. May 28, 2013. A friend of mine recently posted this to his Facebook wall, and asked me if it was photoshopped or not (like I know anything about photo editing…). Just about everyone on their virtual high horse damned this person’s ignorance at the prospect that the photo was true – “Of course it’s shopped! Tornados can’t suck up light! 8221; And these people are right: a tornado can suck up a great deal. EDIT: Since ...
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Tornado vs Rainbow | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. May 28, 2013. A friend of mine recently posted this to his Facebook wall, and asked me if it was photoshopped or not (like I know anything about photo editing…). Just about everyone on their virtual high horse damned this person’s ignorance at the prospect that the photo was true – “Of course it’s shopped! Tornados can’t suck up light! 8221; And these people are right: a tornado can suck up a great deal. EDIT: Since ...
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Dr Karlette | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Author Archives: Dr Karlette. Q&A One-liners: just like Dad’s jokes, but with less joke and more funny. May 28, 2013. Every now and then, one-sentence answers are all you’re looking for. Here are a few questions that can pretty simply be answered by the less-is-more* approach, in conjunction with a […]. Read Article →. It’s like there’s an analogue TV switching on somewhere in my head. May 28, 2013. A boy and his atom.
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Q&A One-liners: just like Dad’s jokes, but with less joke and more funny. | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Q&A One-liners: just like Dad’s jokes, but with less joke and more funny. May 28, 2013. Every now and then, one-sentence answers are all you’re looking for. Here are a few questions that can pretty simply be answered by the less-is-more* approach, in conjunction with a link to sources far more knowledgeable than I. Q: Why does my stomach drop when I get nervous, or scared? Q: Why is it bad to look straight at the sun?
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Stuff you think is cool | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. This page here, ladies and gentlemen, is the voice of the people. Email me with anything you come across which you think is interesting and/or awesome (even those things that are so incredible that you wish you could replace the for-some-ungoldy-reason-ingrained-in-my-head Meatloaf lyrics with it). The world’s smallest movie. Ever. In history. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. A boy and his atom.
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Is the southern cross dead?! | Why is it so...?
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Why is it so…? Stuff you wanted to know. Stuff I think is cool. Stuff you think is cool. Is the southern cross dead? May 28, 2013. This is a question that has come up a number of times in my interstellar travels: Are the stars that we see at night, in actual fact, dead? First, I think it’s important here to define what ‘dead’ actually means in this scenario. Into oblivion, this reality doesn’t work like that. In actual fact, the life cycle of a star. While nothing in the universe just evaporates into emp...
