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There are tons of single-celled organisms, and quite a few with billions of cells. Are there any with a handful of cells? Three or four or a few dozen or so? What are they like?

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What's with oil and gas well flares? Can't they use those hydrocarbons rather than burning them for nothing?

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Haber-Bosch, Phillips' contact process, the cumene process... from the outside, industrial chemistry seems like a history lesson. Have there been any big advances in the production of common chemicals (or smelting/refining metals, for that matter) in the last generation?

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A car radio seems to fade out fairly abruptly at a certain point in a tunnel rather than fade out slowly. Does this have something to do with how waves of that frequency interact with certain tunnel dimensions, or something similar?

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How isomorphic are our peripheral nervous systems? Or things like blood vessels, for that matter?

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Would a thruster mounted on the ground (that is, pushing downward) and fired at dawn slow the orbital speed of the earth around the sun?

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I know that many to most rivers exhibit some kind of seasonal variation, but how unique on earth is the Nile in 1) providing a relatively regular annual flood, or 2) depositing a ton of useful silt during that flood?

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Supercolliders/Particle Accelerators--why do they need to be bigger?

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How can fabric with stretchy stuff in it be stretchier than the non-stretchy stuff in it?

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What would happen to antibiotic resistance if we removed the selection pressures driving it?

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There are tons of single-celled organisms, and quite a few with billions of cells. Are there any with a handful of cells? Three or four or a few dozen or so? What are they like?	5
What's with oil and gas well flares? Can't they use those hydrocarbons rather than burning them for nothing?	4
Haber-Bosch, Phillips' contact process, the cumene process... from the outside, industrial chemistry seems like a history lesson. Have there been any big advances in the production of common chemicals (or smelting/refining metals, for that matter) in the last generation?	4
A car radio seems to fade out fairly abruptly at a certain point in a tunnel rather than fade out slowly. Does this have something to do with how waves of that frequency interact with certain tunnel dimensions, or something similar?	3
How isomorphic are our peripheral nervous systems? Or things like blood vessels, for that matter?	2
Would a thruster mounted on the ground (that is, pushing downward) and fired at dawn slow the orbital speed of the earth around the sun?	2
I know that many to most rivers exhibit some kind of seasonal variation, but how unique on earth is the Nile in 1) providing a relatively regular annual flood, or 2) depositing a ton of useful silt during that flood?	1
Supercolliders/Particle Accelerators--why do they need to be bigger?	1
How can fabric with stretchy stuff in it be stretchier than the non-stretchy stuff in it?	1
What would happen to antibiotic resistance if we removed the selection pressures driving it?	1