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- sgiffy, on 05/28/2008, -26/+624Top Ten Things Science Can't Explain Yet.
There, I fixed it for you. - BaseballGuyCAA, on 05/28/2008, -8/+44913. The commercial appeal of Nickelback.
- steger, on 05/28/2008, -9/+301women
- doctorfungi, on 05/28/2008, -0/+168According to a Wall Street Journal article, New York State wildlife expert Richard Thomas found that a woodchuck could chuck around 35 cubic feet of dirt in the course of digging a burrow. Thomas reasoned that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, he would chuck an amount equal to 700 pounds.
Some say it depends on three factors:
The woodchuck's desire to chuck said wood.
The woodchuck's need to chuck the aforementioned wood.
The woodchuck's ability to chuck the wood. - Kisama, on 05/28/2008, -3/+16615. Why I can't uninstall Deus Ex, ever.
- DiggLive, on 05/28/2008, -23/+17612) Lost
- tehbored, on 05/28/2008, -4/+154Actually I think you have to replace "can't" with "hasn't," otherwise it seems grammatically awkward.
- ileftfark, on 05/28/2008, -5/+152But cats always land right side up. Tape buttered toast to a cat, and drop it- prepare to divide by zero, my friend.
- inactive, on 05/28/2008, -23/+14916. Why is Bill O'Reilly still on the air?
- MikeMigs, on 05/28/2008, -2/+127supercollider goes on this summer and we may come closer to the answer to #1
- jmkiii, on 05/28/2008, -57/+17811. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- MaxObliteration, on 05/28/2008, -6/+11217. Why people post things that are on more than one page.
- pyro12, on 05/28/2008, -7/+103Good article, bad title. Science will be able to explain most, maybe even all of those things eventually; the answers are out there they just haven't been found yet. Frankly I'm glad there's so many mysteries left to explore, world would be a pretty boring place without them!
- PrintScrn12, on 05/28/2008, -2/+85The question of what purpose the female orgasm evolved is a bit misleading. Characteristics don't evolve to a purpose. Rather characteristics which encourage replication become more dominant. In this case see what characteristics encourage replication can ultimately be a question of interpretation. Perhaps orgasms encourage attachment to a mate, sex or fertility .Of course merely being vestigial itself is a viable explanation. An issue would be how to test some of the more social/psychological ideas. Testing within current society doesn't represent the society in which humanity evolved, unlike wilder animals. For example seeing if orgasms encourage sex in the current UK or US might not be relevant as to whether orgasm encouraged sex for our far ancestors.
- s0m31john, on 05/28/2008, -28/+108Let's fill in the gaps with God!
- LittleDas, on 05/28/2008, -1/+78Go Go Grammar Team!
- 333cale, on 05/28/2008, -0/+74And therefore you have to replace "explain" with "explained" otherwise the tense is out of context.
- DeskFlyer, on 05/28/2008, -21/+9414. Why the toast always lands butter side down.
- inactive, on 05/28/2008, -7/+7810. The WOW! signal
Wow, a secret message from outer space! Twenty years on and still no nearer an answer.
9. Pioneer's Funky Voyage
The creators of these deviant probes are ripping their hair out trying to understand what went wrong.
8. Female Orgasms
After a whole lot of thinking, biology’s best minds are still confused.
7. Dark Energy
The universe is a dark, dark place, which makes it ruddy difficult to study.
6. The Speed of Light
Faster than a speeding photon: is it possible? Einstein stays no, but does everyone else?
5. The Placebo Effect
Take this pill and you’ll be cured, just as long as you believe me.
4. Cold Fusion
Can atoms get together and let off some steam without the sauna?
3. Yawning
Open your mouth and notice the shockingly fascinating mystery of the yawn.
2. Dark Matter
Just because you can’t see the WIMPs and MACHOs doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
1. What Came Before, What Will Come After
Wouldn't it be really boring if it was just blackness. However, anyone's guess is as good as ours. - slkuhn, on 05/28/2008, -1/+66As much wood as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
- tehbored, on 05/28/2008, -13/+78I always thought the muscle contractions in a female orgasm helped move the sperm to the egg by tilting the uterus.
- h4mx0r, on 05/28/2008, -1/+59Because he ***** it and does it LIVE!
- Silencer7, on 05/28/2008, -0/+54"How many boards would the Mongols hoard
if the Mongol hordes got bored?"
::pauses::
::crumples paper:: - nreynolds, on 05/28/2008, -7/+61supercollider? I just met her!
- sgiffy, on 05/28/2008, -4/+57Actually the scientific process is, so far, the only means by which we can come to anything approaching real truth.
- Maxbliss, on 05/28/2008, -15/+6411. What do women want? No, srsly, wtf do women want?
- negativenancy, on 05/28/2008, -0/+47I... concur.
*sips tea* - xtinamo, on 05/28/2008, -5/+51Busted.
http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/page/Buttere ... - Disease, on 05/28/2008, -1/+47Something science can't explain.
- karel747, on 05/28/2008, -0/+43Another success for the scientific community.
Science: Seeking answers to all of life's mysteries. - bryantee, on 05/28/2008, -1/+43There's a difference between not being able to explain and currently being unknown.
- skyshock1, on 05/28/2008, -3/+42Money, shoes, chocolate, shoes, shoes filled with money, shoes filled with chocolate, chocolate wrapped in money, chocolate shoes filled with money, money shaped chocolate filled in shoes.... etc ad nauseum.
- truebeliever83, on 05/28/2008, -2/+40How about gravity? We know exactly how it works, but WHY mass attracts other mass is still completely unknown . . . at least to me anyways.
- tian2992, on 05/28/2008, -0/+37Something Science Can't Explain Yet.
There, I fixed it for you. - iDiggIt42, on 05/28/2008, -4/+4113. What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
- tian2992, on 05/28/2008, -0/+36Science: It works Bitches.
There you go, I fixed it for you! - m1th, on 05/28/2008, -1/+37I disagree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder
- karel747, on 05/28/2008, -3/+38That depends. European or African swallow?
- pyro12, on 05/28/2008, -2/+36Science is the method we use to find out about our world and the universe. True it can't answer EVERYTHING (well, theoretically it might, but practically there are far too many things that can never be experimentally tested) but it's the best we've got.
- buckrogers1965, on 05/28/2008, -0/+31They are such losers... obviously they buttered the wrong side. :)
- inactive, on 05/28/2008, -2/+33The only problem is that there's only one alternative, and that's just making ***** up. Not exactly the next best thing.
- db0255, on 05/28/2008, -1/+31what just happened...
- db0255, on 05/28/2008, -8/+3819. digg users.
- karel747, on 05/28/2008, -1/+30But then, the African swallow is non-migratory.
- suwoo244, on 05/28/2008, -32/+6017. Why Hilary is still in the race.
Oh wait, thats mathematics... - SolidSnak, on 05/28/2008, -2/+29243. If a tree falls in a forest.....
- Whaines, on 05/28/2008, -0/+27Something Science Hasn't Explained Yet.
There, I fixed it even more. - desertDenizen, on 05/28/2008, -0/+26I've heard this too, lots of times. And a couple of other hypotheses, like promoting emotional pair-bonding with her partner, and causing the female to be exhausted to stay in a reclined position, etc. This article is weak.
- mstrebe, on 05/28/2008, -2/+27Science has already explained the female orgasm. Women are significantly more likely to become pregnant during female orgasm because the uterus essentially suctions the sperm from the vaginal canal. A recent Danish study actually showed the effect happening CT scans.
In societies (and species) where a female normally has more than one partner in a day, the female orgasm creates a biological mechanism for the female to control mate selection: The male to whom the female is most attracted to is most likely to father her child, amongst the set of males with whom she has sex.
It's only a mystery in monogamous societies where the idea of women having multiple partners is heretical. - romistrub, on 05/28/2008, -3/+27How is that unexplainable? People that don't really "listen" to music - they just use it as background noise - love Nickelback. Make sense? I think it's appealing to unconscious listening because it's simple.
That being said, I ***** hate Nickelback. -
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