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If island chains like Hawai'i were formed by the continuous movement of a plate over a magma plume in the mantle, why do they take the form of separate islands rather than a continuous ridge?

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To the best of our current knowledge, what exactly is happening in the brain when we read?

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To what extent does human thinking rely on successive pairing of objects/concepts (e.g. me/you)?

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What's the extremely fine foam on the top of an espresso, and what makes it swirl around in such (for lack of a better word) trippy ways?

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When I was younger I used to have fever dreams that always involved a terror of large numbers of things. I've heard of similar experiences from other people. What was going on?

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Would it be possible for the water stored in minerals in the earth's crust and mantle to collect in any sort of larger aggregation?

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What are the psychological or neurological theories underlying studies that measure the response time to tasks like sorting words/images?

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If a game of 20 Questions, for example, produces a 20-bit string of information, how do you quantify the far vaster "substrate" or "background" of knowledge without which it is effectively useless?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
If island chains like Hawai'i were formed by the continuous movement of a plate over a magma plume in the mantle, why do they take the form of separate islands rather than a continuous ridge?	1783
To the best of our current knowledge, what exactly is happening in the brain when we read?	3
To what extent does human thinking rely on successive pairing of objects/concepts (e.g. me/you)?	1
What's the extremely fine foam on the top of an espresso, and what makes it swirl around in such (for lack of a better word) trippy ways?	1
When I was younger I used to have fever dreams that always involved a terror of large numbers of things. I've heard of similar experiences from other people. What was going on?	1
Would it be possible for the water stored in minerals in the earth's crust and mantle to collect in any sort of larger aggregation?	1
What are the psychological or neurological theories underlying studies that measure the response time to tasks like sorting words/images?	1
If a game of 20 Questions, for example, produces a 20-bit string of information, how do you quantify the far vaster "substrate" or "background" of knowledge without which it is effectively useless?	1