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SunRayce '01 - The New We're
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We're Science was given a possible second lease on life! Unfortunately, it didn't work out, but here's the latest show, with two new hosts! | |
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#260 - The Final We're Science (recorded 12/99 |
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(recorded 10/99
- How do astronauts go to the bathroom in zero gravity?
- What causes wind?
- Does a NW wind mean the wind is coming from or going to the northwest?
- What is dryer lint?
- Why do the plugs on our appliances have one prong wider than the other?
- Can mammals breath oxygen-rich liquids, or is that just in the movies?
- Would a person's weight be different on the equator?
- Do electrons actually pass through wires, or just go back and forth?
- Does a fully charged battery weigh more than a dead one?
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- If you fill up a car's tire with air while the car is up on a rack, does the pressure increase when the is back on the ground?
- Sometimes we can feel air moving inside our car, even with all the windows closed. Why is this?
- Why is caffiene put in soda?
- What are the five lowest places on Earth?
- What color in the spectrum makes a child's glow-in-the-dark toy glow?
- Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an astronaut? Here is an interview with NASA veteran Mark Lee.
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- What are cold sores, and how do we get them?
- Why does it hurt to bite aluminum foil?
- Do fish communicate?
- What is the difference between baking soda and baking powder?
- Is there any truth to the claims of "oxygenated water?"
- Why does distant thunder seem to continuously rumble?
- How does the lead get in a pencil?
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- Can eating canned tuna that's more than three years old be harmful?
- If a lightbulb is turned on in a light-tight box lined with mirrors and then turned off, will it bounce around in there forever?
- How does water put out fire?
- Why do eyeglasses fog up?
- Does the guarana seed come from a berry or cherry like coffee beans?
- Is weight training useful in middle age?
- Why is snow white and water colorless?
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- How long does it take a cell to reproduce?
- What are the contributing factors to slippage of ice and how much pressure is required to melt the ice?
- Is it reasonable to describe pearls as oyster snot?
- How do herbivores and carnivores get the right nutrients?
- Do caffeine and sugar really make us hyper?
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- How do air fresheners work?
- What happens when you break the speed of light?
- Why do kids have so much more energy than adults?
- Why can't you breathe when you have the wind knocked out of you?
- Does coffee that is consumed without a filter contain more cholesterol than filtered coffee?
- How do motion detectors work?
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- Do laundry disks really work?
- If one is in a vehicle moving at the speed of light, could they see their headlights?
- When someone eats a lot of red meat, does it make them aggressive?
- How are traffic lights controlled?
- Does the roasting of the coffee bean have anything to do with the caffeine level?
- Does standing with your eyes closed facing the sun do anything?
- How do you get the oil off your fingers after cooking hot peppers?
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- How can one see a round rainbow with the shadow of a jet plane in it?
- Is there any truth to 'Liquor, beer, never fear; beer, liquor, never sicker'?
- Does pouring beer down the middle of the glass really make a bigger head?
- How do two mirrors placed at 45 degrees make a correct image?
- Why does the computer screen seem to roll sometimes when it's seen on television but not on Computer Chronicle?
- Why do commercial airliners not use the passing air to spin the landing gear?
- Can we see satellites with the naked eye?
- Are the effects of gravity instantaneous or does it propagate at the speed of light?
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- Since Pluto and Neptune's orbits cross each other, is there a possibility they could collide?
- How long does it take for the sun to set, and does it vary by changing latitudes?
- Why does the shadow moving across the moon during an eclipse appear to go diagonally?
- If our body temperature is 98.6 degrees, why doesn't a 98.6 degree temperature feel comfortable?
- What makes soda fizz more when you shake it?
- If a styrofoam cup is crushed at the bottom of the ocean, will it still float?
- What are the squiggly things you see floating around in your eyes?
- What makes us make the burp sound if the burp doesn't pass through the vocal cords?
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- How can someone in Brownsville TX pick up an FM station in Shreveport LA?
- How does a black hole trap and hold light?
- How do glow sticks work?
- How come mirrors display a backwards image but not an upside-down one?
- Why does a car's air conditioner blow in the original direction once the car makes a turn?
- Does antimatter exist, and can it be used as a propulsion system?
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- If the earth is traveling at 30,000 miles per hour, why can't we feel it?
- What causes an itching sensation under one's shoulder blade when one scratches their stomach?
- Is there a recognized center of the universe?
- What causes people to yawn?
- Why don't duck's quacks echo?
- If a radio station is west of a city, can one turn on enough radios west of the city to block the station east of the city?
- Why is it called a hot water heater when you don't heat hot water?
- When does a pond become a lake and when does a hill become a mountain?
- Can bumblebees fly?
- Why are the footsteps of man and dinosaur fossilized at the same level?
- Why does popcorn pop and other corn not pop?
- What is the gas emitted from decaying foam rubber?
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- When you drop a piece of bread covered with peanut butter, does the peanut-butter line peanut-butter-side-up or down?
- How are some creatures able to survive water pressure at great depths?
- If the path of the moon was observed from above the solar system, what would it look like?
- What is white gold, what is rose gold, what makes 18K gold less pure, and is the Karat used to measure gold also used to measure diamonds?
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- Why does one sneeze when they walk from a closed room into open sunlight?
- When you place a pop in the refrigerator, why does it take hours to make it cold but once it is taken out it warms up really fast?
- Why do radio signals come in from distant cities at night?
- How can exhaled air be both cool and warm?
- Why does a whip crack?
- If you leave tapwater in an open container in sunlight, would it remove impurities?
- When you put ice cubes in warm soda, why does it fizz?
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- How do Mars and Earth move closer together?
- Why do some people's feet smell worse than others?
- Why do we take our used oil to recycling centers instead of returning it to the ground?
- Why should rifle or bow hunters always aim low?
- Do we really use only 10% of our brains?
- How does garlic lower cholesterol?
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- Why does 98 degree heat seem hot but 98 degree water seem cooler?
- When you get hit in the head and see stars, what are you really seeing?
- Why do batteries go bad in hot weather?
- When bats sleep upside down, why doesn't the blood rush to their heads?
- If dogs don't sweat, why do they smell so bad?
- Can we see satellites with the naked eye?
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- What are the characteristics of reptiles?
- How can you tell if a spider is a black widow?
- Why is algae used in ice cream?
- How was the speed of light determined?
- If animals evolved from other animals because the environment changed, then why do those other animals still exist?
- How does the human body constantly regulate its temperature to 98.6 degrees?
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- Why don't the big three auto makers use the rotary engine?
- How does electrolysis work?
- Can water cause enough friction to generate heat?
- Why does skin wrinkle when we grow old?
- How come rockets have smaller fins now than they did in the 1950s?
- Why does activated dry yeast works faster than other yeasts?
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- When a seemingly dead seed is planted in the ground, what causes a plant to grow?
- Where does water come from?
- How can you count the distance between you and lightning?
- Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Do ice cubes ever freeze and re-melt?
- How can a gas refrigerator (which uses a flame) be used to cool things?
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- Do mushrooms grow?
- Have the north and south poles reverse themselves?
- Why can't things get magnetized in space?
- What causes sounds to become higher as we approach them and lower as we pass them?
- How does one get rid of spiders?
- How do they take the caffeine out of coffee?
- What is the octane in gasoline?
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- If an infant's eye color goes from blue to brown, how does that explain the dominant-recessive gene factor?
- Would frozen gasoline burn?
- Are time and space calculated from the direct ratio of interplanetary magnetism to solar radiation?
- If rocketships are propelled into space through rocket power, how do they accelerate in space if they have nothing to push against?
- Why does a shower drip even after it is turned off?
- What is the difference between endoplasm and ectoplasm?
- Do dolphins perspire like other mammals?
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- How does a chicken create an egg and how long does this take?
- How do bees make perfect hexagonal honeycombs and how do they make the wax?
- If the earth rotated the other way, would time go backwards?
- When watching old western movies, why do the wheels appear to go backwards?
- Are daddy-long-legs poisonous?
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- What makes the color of tomatoes change when they ripen?
- Why are rainbows in the shape of an arc?
- Are some babies born with brown eyes?
- Why doesn't it thunder during snowstorms?
- Why does the surface of some spray cans get colder after use?
- How come some sounds don't harmonize? Why does Eastern music sound strange to Western listeners?
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- What are vitamins?
- Why don't insects bleed when their legs are pulled off?
- Why is the sun red when it rises and sets?
- How do they get uranium atoms to collide in nuclear reactors?
- Where does the white go when the snow melts?
- How is the color brown produced, and why doesn't brown appear in the rainbow?
- What elements are octane made of?
- What do the We're Science guys do in real life?
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- How fast do electrons travel and why do they move?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Does a nautilus squirt black ink like a squid?
- Is microwave use hazardous to our health?
- Why do we close our eyes when we sneeze?
- How do we know the sun is made of layers and how is the sun's temperature measured?
- What is the most stable element in the universe?
- What are other dating methods besides carbon dating?
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- If dynamite was detonated in a sealed box capable of withstanding the explosion, what would happen to the energy?
- How far is a light year?
- Which animals see colors?
- When batteries are hooked up in series, would equal current be drawn from each battery?
- Why does blueing clothes whiten them?
- How are antigravity chambers made?
- Where does all the salt go when it's done melting the snow on the road?
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- Why does the pitch of the water pipe get higher as the temperature of the water gets hotter?
- Why are the sun and moon larger in the horizon?
- What is in a bee sting that can cause pain for a long time?
- How does a one-way glass work? If this glass was formed into a sphere, what would it look like?
- How can salt melt snow on a sidewalk but freeze homemade ice cream?
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- Do bugs have intestines like we do?
- How do airplanes' engines compensate for the change in altitude?
- Why does the earth not leave an airplane behind when it takes off?
- Why can someone bruise really badly after one shot but not at all after another?
- In the periodic table of elements, as you move across a period the size of the atom decreases, so why does it increase for inert gases?
- Were human footprints really found on the same strata as dinosaur footprints?
- How do lichens grow?
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- If a bullet was shot out of a gun and another was dropped, would the curvature of the earth come into play as to which bullet would hit the ground first?
- If trees are hard, how do they make soft paper from wood?
- If a black hole attracts light because of its gravitational pull, then can the speed of light be changed by a black hole?
- Why isn't the longest day of the year the hottest and the shortest the coldest?
- Does tap water remove impurities in water?
- Why are conservative politicians so anti-environment?
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- With all the empty space in an atom, why aren't we invisible?
- How can one approximate the air temperature from listening to crickets chirp?
- How do paper negatives work?
- On a calm lake, do all waves travel at the same speed ?
- Why are there less bugs on one's windshield now compared to past years?
- How are board-feet figures calculated out of a stand of trees?
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- If you put a lightbulb in and left it on, how would it change its lifespan?
- What makes mosquito bites itch most in the morning?
- Are mosquitos more attracted to one person than another?
- If all manmade satellites will crash into the earth, will the moon do the same? Does air cool or heat things?
- Why are babies' eyes blue?
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- Are potatoes poisonous when they're green?
- What chemicals cause the different colors in fireworks?
- How old is the sun and how can we estimate that?
- What is an odor and why are some pleasant and others obnoxious?
- If protons are all positively charged, why doesn't the force from the charges make atoms fly apart?
- Does grape juice turn to a right polarization?
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- Why does cutting paper dull scissors faster than cutting cloth?
- How can one thoroughly wash strawberries to get rid of any bacteria or chemical residue?
- If airplanes are designed to fly by air passing over the tops, how can they fly upside down?
- Where are the Northern Lights visible and where and when can they be seen best?
- Why do we close our eyes when eating something sour?
- How are photo negatives used today different from the negatives from the Civil War era?
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- If a lightbulb is lit in a dark room and registers on a mirror, if it's reflected off the mirror would the reading double?
- In meteorology, how can a high pressure be over a low pressure?
- What color are tornadoes?
- When helium is liquid, why does it flow up?
- What is colloidal silver?
- How much of the planet's plant and animal life does it take to produce enough oxygen to sustain life?
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- When Lavoisier built his furnace, how could he have measured the temperature?
- Does the US government have any secret space programs going on? Why is the government so secret about UFOs?
- Why are bugs attracted to manmade light during the night?
- What kind of material makes up acne?
- If there are lasers and masers, why aren't there similar applications for x-rays and electrons?
- Would a human being be able to breathe in the center of a tornado?
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- What is a black hole?
- Why does human hair grow so long?
- Does changing the temperature setting on your hot water heater actually save money?
- How much does body temperature differ between person to person? Which body temperatures cause shivering? Do depressed people have different body temperatures?
- Are water vapor and steam the same thing?
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- Why does 'lb' stand for pound?
- Is it safe to have warm water sitting around before it is brewed to make coffee?
- Why does the midwest have more lightning and thunderstorms than the west?
- If someone gets a shock when they get out of their truck, is the problem the truck or them?
- Why do different planets have different gravities?
- Does wearing a hat kill hair growth?
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- Does an oxygen tank weigh more full than empty?
- Why are there more ladybugs in recent years and why do insect infestations happen?
- Can dyes and fibers from one's clothing be used to identify them?
- Is indoor air pollution a risk?
- What are the criteria for an element, and how do chemists know whether something is an element?
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- If there is a product that is as hard as a diamond but more expensive to make, why is it in use?
- What makes the contrail from a jet plane?
- Is there hypospray in real life as an alternative to vaccinations?
- Why do egg whites whip better in a copper bowl and why does the bowl look cleaner afterwards?
- How does a metal detector work?
- Can a car be made to be completely corrosion-proof?
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