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Why can we not predict who will win a sports game next week, but we can predict the heat death of the universe billions of years from now?

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Why does an embryo grow into 3 dimensions and not 4?

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Why did humans lose our baculum?

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What are the biggest misconceptions people have about the human body?

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An isolated particle can be conceptualized as a gap in a continuous field, e.g. an electron is really a hole in a positive field. What are the benefits of thinking in this way?

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A circle is the set of all points a certain distance from a point. Do the radii connecting those points become denser nearer the center of the circle?

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Each portion of a hologram contains an image of the entire object from that portion's perspective. Could you cut off a blank corner of the VISA bird hologram and suddenly see the bird in that new fragment?

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When a disease causes nucleated red blood cells, do those cells replicate?

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What are the visible effects of supermassive black holes that we can see in pictures of other galaxies?

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If a circle is the sum of all points equidistant from a central point, and each of those distances can be represented by a radius, do those radii get "denser" closer to the center of the circle, geometrically speaking?

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Why can we not predict who will win a sports game next week, but we can predict the heat death of the universe billions of years from now?	1
Why does an embryo grow into 3 dimensions and not 4?	1
Why did humans lose our baculum?	1
What are the biggest misconceptions people have about the human body?	1
An isolated particle can be conceptualized as a gap in a continuous field, e.g. an electron is really a hole in a positive field. What are the benefits of thinking in this way?	1
A circle is the set of all points a certain distance from a point. Do the radii connecting those points become denser nearer the center of the circle?	1
Each portion of a hologram contains an image of the entire object from that portion's perspective. Could you cut off a blank corner of the VISA bird hologram and suddenly see the bird in that new fragment?	1
When a disease causes nucleated red blood cells, do those cells replicate?	1
What are the visible effects of supermassive black holes that we can see in pictures of other galaxies?	1
If a circle is the sum of all points equidistant from a central point, and each of those distances can be represented by a radius, do those radii get "denser" closer to the center of the circle, geometrically speaking?	1