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I have two friends who are currently embroiled in a heated debate about the phylogeny of bears. One friend asserts that polar bears and grizzly bears share a common ancestor. The other maintains that polar bears are descendants of the grizzly bear. Despite numerous attempts to find a conclusive answer, they [...]
Do we fully understand why and how quantum entanglement happens? Better yet, will we ever understand it? Can it be reduced to a mechanics or is it like the rest of quantum mechanics, which is, by scientific definition, indeterminate? As a layman to physics, I don’t quite understand entanglement and it seems like some form [...]
If you are in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn the headlights on, does anything happen?
First of all, “does anything happen” is pretty relative. So I’ll take a poke at what you intended to say.
According to Special Theory of Relativity, if you’re traveling at the speed of light [...]
When a flock of geese is sleeping, one or two of them will remain awake to act as sentries. What process, if any, does the flock use to choose which geese are the sentries?
For millennia, it was Rock, Paper, Scissors. But their webbing made every throw Paper vs. Paper. Consequently, nobody was assigned sentry [...]
What is the largest lemur? [3592A]
Along with the Indri, the Diademed Sifaka is the largest of the living lemurs. There used to be many more large species (some as large as a small female gorilla), but they’ve become extinct with exposure to man (way to go, man!). With arms fully extended, the Indri can [...]
How big is the average nose? Please address each dimension. [3570B]
Da Vinci believed that the nose from bridge to tip is the length of the index finger from the knuckle to the tip; the width of the base of the nose is equal to the width of the eye. While people are generally getting [...]
What time is it at the North Pole?
By Library Answer Person On November 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Life\'s mysteries, Lobby Book, Science
What time is it at the North/South Pole? [3583A]
Such a question has been known to blow a few minds during certain smoke-filled social settings on weekend (or weekday!) evenings (or mornings!). Seriously, though, it’s whatever time you want it to be (that is to say, select from among the 24 standard time zones). Since [...]
I miss the sunny/warm weather but I’m dreading summer already (I’m staying here) because of the cockroaches that kept me company ALL last summer on Central. How do I tell them that they’ve overstayed and are no longer welcome? [3549B]
[written in answer space: usually it involves poison of some type]
Tell them they’ve overstayed [...]
Is it so wrong to wear UNC blue? It’s a good summer color. [3502C]
[written in answer space: Death to you.]
If you want to keep your core temperature low during the summer months, it is actually more appropriate to wear light blue, since dark colors absorb the sun’s radiation more than light colors. In [...]
What is the effect of the eCB pathway in memory extinction of fear? [3502A]
It depends on whether you’re referring to the European Central Bank or endogenous cannabinoid.
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