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Why is it so common for people who have undergone trauma in childhood to exhibit compulsive rocking motion?

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What is it about Arctic summers that make them so ideal for breeding such large swarms of mosquitos?

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Is there any scientific basis to a dichotomy between 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' people?

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Why are pigs claimed to be so similar to humans even compared to other even-toed ungulates?

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If laughing is a mechanism that evolved as a way of bonding socially, why can we get the giggles at inappropriate times?

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Why is it so often stated that a person died from 'complications relating to Covid-19' and not directly from Covid-19?

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Why did the bicycle take until well into the 19th century to be invented even though it relied on technology that had been around for centuries beforehand?

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What would happen if you tried sticking a pencil up each nostril and ramming your head against a hard surface?

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Do Polynesian peoples have particularly low genetic diversity relative to other peoples of the world (including, say, Northern Europeans)? If not, how did they maintain that diversity? If so, are particular genetic diseases very prominent among Polynesians?

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How scientifically reliable are the kinds of DNA tests offered by companies like Ancestry.com?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is it so common for people who have undergone trauma in childhood to exhibit compulsive rocking motion?	26
What is it about Arctic summers that make them so ideal for breeding such large swarms of mosquitos?	20
Is there any scientific basis to a dichotomy between 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' people?	2
Why are pigs claimed to be so similar to humans even compared to other even-toed ungulates?	1
If laughing is a mechanism that evolved as a way of bonding socially, why can we get the giggles at inappropriate times?	1
Why is it so often stated that a person died from 'complications relating to Covid-19' and not directly from Covid-19?	1
Why did the bicycle take until well into the 19th century to be invented even though it relied on technology that had been around for centuries beforehand?	1
What would happen if you tried sticking a pencil up each nostril and ramming your head against a hard surface? NSFW	1
Do Polynesian peoples have particularly low genetic diversity relative to other peoples of the world (including, say, Northern Europeans)? If not, how did they maintain that diversity? If so, are particular genetic diseases very prominent among Polynesians?	1
How scientifically reliable are the kinds of DNA tests offered by companies like Ancestry.com?	1