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What do you think of "Thought-provoking Questions"?
Examples of thought-provoking Questions:
# Why there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
# Why you don’t ever see the headline: “Psychic Wins Lottery”?
# Why “abbreviated” is such a long word?
# Why Doctors call what they do “practice”?
# Why you have to click on “Start” to stop ‘Windows’?
# Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?
# Why there isn’t mouse flavoured cat food?
# If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
# Whose idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?
# Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are dead?
# Why brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells are forever?
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#Your body temperature is about 300 K. At what wavelength do you radiate most strongly? What region of the electromagnetic spectrum is this? Do you understand now how a rattlesnake can bite you in the dark?
# If you added more water or carbon dioxide to our atmosphere, how would it alter the loss of heat from our planet? Would you expect the Earth to get warmer or colder? Why?
# If you were to look at the spectrum of the gas flame of a stove or the blue part of a Bunsen burner flame, what sort of spectrum would you expect to see—Absorption, emission, or continuous? Why?
# Given that water absorbs microwaves very strongly, can you explain why a Pop-Tart gets very hot inside while its crust stays cool if you heat it in a microwave oven?
# Why don’t atoms emit a continuous spectrum?
I love them, some make you stop and think, others make you stop and think(what did he just ask!?!)
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