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Tree stump growth and treehouses

If you cut down a 40-foot (12-meter) Norway maple to a height of 6 to 10 feet (about 2 meters) and you build a platform on the stump (either on the cut trunk or just above where the trunk branches in...
22:48 Sat 24th Oct 20093 answers, last by Notmyrealnam 00:29 Mon 26th Oct 2009
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Fish skeletons

My son, who is 8, was looking at a piece of salmon and asked: Why do fish have tiny little bones? I told him that their skeletons don't have to hold them up against the force of gravity. He said...
21:40 Sat 14th Apr 20071 answer, last by lugus 01:55 Sun 15th Apr 2007
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Cooked salmon anatomy

My son (who is 7) asks: Why is it that when you eat salmon with a fork, it breaks into neat little bits with bones between them?
02:10 Mon 06th Nov 2006
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Upside-down eyeballs

If a person's eye were taken out and then put back in upside down, would the person see upside-down? (Asked by my seven-year-old son.)
15:51 Fri 22nd Sep 200616 answers, last by stevie21 23:29 Sun 24th Sep 2006
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Viscosity and molecule size

Is it true that the larger the size of the molecules, the more viscous the substance? (Original version of question, asked by my son: Why is water liquid and not gooey?)
21:58 Wed 30th Aug 20065 answers, last by Gef 18:52 Thu 31st Aug 2006
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Water Content of Plastic and Everything Else On Earth

My seven-year-old says, "There's water in everything, right, even in the desert sands? Is there water in this plastic? In this cookie? In your glasses?" I said yes to desert sands; I...
21:24 Sun 20th Aug 20067 answers, last by Notmyrealnam 19:58 Sun 27th Aug 2006

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