Is there any particularly reason why American fantastical media (books, films, etc) doesn't take much inspiration from American Folklore? (www.reddit.com)
How would a 50 year old woman that dropped out of school in the 6th grade and can barley do basic arithmetic go about going to college? (www.reddit.com)
In DC vs Heller, Scalia mostly relies upon historical contextual understanding of what language of 2nd amendment was intended to mean. However, most of these references are not from the founders of the Constitution. Did any of the founders explain why the 2nd amendment was included? (www.reddit.com)
In traditional Hawaiian culture the child of incestuous unions, especially between full brothers and sisters, were considered divine and their social rank equal to gods. Did the heavy practice of multi-generational inbreeding cause any genetic diseases amongst the population? (www.reddit.com)
How accepted was the “clean Wehrmacht” myth in Germany during the postwar era? What role did the German state have in the propagation of this myth? (www.reddit.com)
Is American politics really just people making statements in reaction to other statements but no one actually does anything for the people? (www.reddit.com)
There's consensus among historians that Rome's seven kings are "legendary," but is there consensus on whether the Roman Kingdom existed in some form at some point? (www.reddit.com)
Women who have been in abusive relationships, how do you let go of wanting your ex to truly understand and validate how much pain they caused you? (www.reddit.com)
What happened to the slaves of the Arab slave trade? Where are their descendants and where do we see the most significant impact of this millenia long trade on the arab world (by that which parts of the Arab world)? (www.reddit.com)
How far back in time would I have to go before the average person would not recognize the typical smiley face design of two dots for eyes and a round line for a mouth? (www.reddit.com)
If all the hair on our body disappeared with evolution becausd we wear clothes, why do we still have pubic hair ? Shouldn't it be the first spot to disappear since it's the most often clothed ? (www.reddit.com)
In 1926, César Vallejo wrote: "it will be worthless for man to go to the moon if profits aren't shared between workers and owners." Was going to the moon already in the air as something not utterly fantastical due rapid advances in flight? (www.reddit.com)
My grandfather used to joke “You can sum up Russian history in five words: And Then It Got Worse.” How old is this joke, and the idea that Russia is a uniquely unfortunate country? (www.reddit.com)
What was the American public's reaction to Reagan's firing of 11k ATC workers in 1981? Did this have any economic impacts to the country? Did it cause flight delays? How did all those airports find new employees all of a sudden (or were the fired members quietly rehired)? (www.reddit.com)
Is it childish that I as an adult(24~25m) enjoy playing kid's games and buying legos because I didn't have any happy moments in my childhood? (www.reddit.com)
Switzerland, Austria and Germany famously have "hidden champions" - small and mid-sized enterprises that are world leaders in their field but relatively obscure. Are there any goods reads on how they became so successful and history behind it? (www.reddit.com)
What is the origin of the "so-so" hand gesture, where the hand is held flat with the palm facing the ground and then slightly rocked back and forth? (www.reddit.com)
Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy: Is it useful/accurate/worthy/"good"? Will it help orient me toward the major questions and fields, or is it considered too problematic to bother with? Any similar recommendations for general introductions? (www.reddit.com)
When the ‘new world’ was discovered, was the information kept secret? We’re there fears of how the masses would react to hearing of another world? (www.reddit.com)
Some Mexicans have Nahuatl surnames (e.g., Poctzin, Xico(h)téncatl, etc.). Are these survivals from pre-colonial times, later national-romantic/indigenist adoptions, or something else entirely? (www.reddit.com)
Today many thousands of citizen scientists (amateurs being crowdsourced under the guidance of professional academics) regularly contribute to various fields of science, sometimes in very important ways. Is there a role for "citizen historians" too? (www.reddit.com)
What was the deal with bullet bras in the 1950s? Why did they become a trend? Were they seen as scandalous or confusing or otherwise cause much backlash or cultural debate? Why did people want it to look like they had 2 traffic cones on their chest? (www.reddit.com)
If AI can already generate text-to-image how a captcha that asks to "select taxis" to prove that I'm not a robot is still used? I know it is not exactly the same, but shouldn't captchas be obsolete by now? (www.reddit.com)
Do temporary viruses or infections affect quality of sperm cells? Is a child conceived while the father has a bad cold or influenza at higher risk of birth defects or problems? (www.reddit.com)
Were there a lot of addicts in the Victorian era when things like opium, heroin, and cocaine were being used as medication and could be purchased so easily? (www.reddit.com)
What did the wives of men who retire to the forest get up to while their husbands were away (I think in India, maybe other Hindu/Buddhist cultures)? (www.reddit.com)
Do people with tetrachromacy or colorblindness experience seasonal affective disorder at the same rate and intensity as people with trichromacy? (www.reddit.com)
Does preventing evaporation on canals and reservoirs increase the ambient dryness/negative environmental impact overall over the long term? (www.reddit.com)
Are all modern birds descended from the same species of dinosaur, or did different dinosaur species evolve into different bird species? (www.reddit.com)
In traditional Hawaiian culture women would be put to death for eating pork, coconuts, taro, several types of fish, and 67 out of 70 varieties of bananas. What did Hawaiian women subsist off of? Why was there such a drastic limitation on what women could eat? (www.reddit.com)
Has there always been a ~30 year “cultural echo” as young people that are now in positions of power and influence set out to recreate fashion and cultural trends that were popular when they were children? (www.reddit.com)
Before collectivization, Russia had been the "breadbasket of Europe". Afterwards, the Soviet Union became a net importer of grain, unable to produce enough food to feed its own population. How did this happen? (www.reddit.com)
In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet wore Chinese robes to visit native tribes in Wisconsin, believing he would meet the Emperor of China. But people had already known America wasn’t Asia by the 1500s. Why didn’t the news reach Nicolet? (www.reddit.com)
Mods at /r/worldnews are permabanning anyone who says the Holodomor does not qualify as genocide. Is it the dominant view among historians that the Holodomor was a deliberate effort by Soviet authorities to exterminate one or more ethnic groups? (www.reddit.com)
How far did wood travel in late Antiquity & the Middle Ages? Was it all very local? My house in the Western U.S. (& much of the stuff in it) includes wood from Brazil, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, etc. (www.reddit.com)
Is there a single natural food source that if you only ate said food source, you wouldn’t get sick or die early because it’s lacking an important nutrient? (www.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Gretchen Benedix, a cosmic mineralogist and astrogeologist, and I study space rocks! Currently a Professor at Curtin University, I use the chemistry, mineralogy, and spectroscopy of meteorites to understand the formation and evolution of asteroids and planets. AMA! (www.reddit.com)
Was there ever a conflict between the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) and the 1st Amendment, since Roman Catholics and many Protestants require wine for communion, as do Jews on Passover? Or were there prearranged exceptions to avoid this sort of thing? (www.reddit.com)
In "The Odyssey," how would remarrying have affected Penelope legally, politically, and socially? Could/Would an widow in Ithaca['s equivalent] refuse to remarry for practical, rather than principled/romantic, reasons? (www.reddit.com)
How is Taco Bell able to give out 5000 sauce packets to each customer yet McDonald’s acts like you’ll bankrupt them if you ask for one sauce? (www.reddit.com)
W. E. B. Du Bois saw the issue of lynching in America was aberrant, and that simply explaining to white people that black people were not threats would end it. After seeing Sam Hose's knuckles for sale at Atlanta, he changed his mind. How did this revelation change his opinon and methods? (www.reddit.com)
"There was a time briefly where Japanese and European firearms were on par, and you could still see other ranged and melee weapons[katanas] on the field." Is this true? Did katanas ever share the same battlefield with firearms? (www.reddit.com)
Did the Allies have our own version of the Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw? If so who were they? Axis defectors or descendants of immigrants? (www.reddit.com)
Georgia and Uzbekistan had the same population in the 1897 Russian Empire census, but today Uzbekistan has 10 times the population today. What caused this? (www.reddit.com)
Robert Carro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson allege that all state-wide elections in Texas at that time involved quite widespread vote buying & manipulation among disenfranchized latino border areas. When and how did this apparent and consequential election fraud end? (www.reddit.com)