Say I am an Italian lord in the 10th century, considering that many of the foods we would associate with being Italian don't exist yet, and many new world ingredients are yet to be discovered. What would I ACTUALLY eat? (www.reddit.com)
In the Village People song, "YMCA", the group describes that you can "stay there" to "get yourself clean" and "have a good meal" at the Y. How has the mission of the YMCA changed since 1978 and was the song an accurate reflection of the practices in 1978? (www.reddit.com)
Why don't cops think about the repercussions of beating someone to death, not even just shooting and murdering people, with them having body cams, people recording and social media to spread the evidence of the police brutality? (www.reddit.com)
The Aztecs believed men had a finite amount of semen and should limit their sex life so they wont be "worn out" like modern Christianity tells unmarried women. Does this imply male virginity was prized for marriage like female virginity is in modern purity culture? (www.reddit.com)
In 1979 Sadam Hussein performed a political purge on the Ba'ath party via the coerced confession of Abdul-Hussein. Who was Abdul-Hussein? (www.reddit.com)
What response did Yukio Mishima's suicide elicit from Japanese society (and from the rest of the world), and how is his legacy framed today amidst different parts of Japanese culture/politics today? (www.reddit.com)
"D knows P if D has excluded everything that contradicts with P." When can you have knowledge of P and you have not excluded everything that contradicts with P? We ought to acknowledge that dreams would undermine knowledge? But what else. (www.reddit.com)
When The Godfather was released, Mafioso started dressing and talking like characters in the movie. Did the release of The Sopranos have a similar reaction? Did mobsters start wearing polo shirts and talking in Jersey accents? (www.reddit.com)
Is my union rep right to say that most of the labour rights currently enjoyed in the UK are the result of trade union action or influence? (www.reddit.com)
Can boyfriends and girlfriends celebrate anniversaries? My mom and stepdad think it's weird that I celebrate my anniversary with my boyfriend (www.reddit.com)
In the live performance of The Lady is a Tramp”, Frank Sinatra ad-libs “she’d never mess with a ‘smuck’ that she’d hate” and then immediately says “that’s not dirty, not the way I said it”. What did he mean? (www.reddit.com)
I'm Dr. Mohammed Rasool Qtaishat, an Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Jordan. My work on desalination using solar energy could make potable water more accessible. AMA! (www.reddit.com)
Does scientific anti-realism imply solipsism? If we can't assume non-observables are ontologically real, what does that mean for the problem of other minds? (www.reddit.com)
What did Wolff exactly mean when he wrote, "Philosophical anarchism would seem to be the only reasonable political belief for an enlightened man”? (www.reddit.com)
If we are alive for a finite amount of time and dead for an infinite amount of time, shouldn’t the odds of existing right now be virtually zero? (www.reddit.com)
Did people in the Middle Ages have a way of indicating laughter in their letters, similar to how we use emoticons or text to indicate laughter in our messages? (www.reddit.com)
In Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor praises people who are not superstitious. What did he consider as superstitious and would his view be shared by the average roman of his time? (www.reddit.com)
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Are there any instances in history where scientists stopped to think and halted something before it even began? (www.reddit.com)
what was the loudest sound in history? Natural or man made, doesn’t matter. Doesn’t have to be recorded either. If there was something that occurred that was beyond a reasonable doubt the loudest noise ever (www.reddit.com)
If Camus thought that life, properly understood, was impossible to legitimize or justify, and was critical of the idea of "subjective meaning," how can he also think that suicide is of little value to us? (www.reddit.com)
When and how did bagels become associated with Jewish culture? What are some early primary sources (from Jewish or Gentile authors) concerning this association? (www.reddit.com)
Married women who have both an engagement ring and a wedding ring for your marriage, what's your preference for how you wear them and whether you wear one or both? (www.reddit.com)
Why did 1993 Battle of Mogadishu with 18 US casualties elicit rather dramatic domestic political response, just two years after 1991 Desert Storm, which allegedly was expected to inflict thousands of casualties? (www.reddit.com)
Every time I mention Ronald Reagan to my father, he says that he "arguably won the Cold War". Was Reagan's presidency an important factor in ending the Could War? (www.reddit.com)
Why do many non gamers assume that gaming is some time suck that they can't afford? Most single player games are the same length as a season of a TV show. (www.reddit.com)
Is there a limit to how "meta" a subject can be? Like if "metaphilosophy" is the "philosophy of philosophy" then can you have "meta-metaphilosophy" and so on? (www.reddit.com)
Women who performed oral sex on your partners before marriage but who stopped doing so after marriage, why did that change and what effect did that have on whether you wanted to receive oral sex from your partner? (www.reddit.com)
Do primary sources from the late Roman Empire have a sense that the Roman political order was coming to an end? Did they have a sense of "impending doom"? (www.reddit.com)
Why did most civilizations in history with access to wheat flour opt to make flatbreads whereas European breads used yeast and other cultures to create risen bread? (www.reddit.com)
Ho Chi Minh was one of many Vietnamese students who studied in France during Vietnam's colonial period. What was their daily life like? How did the French perceive them? Did they form a Vietnamese "community"? (www.reddit.com)
What is a good, simple counterargument to the whole "if the library of alexandria wasn't destroyed, we would be in space now" and such? (www.reddit.com)
My girlfriend wants me to change my underwear choice. I currently wear briefs and she wants me to change to boxer briefs. She says I need to throw out everything and buy new ones, should I do as she says? (www.reddit.com)
What is a neurotransmitter "turnover rate", with reference to acetylcholine? What does it mean if the turnover rate is increased or decreased? (www.reddit.com)