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7 hours ago

Why don’t baseball players bunt anymore? Answer by Aaron Brown, Columnist at Wilmott Magazine: "Whether you're asking about the decline since 1945, or the faster decline since 2010, we can rule out many common explanations."

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3 days ago

In economics, would increasing the minimum wage increase prices? Answer by Valerie Rhea, PhD Economist: "...what it really does is guarantee that any low-skilled worker not capable of producing at a level implied by the minimum wage will tend to remain unemployed."

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a week ago

In old episodes of Gunsmoke, Miss Kitty frequently offers Marshal Dillon a cold beer at the Longbranch Saloon. In the days before electricity, how could the beer have been chilled? Answer by Erik Painter that shows pre-electric, how the ice industry chilled beer and food.

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a week ago

Can the role of a stand-up comedian be similar to the job of a philosopher, where one seeks truth for truth's sake, and the other seeks truth to laugh at? Answer by @fmdolan, Professor, UC Berkeley: "Humor can involve perceiving a situation in a new, truthful frame of reference."

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2 weeks ago

Why can't we transplant other animals’ eyes into humans and gain the benefits of their eyes? Answer by Ken Saladin, former professor of histology: "We can't even transplant a human eye into another person and restore vision."

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2 weeks ago

Once I read a description to a numerical methods course and it says "often in math, it is possible to prove the existence of a solution to a problem but it isn't possible to "find it". What does that mean? Answer by Senia Sheydvasser qr.ae/psHGic with a game example.

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3 weeks ago

A modern CPU with billions of transistors, when running a normal program, how many of those transistors are actually used? Answer by Joe Zbiciak: "Chips and software both have bugs, and chips have manufacturing defects."

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3 weeks ago

Why can't a physicist make quantum physics understandable to most people? Answer by Mark John Fernee, 20+ years as a physicist: ""Quantum objects are neither particles nor waves. They have behaviors that can be consistent with either."

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4 weeks ago

Was Einstein too old to work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project even if he had security clearance? Answer by Viktor T. Toth: "E = mc² entered the public imagination as though it was this equation that unlocked the secret of nuclear physics. It was not."

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a month ago

What happened to satellite pictures, why aren't they used to solve some of the worst crimes? I thought they can read a license plate from space. Answer by Dr. Balaji Viswanathan: "A high resolution spy satellite doesn’t usually cover more than a couple of square kilometers..."

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a month ago

What does Alan Kay think about programming and teaching programming with copilots and LLMs of today? Answer by Alan Kay: "A simple principle is that for most things that are automated and scaled, the *trust requirements* have to be vastly expanded and made vastly more strict."

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a month ago

Do antidepressants just cover up the underlying problems? Answer by Jack J. Wu, M.D.: "In my psychiatry residency training back in 2004–2008, even in the psychiatrist/psychiatry realm we thought that antidepressants, ... were just covering up the underlying problems..."

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a month ago

From an engineering standpoint, is there a theoretical limit to the maximum height of a skyscraper? Answer by Doug Graham: "Yes, but we’re a long way from reaching it."

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2 months ago

What is understanding of the mysterious dimensionless fine structure constant of circa 137? Answer by Michael Peskin, Professor at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Center: "... the same way that the fact that the Moon and Sun have the same angular size..."

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2 months ago

What is the estimated fuel consumption of a starship trip from NRHO to Mars? Answer by Frank Norris, Author of "Colonizing Mars": "As far as the trip to Mars that is not too much of a challenge. Starship can manage about 64 tons of payload to Mars orbit and back to Earth..."

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2 months ago

If a defibrillator is not present, could you use a 110 outlet restart a stopped heart? Answer by Marc Boutet, Paramedic who helps out with Research on Cardiac Arrest: "An electrical shock from a defibrillator does not restart a stopped heart. It actually stops the heart."

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2 months ago

Why is it when I see a propeller on a single engine plane looks it's bending outward away from the plane? Answer by Scott Hanson, Former Electronic Warfare Technician at United States Navy: "What you are referring to is called the rolling shutter effect! ..."

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2 months ago

Why are movie budgets so high? Answer by Royce Allen Dudley, Producer, Director, Cinematographer: "...much of the crew worked yesterday or longer arranging the shoot and prepping and loading gear trucks, picking up supplies and so forth. Just for one shot."

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2 months ago

Why is the four color theorem important? Answer by Senia Sheydvasser, PhD in Mathematics: "...four colors always suffice, regardless of what the map is. But this might yield the erroneous impression that, at its core, the four color theorem is about map-making"

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2 months ago

What animal do you think looks like it's from a different planet? Answer by Gary Meaney, author of Zoology's Greatest Mystery: "They challenge our very idea of what an organism even is - and what it isn’t."

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