Category: Mini Conjectures
When fighter planes were first developed the pilots flew around the skies at about 100kmph and attempted to fire hand pistols at each other and even tried dangling grappling hooks from their planes like...
In the 1920s a paper was published where the methods were horrific but at least they got some very interesting results. Two scientists took a nine month old baby they named Albert, placed him...
Usain Bolt is fast but is he faster than electricity? Well…Yes, yes he is. In fact so are you. Electrons, as their name suggests, are the stuff of electricity. They are the negative subatomic...
Why do daffodils pop through the soil creating stunning landscapes only to retreat back under 3 weeks later? The answer (like most other biological questions) is evolution, but the specific factors of daffodil evolution...
Growing evidence suggests that X-rays and CT scans do not cause cancer! 70 year old ideas led us down the garden path. A review published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology has nicely...
Allergies are our body mistaking harmless organic stuff as nasty microbes! Got a Metal Allergy? How did your body mix up metals and viruses? Your immune cells release (and are covered in) proteins which...
Bigger animal species have bigger brains. They may not be more intelligent, for example an elephant’s brain is five times bigger than ours, you just need more brain cells to run a bigger body....
We don’t know how lightning is able to reach the ground, the air should not conduct electricity well enough. One theory is that cosmic rays create a highway of charged particles and the lightning...