/u/ManInBlack829's posts in /r/askscience

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

Learning about Botany and discovered Carl Linnaeus. I discovered he named and classified over 7000 plants, but I was wondering if he had any "special" plants that held value to him? Where there any plants that were special or important to how he decided to name things?

19 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What would potentially keep Coronavirus from being a perpetual threat to humanity, mutating again and again and every year like a common cold?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

I am in a biology class dissecting a cat and cannot go to school anymore to finish my labs. Are there any good (free) resources out there that can help me with this?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

I recently learned that before the Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans that water has been diverted from it to other rivers. This makes me curious: at what point on the Mississippi river does it have the most water?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

I read that the Aspen Tree (Populus tremuloides) has the widest range of any tree in North America. But what tree has the widest range in the lower 48 states?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Learning about special relativity and electricity. From what I'm learning about the two they share a lot of similarities so I'm curious: Why is mass not just the measure of our gravitational charge or conductance? Why can gravity not (in theory) have a reverse charge where everything repels?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Learning about Botany and discovered Carl Linnaeus. I discovered he named and classified over 7000 plants, but I was wondering if he had any "special" plants that held value to him? Where there any plants that were special or important to how he decided to name things?	19
What would potentially keep Coronavirus from being a perpetual threat to humanity, mutating again and again and every year like a common cold?	1
I am in a biology class dissecting a cat and cannot go to school anymore to finish my labs. Are there any good (free) resources out there that can help me with this?	1
I recently learned that before the Mississippi River reaches the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans that water has been diverted from it to other rivers. This makes me curious: at what point on the Mississippi river does it have the most water?	1
I read that the Aspen Tree (Populus tremuloides) has the widest range of any tree in North America. But what tree has the widest range in the lower 48 states?	1
Learning about special relativity and electricity. From what I'm learning about the two they share a lot of similarities so I'm curious: Why is mass not just the measure of our gravitational charge or conductance? Why can gravity not (in theory) have a reverse charge where everything repels?	1