Only 10? 

How can those big fuzzy bumblebees hover and fly with those tiny wings?

Yeah, there are hundreds of questions puzzling scientists. That's what science is about. Finding what question to ask and then searching for the answer which may then open up new questions for which to search for answers which may then...(ad infinitum)

This is why I love science. Always something new to learn, sometimes about something you already thought you understood.

Mendalla

There are millions of questions being pondered by scientists today.

Again, I'm sorry that science has not confirmed your delusions, but the purpose of science is not to make you feel better about your beliefs.

Why do people spontaneously combust?

Because they think they know how transform mass into energy, and foolishly try it on themselves. Playing God, as it were.

That wouldn't cause spontaneous combustion so much as a nuclear-scale explosion. That amount of matter being instantaneously transformed into energy would likely take out a small city, maybe even a big one. E=mc^2 and all that, you know.

Mendalla

Thanks for setting me straight, Mendalla, but my remark actually was bit of a joke. I should have put a  behind it.

Yogis have been known to increase the temperature of any body part, or even their whole body, by a few degrees, with concentrated imagination. But this never went as far as spontaneous combustion, or did it?

I know Yogi exercises can be powerful indeed. I meditated myself to the edge of death via the Yogic Breakthrough Exercise, but never tried to increase my body temperature. Maybe some people did, and went too far, just as it possible to go too far with the Breakthrough Exercise and really die.

And here I thought spontaneous combustion was possible through the activity of aerobic bacteria in the gut getting carried away, similar to spontaneous combustion in damp peat moss and compost.

Yes, Jim, I am familiar with spontaneous combustion in hay. Farmers have lost their hay stacks or barns due to it. This also happened in piles of sawdust or wood shavings at some saw mills, and it happens in peat bogs.

Dcn. Jae asked why people spontaneously combust. Do they really combust for that reason?

I've heard of people getting hot under the collar, but I've never heard of anyone who combusted spontaneously. Are there authenticated cases of this? Or is it just another urban legend?

Mythbusters had an episode several years ago in which they investigated the cause of a spontaneous combustion "epidemic" that had happened back in the 1930s, I think.  They found it was related to a particular fertilizer being used at the time.

Bull manure?

That's what I thought!

[quote=Dcn. Jae]

1. Why do we yawn?

Mother nature allows us to open our mouths without saying something silly.

2. Why do people spontaneously combust?

A question only you would ask . Some people are just more combustible (Obviously)  

3. Why do placebos work?

Because people want them to.

4. What was life's last universal common ancestor?

A one cell creature with a desire to breed.

5. How does memory work?

I don't know . What was the question?

6. Can animals really predict earthquakes?

Sure. So could you if you have four feet.

7. How do organs know when to stop growing?

When the music is off key.

8. Are there human pheromones?

How else to attract them wimmin? By smelling good.

9.What's the deal with gravity?

Ask a Higgs Boson.

10. How many species are there?

More than you are able to count. (And we're still counting)

Source:  mentalfloss

Ah. Floss everyday. A clean brain is really good.

This reminds me of the math prof who told my class, with a smile, that Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem guaranteed that mathematicians would never run out of theorems to prove.

And scientists will never run out of hypotheses to prove.

i was watching 60 minutes last night and there was a really interesting piece on babies and a study of whether humans are born with morality.  one step closer to answering a pretty big question.  their study offers pretty interesting results.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50135408n

I caught that myself, Moms.  Interesting.  I remember observing my babies over forty years ago.  People told me that they couldn't focus, couldn't respond, couldn't think - yet at a few days old my son was lifting his head to gaze at the soft light from the nightlight near his bed.  He was turning towards my voice.  He was responding to me.  And before long he was smiling.  Gas, I was told.  It was not gas.  It was in response to seeing something that he liked.     I was busier with my second baby in less than 13 months - I didn't notice as much about her infancy.  But I am sure that she had personality, likes and dislikes - that she looked at people and objects and responded to them - just as her brother had - just as the babies in these experiments did.   Still, a few things in that show surprised me - the obvious choices that babies made based on behaviour rather than looks.   And the older child actually giving the larger (as opposed to the equal) share to another person.  I'm not sure I would do that.

Only extremely religious people believe they can think with everything (god) when much of everything is lost to us as we don't respect the whole thing!

This makes us a sort of cast off in the kingdom that's all about us ... something that we don't know ... about our being on the wrong side of the horizonevent .. an ungodly incident to show extended Smartbottoms the higher side? Piles of chir to learn ...

Difficult to get this across to institutionalized sorts tho' ... and they believe me crazy. You should see it from the other side ... as Steven Harking said when you cross it everything bends the other way ... one should stay away from that fixation ... right .. Dark Holes that is where Plato determined there were mysteries ... caveman theology?