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Why do you not feel hungry after not eating for a long time?

11076 upvotes • ManEatingGnomes

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How do animals like whales not get the bends when breaching at high speeds from the depths?

11063 upvotes • Designnosaur

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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?

11063 upvotes • You_Suck_Ya_Jackass

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When does a mushroom die? When it's picked? When it's packaged? Refrigerated? Sliced? Digested?

11059 upvotes • 1Davide

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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?

11030 upvotes • skyebullock

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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?

11026 upvotes • celo753

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If prions are extremely hard to destroy, and they convert other proteins into prions, could every protein on Earth become a prion, similar to the Grey Goo scenario? How likely is this?

10999 upvotes • Mort432

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How deep is the Sahara deserts sand, and what's at the bottom of the sand?

10992 upvotes • asmosdeus

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Do all organisms perceive the passage of time at the same rate?

10977 upvotes • perimason

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Does writing by hand have positive cognitive effects that cannot be replicated by typing?

10977 upvotes • mee_sua

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why do you not feel hungry after not eating for a long time?	11076	ManEatingGnomes
How do animals like whales not get the bends when breaching at high speeds from the depths?	11063	Designnosaur
How do super storms like Hurricane Dorian affect marine life as the storm travels through the area? Do they affect deep sea creatures?	11063	You_Suck_Ya_Jackass
When does a mushroom die? When it's picked? When it's packaged? Refrigerated? Sliced? Digested?	11059	1Davide
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?	11030	skyebullock
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?	11026	celo753
If prions are extremely hard to destroy, and they convert other proteins into prions, could every protein on Earth become a prion, similar to the Grey Goo scenario? How likely is this?	10999	Mort432
How deep is the Sahara deserts sand, and what's at the bottom of the sand?	10992	asmosdeus
Do all organisms perceive the passage of time at the same rate?	10977	perimason
Does writing by hand have positive cognitive effects that cannot be replicated by typing?	10977	mee_sua