/u/liamemsa's posts in /r/askscience
Give the "birthday problem," does that mean that if I pick 70 random numbers between 1-365, I have a 99.9% chance of picking the same number twice?
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How come, as humans, our ability to accurately gauge distances tends to fall off dramatically past like ten meters or so?
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How come larger animals tend to live longer than smaller animals, but larger animals tend to live shorter lives than smaller animals in that same species?
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It's rather easy for a layman to discern audio quality differences between songs recorded in 1975 and 1995. What differences are there between songs recorded in 1995 and 2015?
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In a modern industrial society, medicine has made it so that people who would have otherwise died young and failed to reproduce (e.g. Stephen Hawking) are now able to pass on their genes to offspring. Are we now using medicine to overcome evolution via natural selection?
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