Is it possible for one blastomere to develop a mutation, causing half of the grown adult’s cells to carry a mutation, and the other half be mutation-free? (www.reddit.com)
why do we only have LEDs around the visible light spectrum? Why not have MEDs (microwave-emitting) or REDs (radio), or even XED (x-ray) or GED (gamma)? (www.reddit.com)
Morgan Freeman once said in an interview that racism would likely die on its own if people just stopped talking about race period. Could this be plausible? (www.reddit.com)
Why if you're heterosexual and binary would you have he/him or she/her in your profile. I get it if your trans or anything else but if youre the norm then why do you need to state it? (www.reddit.com)
What is the current consensus on Roger Ekirch’s whole First Sleep and Second Sleep hypothesis about how pre-modern humans apparently slept in two periods with a segment of activity in between? (www.reddit.com)
Are there any examples of legendary beings which were widely believed in by children but known not to exist by adults, like Santa Claus, from other periods of history? (www.reddit.com)
How is it 8 years ago all I ever heard about Tesla cars was how well-made and high-tech they are, and now they apparently rank rock bottom and always have? (www.reddit.com)
There’s a common idea that Freud’s clientele might have been struggling with childhood sexual abuse unacknowledgeable in bourgeois, fin-de-siècle Vienna. At this moment, is there any solid historical evidence for this? (www.reddit.com)
Why did St. Nicholas, in particular, become Santa Claus? The guy was a 3rd century bishop from Anatolia, why was he in particular merged with Odin and given an association with Christmas (www.reddit.com)
Bob's Burgers "The Land Ship." Did anyone during the Golden Age of Sail trick enemy ships into running aground with a "land ship?" Would that be feasible? (www.reddit.com)
If the clitoris is even more sensitive than the tip of a penis, why is it statistically higher for men to reach an orgasm compared to women? (www.reddit.com)
Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychology, and his ideas are immersed in our culture. But it seems like Freud was a disaster for every patient that ever worked with him. Were his ideas actually useful for treating patients, or was he just a good marketer of his ideas? (www.reddit.com)
Wearing revealing clothing doesn’t make someone responsible for other people looking at them. If you were to walk in public naked, you would be arrested for public indecency. When does one cross the line of personal fault? (www.reddit.com)
Why did parents in the early 1900s give children initials rather than complete names in the south? My great uncle had to legally give himself a first and last name as an adult because before they time his first name was L and his second one was R. (www.reddit.com)
in HBO Rome the characters start talking like the Republic is just dead forever right after the Battle of Pharsalus. is it realistic they would have been that pessimistic that soon? (www.reddit.com)
From my understanding, when 'Christianity' first emerged out of Judaism, there was no ontological division between the two until it was later firmly established by future theologians/scholars. Was this true also of Islam as far as the people of the Arabic peninsula were concerned? Were Muslims Jews? (www.reddit.com)
Browsing a high-end grocery store in the US, I saw a variety of grains - farro, amaranth, quinoa, etc. It got me thinking - what led to the dominance of wheat, rye, oats and corn over others, historically? Was it a choice, some inherent property, related to population migrations? (www.reddit.com)
It is said by many cultures that suicide is a sin because it is God's/the god's decision when you die. But, now that humans are able to artificially keep the body alive during terminal illness well past the point that people would have normally died, should suicide now be considered a viable option? (www.reddit.com)
Who built and maintained the roads between city-states in ancient Greece? Did each city only build its own section of the road, or was there some international cooperation? (www.reddit.com)
On the topic of dragons, I once heard that Marco Polo reportedly wrote about seeing dragons kept as pets in China. does anyone have any information about this? is it possible there was a kimono dragon type of some kind that has long been extinct and forgotten? (www.reddit.com)
Did royal families in medieval times suspect that inbreeding was leading to genetic issues such as hemophilia or the "Hapsburg Jaw", or did they blame these things on other circumstances? (www.reddit.com)
Why are there people worried about low birth rates and population collapse? Isn’t the earth over populated and less people would be better for the environment? (www.reddit.com)
Why do so many texts that deal with Philosophy depict the views of certain Philosophers rather than engaging with them with arguments? (www.reddit.com)
Was all currency in Ancient societies in physical form only? Before building a mega project, did an ancient person first need to amass a hoard of physical currency and pay up front, or could things constructed on speculation or credit? (www.reddit.com)
Are there any documented cases of German rank-and-file soldiers objecting to the Holocaust on moral grounds and refusing to follow orders at concentration camps, or otherwise openly challenging those crimes against humanity? If so, what happened to them? (www.reddit.com)
Would a peasant's life in 1000 A.D. be any different than in the year 1300? Would technological advancements have made any meaningful difference to the life of a common peasant? Would a peasant's living standards have been significantly better in 1300? (www.reddit.com)
If one of Psycho-Therapy's main goals is to make us function in unfair capitalist neoliberalism, how can we be truly happy while being conscious of the unfairnesses around us? What philosophers to read about that? (www.reddit.com)
Would radiation be "pitch-shifted" (like the Doppler Effect) if it were to hit you while you were going incredibly fast, say half the speed of light? (www.reddit.com)
Where did our modern stereotypical image of a caveman come from, where they wear loin clothes, carry a big club, grunt, hunt sabertooth tigers, and live in a cave come from? And where does the term “caveman” originate? (www.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Matt O'Dowd. AMA about PBS Space Time, my new program to map black holes, and our new film Inventing Reality! (www.reddit.com)
In Europe in the Middle Ages wine and beer were the primary drink, obviously that wasn’t the case in the Medieval Islamic world — what was? Coffee? (www.reddit.com)
Are nuclear bombs radioactive by design or is it the result of the best way of setting off an extremely large explosion in a small package? (www.reddit.com)
Just found a video of a sheep that was lost in the woods for 7 years. It has almost 100 pounds if wool. Do sheep continue to grow wool indefinitely if left alone? What is the evolutionary benefit? (www.reddit.com)
Burke says the right to declare war and peace "is said to reside in a metaphor, shewn at the Tower for sixpence or a shilling a-piece". What is he referring to? (www.reddit.com)
In a letter to his nephew, my Danish 2x great grandfather wrote of leaving Denmark in 1890. All of his brothers left around the same time. What was going on there at the time to cause such flight? What was Denmark like in 1890? like More context/info from letter in comments. (www.reddit.com)
"I introspect too much". Could this sentence be sort of the opposite of the liar paradox? Kind of like an immediately self confirming sentence instead of a self refuting one? (www.reddit.com)
Before modern medicine, one of the things people thought caused disease was "bad air". We now know that this is somewhat true, given airborne transmission. What measures taken to stop "bad air" were incidentally effective against airborne transmission? (www.reddit.com)
What did europeans in the early and mid middle ages make of all the roman stuff around? Roads, structures, etc. Did they know who built them and why, any other details. (www.reddit.com)
I have been hearing/reading a lot over the past few days about the terminal decline of academic history as a profession. Historians of Reddit, how bad is it? (www.reddit.com)
Would it be possible to 'carbonate' a beverage with a gas much heavier or lighter than air, and then when the consumer drinks it, the gas density changes their voice pich? Such as with the helium trick? (www.reddit.com)