Last year, Science Magazine celebrated it's 125th anniversary by looking at the most compelling puzzles and questions facing scientists today. Science explored what they thought were the 125 big questions... the ones we still don't know and will be the subject of scientific inquiry over the next quarter-century. Some of these questions included:
What Is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?
Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?
Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?
How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?
What Controls Organ Regeneration?
What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?
How Does Earth’s Interior Work?
Are We Alone in the Universe?
How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?
Hmmm. Good questions no doubt. However, there are so many things that we still don't know. Here are 20 Questions of my own…
- How can 80s styles, ethically, be brought back into fashion?
- Why do people make strange faces when they orgasm? Is this the same face they make when taking a crap?
- Are some individual’s genes closer to apes than others?
- Why do people continue to be in denial about the ingredients in hot dogs (i.e. blended snouts, ears, organ meat and mechanically separated WHAT?)?
- Why does a bathroom reek long after the feces have been flushed?
- Can chocolate really replace sex?
- What fucked up hormonal concoction enables a person to get wrinkles AND have acne?
- Why do stores still sell tapered jeans? (In order to fully investigate this, perhaps we need to delve in to the question: Why do people still buy tapered jeans?)
- What, if anything, can stop the age-related migration of male hair from the head into the ears and down the back?
- Why is it ok for men to relieve an itchy crotch in public, but not women?
- Is stupid, in fact, as stupid does?
- Is the gene for Foot-in-Mouth Disease sex-linked?
- Is it old age or life stress that causes grey hair?
- Do pets and babies get annoyed at baby talk?
- Why can some men operate complicated machinery, but not know how to use a telephone?
- Can skunks smell their own hole?
- Why can’t two wrongs make a right?
- Do men who like their women Brazilian-waxed have sick pedophilic tendencies?
- How extreme does the treatment need to be (i.e. shock-therapy) to cure a bad case of the rampant affliction known as Cantsaynoitis (also known as Doormat Syndrome)?
- Is there a simple test for determining whether an elliptic curve has an infinite number of rational solutions? (Oops, that one was also in Science, but it has TOTALLY been bugging me!!!)
10 comments:
I've read a few posts and have a few questions about you.
you are 36 and a student? have you changed careers, spent time traveling, prison? just curious
what do you want to be when you grow up?
36 and single, marriage, children, how do you feel about these - have you thought of freezing eggs for future use?
why the strange fascination with bathroom issues? were you raised in a family of boys?
Mich and I met in prison, where we were detained for 10 years and she was my "bitch". She was taught all about bathroom issues there where she also volunteered to have her eggs frozen for future use.
During her prison time, where she was serving a sentence for "being too cute", she also received an undergraduate degree in nutrition, since the food sucked at the prison.
Following her release (since after 10 years, she ain't so cute no more) her present supervisor thought she knew so much stuff about bathroom issues that she would be PERFECT for a PhD candidate in nutrition. You eat it, eventually you have to poop it.
Mich was destined to be living on a hudderite commune in southern Alberta, but she decided that the pregnant and barefoot life was not for her. Plus, those hudderite outfits get caught up in your mouth when you are drinking Gin and sevens at the bar. I think we should be proud of Mich, for overcoming of life of Hudderitism, and prison! She has truly grown into the person I know and love today. (and soon she will be Mich, PhD)
First of all, how the F did it get out that I DID TIME??? Geez, there’s no privacy anymore! Secondly, I’m all for marriage if you can find me a fricken SAINT (he has to be DAMN HOT too, and usually the 2 are mutually exclusive. Oh yeah, and he also has to like me back). Anyways, why would I want to buy the pig when I can get the pork for free!?!?! Thirdly, KIDS? Those little rugrats would tear apart the world as I know it. It’s almost impossible to have kids and be intensely self-absorbed at the same time (although I’m sure it’s been done). I’d also have to make a choice, gin… kids… gin… kids… that’s a tough one because obviously I like both. Plus, I’d have to be, yikes, RESPONSIBLE. Now, that answers the question about growing up; I just never intend to. And this explains my continuous seepage of vulgar bathroom humour, because as long as I never grow up I can be a total juvenile ass. Case in point.
Well folks, this has been another edition of “Mich sucks and here’s why”… stay tuned for the 3 part series, where investigative reporters delve deeeep into these questions and more:
She’s kinda purdy so why is she alone?
How can a person who has so much going for them be such an incredible fuck-up?
Why does Mich insist on pole vaulting over the classy line EVERY TIME?
Is there a secret ingredient in Gin that actually makes her life worth living?
Why do so many Hutterite children strongly resemble Mich?
And finally, if the Hutterite story proves to be bunk, the logical question is:
Why is Mich not selling her eggs on E-bay so that at least others can bear her children?
Lemme guess, anonymous...you are a 42 year old virgin living in your mother's basement and wishing you had someone to play Dungeons and Dragons with since you killed your cute little bunny rabbit.
I wonder what your fascination is with a 36 yr old ex-con, almost PhD hotty? No, she does not moonlight as a dominatrix and she did not go by "Dungeon Lord" in prison.
My curiosity is, what do you want to be when you grow up? Lenny, Kenny or Spenny?
Mich - I found the smelly poo blob!
oh no, wait. Nevermind.
okay, i have one question for anonymous. Why are you wondering if Mich is interested in freezing her eggs? Is it because you are 15 and are hoping in ten years she would be willing to bear your children? You must know she likes the young'uns.
Well anonymous, thanks for the perfect fodder for a long conversation which didn't say much of anything. It was fun though.
I fear that we've now succeeded in scaring away any possible future commenters on my blog. Oopsie daisy. I think my friends assumed that 'anonymous' was male, and hence, potentially creepy. I can see it just being a curious female who isn't quite sure why a chick such as myself would still be in school, not making babies, the whole while telling a multitude of fart jokes.
I recognize my unconventional nature and celebrate it here. That's all.
Wow, I was right about prison, it was a toss up between that, lapsed nun, coma girl or weird circus story. Can't believe I got it right.
Not male, not 42 or 15. 30ish mother, and there are days I wished I would have chosen the gin instead.
As for the frozen eggs, I have a friend my age whose wealthy aunt has offered to do this for her (her own eggs, not her aunts), and I have heard of other like stories as well, guess it's hedging your bets.
No harm intended, just figured you were witty and had to have some stories about how you got to where you are now.
Congrats on the almost phd.
Cool enough anonymous... Uh, I left out the Circus stories, because they were just too weird for this blog and I worry what people will think of me. Either way, I don't regret the, ahem, monkey episode. That one will die with me. Unless of course, I get into the Gin one night and do the fatal mistake of drinking and blogging.
I am glad to know its not creepy stalker. Strange questions overall, but me calling something strange is fairly relative. ;)
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