I haven't smoked for 14 days. I stopped cold turkey. I really want a cigarette, like REALLY want 1. It's been very difficult today, the craving hasn't let me concentrate on my work for over 2 hours. I'm tempted to go buy a packet and take 1 cig and give the rest to a homeless. Why shouldn't I do it? (www.reddit.com)
How do you respond to people who tell you how you've gained weight when you are simply minding your business? How do you give it right to them without showing that you're angry? (www.reddit.com)
why does selective breeding speed up the evolutionary process so quickly in species like pugs but standard evolution takes hundreds of thousands if not millions of years to cause some major change? (www.reddit.com)
Quote from an article on the Guardian news website, "a single bit of data stored on a mobile phone adds about 10 quectograms to its mass". Is this an accurate statement, and if so, how does data add mass? (www.reddit.com)
Both historically and culturally, what were the reasons for the big popularity of Grimm's fairy tales in Japan? And how were they brought there in the first place? (www.reddit.com)
In the Middle Ages did any people live outside of the feudal system in a forest or something and evade being some rich king's serf and instead get to live on a patch of land that they owned? (www.reddit.com)
How would a traveler in the American West during the latter half of the 19th-century prove ownership of a horse (and by extension, carriage, wagon, etc)? (www.reddit.com)
What was your experience with abortion like? Did you experience conflicting emotions afterwards, or even a sense of grief? How did you cope? (www.reddit.com)
I am watching my brother's Mastiff, and I gave him some of my pizza, Pepperoni, Mushroom, Ham, and Onions. Then I realized I don't know if that would hurt the dog. He is just sitting there slobbering, would any of those things hurt the dog? (www.reddit.com)
Some of the plays of Euripides famously survive with "alphabetical" titles, as if saved from one row of a complete set. However, I've heard it questioned whether this is what actually happened. What is the scholarly consensus? (www.reddit.com)
Can anyone recommend any books that outline difference philosophical schools of thought, such as stoicism, nihilism and existentialism? (www.reddit.com)
'Raiding (like the Vikings or the Mongols used to do) is actually about establishing trade routes and favorable trade conditions. It's done via the sacking of cities' - prof. Timothy Snyder in 'Making of Modern Ukraine' podcast (ep. 5). Could the historians here explaing this more in depth? (www.reddit.com)
When slavery is discussed in the USA the main focus is on the large slave plantations but what was being enslaved like on smaller farms or households? (www.reddit.com)
How much does it matter to you if a cute/potential date have close to 0 social media presence such a as a very low insta followers count? (www.reddit.com)
Did the other Allied nations understand the tremendous devastation and loss of life the USSR had suffered during the war? And if so, why were they then convinced the USSR was a global threat after the war? (www.reddit.com)
If false memories are so easily created, and since memory is huge part of our identity, are our a lot of memories and part of identity is just a fiction? (www.reddit.com)
Is it possible for two planets to orbit each other in a way where Planet A is tidally locked to the sun while Planet B is in geostationary orbit on the dark side of Planet A, thus putting Planet B in a constant total solar eclipse? (www.reddit.com)
How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households? (www.reddit.com)
How do fungi become resistant to antifungal medication? Is there another way to treat fungal infections even when the fungi become resistant? (www.reddit.com)
Are there philosophers who argue that the prevalent disagreement in philosophy is due to the differences in intuitions across different philosophers? (www.reddit.com)
On his assertion that barter economy is a myth, how does David Graeber adress to Ancient/Early Medieval authors describing barter economies like Solinus on the Dunmonii (Polyhistor, §22.7)? (www.reddit.com)
If a slave owner in 1830's Alabama ordered his slave to commit a crime, who would be punished for the crime and what would the penalty be? (www.reddit.com)
It seems that, for the most part, pre-industrial cities must have smelled god-awful due to lack of modern sewers. Is there anything to indicate the inhabitants were "acclimated" to this smell? (www.reddit.com)
Are there any philosophers, or profilic speakers and writters, who criticise internet, social media and the way it imapcted our world? (www.reddit.com)
I saw in a video that chimpanzees and gorillas do not knuckle-walk in the same way, but they didn't explain what the difference is. Could someone elaborate on the physiological/anatomical differences? (www.reddit.com)
Why is it that India is still a majority Hindu nation even when it had muslim rulers for more than 500 years? Why is it that people did not adopt Islam as their religion? (www.reddit.com)
Thomas Jefferson was rumored to enjoy macaroni and cheese. What were the main types of cheese available to colonists during the Revolutionary War period? (www.reddit.com)
It's well known that the female roles in Shakespeare's plays were performed by boys. How far back does the prohibition on women in the theater go? Was it just in England or all of Europe? Why did it stop? (www.reddit.com)
I’m watching a Spark show on Neanderthals that says most humans have 2-4% Neanderthal DNA, except Africans. Because Neanderthals roamed far and wide, except not to Africa. But didn’t they come from Africa? Didn’t all Homos evolve in Africa? (www.reddit.com)
My dad is convinced that Portuguese sailors "discovered" Australia before the Dutch in the 17th century. Is this just misplaced nationalist pride, or is there some truth to this claim? (www.reddit.com)
The fall of the Western Roman Empire left us with many related languages, all based on Latin. Why didn’t the same thing happen with Greek in the East? Where are the Greek-based languages in the East? (www.reddit.com)
I’m not religious. I was invited to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving (Canada). When asked if I wanted to say grace at dinner I politely declined. Awkward evening ensued. Since then I’ve been ghosted by my friend and his family completely, except for a text informing me I’m ignorant and ungrateful. (www.reddit.com)
In the Bible, God gives Aaron leprosy for protesting Moses marrying a Nubian (black) woman. How did white theologians reconcile this with their white supremacist views? (www.reddit.com)
In 1871, Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany was asked to decide whether Britain or the US should control the San Juan Islands in modern day Washington state. Was this sort of international arbitration common at that time? What did Wilhelm I think about being asked to arbitrate? (www.reddit.com)
During the medieval era, texts were copied by hand by scribes. How would the manuscripts then be distributed to libraries, churches, etc? Would a certain text already have a destination in mind while being copied? (www.reddit.com)
Self-taught philosopher here: with the importance of language to modern philosophy, why isn't the issue of aesthetics discussed more often? (www.reddit.com)
During the age of European exploration, ships would be gone for years and were often lost or years overdue before they returned. How were the sailors paid? (www.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Jonathan Blutinger, a postdoctoral researcher in the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University, developing a "digital chef" that can 3D print and laser cook edible items. Ask me anything about the process! (www.reddit.com)
If I were a simple layperson in medieval Europe what would be my best bet to learn how to read and write? Would I even want to? If it were possible, what material could I hope to read? (www.reddit.com)
Chinese astronomers kept detailed records of "guest stars" and other transient phenomena from at least the 3rd century BC. What exactly did they interpret these to mean culturally or politically? Did those interpretations change as they found more occurrences? (www.reddit.com)
During the Spanish Inquisition the Spanish had smallpoxs which killed millions of Natives as the werent imune to it, why didnt the Spanish die of diseases the Natives had the Spanish werent imune to? (www.reddit.com)
Why in North American history there are is more natives being killed/placed in reservations while South America there was more integration? (www.reddit.com)
How do you create a philosophy? Are there any real rules? If I wrote down some rules for “Banana-ism” where I outline why everyone should eat and grow as many bananas as possible, would that not be a philosophy? (www.reddit.com)
I'm a young feudal lord who has freshly inherited his father's estate. I'm unmarried, but there's a problem: I don't fancy women. Could I expect a life of "celibacy", or would people around me manage to pressure me enough to marry? (www.reddit.com)
We have seen successful transplants of various organs, hands, even faces -- so why not transplants of legs or feet to lower-limb amputees? Why are these not a thing? (www.reddit.com)
How do we have more woolly mammoth DNA than dodo DNA if woolly mammoths died off thousands of years ago and dodos only died off a few hundred? (www.reddit.com)
Are good deeds morally moot because I get a good feeling after them? Does being motivated to do good things for other people because I feel good after it mean I'm just driven to make myself feel good? (www.reddit.com)
Why is friendzoned such a terrible thing for guys? It means that she still sees you as part of her life, as she is down to spend time and talk to you (www.reddit.com)
Single women who live alone: what do you do after a conflict with someone? Is there someone you talk to or do you carry on by yourself? (www.reddit.com)
Were significant generations of the 19th century or earlier culturally identified with names like we do with “Baby Boomers” and “Millennials”? (www.reddit.com)