Huh? What about it?
Well, for starters - how come there is a whole passel of laws relating to genetic discrimination, basically in the nature of “you can’t do it”, but there isn’t a single law regarding memetic discrimination?
Not only does it exist in fact, it’s vicious - if you are carrying the wrong [...]

Back in 1992, very quietly, a group of scientists announced a phenomenon that few humans are aware of to this day: . That’s right, there are women out there—thousands, if not millions, of women—who can actually think their way to an orgasm. Dig:
orgasm (n.) 1684, from Fr. orgasme, from Gk. orgasmos “excitement, swelling,” from [...]

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Nightwalking :
Exploring the dark with Peripheral Vision
by
Nelson Zink and Stephen Parks
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It all began one afternoon a couple of years ago. We were talking about people who have the ability to see farther or more deeply or more clearly than the rest of us, those exceptional individuals who can easily master complexity and ambiguity and [...]

As a kid, I read a book by George Gamow, entitled “1, 2, 3… Infinity” - it was written (I think) sometime in the 40’s, and I found it on the book-rack at the Bleriot PX in Paris, and took it to summer camp at La Rochelle with me. Even then, I had gotten into [...]

Of course you don’t. But… do you think it makes a damn what you think or what you want? If you’re looking at the TOC on the Daily Question’s Front Page, click on Read More to see this picture, otherwise you won’t know what the hell we’re talking about here. The picture is of a [...]

Here is a really interesting tool, called JPL Small-Body Database Browser - I think I wrote about it somewhere else, but it may have been an email.
Bring this thing up and try several different comet and asteroid names and check out the orbits. Of particular interest will be Encke, Biela, Hermes, Apophis. Come back with [...]

There is a considerable mountain of evidence of number systems other than our familiar decimal system - 12 and 20 come to mind easily.
If you lived in the UK in the “old days”, you saw both of them combined, in the somewhat bizarre monetary values: 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound.
But [...]

Yes.No.Maybe.Maybe Not.
The truth is, we can’t sense it.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
The (in)famous Michelson-Morley experiment is widely believed to have proven that the Aether does not exist. Nearly everyone who has ever heard - or read - the words “Michelson-Morley” believes that their experiment(s) and some subsequent ones proved that in fact [...]