
1. Does music express emotions or just elicit them? Read the next 200 pages to not find out.
- Welldogmycats
2. Girls take birth control. Girls then pee outunmetabolized estrogens from birth control. Pee goes to water treatment plant,estrogens not treated, male fish become female fish.
- Altzul
3. Nanoparticles are weird and I accidentally made a bomb and electrocuted myself.
-M33
4. People trying meditation for the first time getaroused.
- PainMatrix
5. When I get rid of this gene, it messes the brain up. Alot.
- NeuroscienceNerd
6. Computer AI systems can learn tooperate a warp drive and automatically build an instructional system to trainpeople how to do it. My dissertation is probably the only one in existence toreference the Star Trek technical manual.
- DrBiometrics
7. My experimental drug does NOT cure addiction.
- NotSoCleverPork
8. Making new magnets from old magnets because we'rerunning out of magnets.
- IAmAHiggsBoson
9. Inpatients with schizophrenia are happier andsocialize more in the context of a music listening group. It was obvious beforewe began the project and we learned nothing.
- Wouldyestap
10. Little things stick together. Here's a slightlyeasier way to calculate their stickiness.
- Born2bwire
11. There are amoebas living in volcanos, but I nevercaptured Bigfoot on film (I tried).
- RNAPII
12. We can take random pieces of bacterial DNA frombeaver poop and put them into other bacteria to discover new things, like howto break wood down into biofuels. Yes, I had to dissect dead beavers and handletheir poop.
- Geneius
13. This protein looks like it might contribute toasthma. Oh, turns out it probably doesn't.
- Bear_Ear_Fritters
14. I crunch numbers using a supercomputer in the hopesof ensuring a fusion reactor in France doesn't get fried on the inside.
- PhysicsFornicator
15. Two proteins touch each other in a specific place inthe developing heart. No idea if it's important for anything.
- Penguinpaige
16. I can make models of galaxies in a computer, but Ican't explain why they don't act like real ones. Even if I bash them togetheror stir them around.
- McMillan_Astro
17. People sometimes think about animals as if they'repeople. People like those animals a little more than regular animals. Exceptwhen they don't. I can't believe they gave me a PhD.
- too_many_mangos
18. Sand washes away, don't build important stuff on it
- Zoidy
19. Why does a coffee stain looks the way it is, and howyou can use it to make anti-laser glasses.
- Stockholm-Syndrom
20. You can make antimatter move in strange ways if youset your equipment up wrong.
- DrTBag
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