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Richard Mason Answers Life's Persistent Questions
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Does the team that scores first in the Superbowl tend to win?
Can the radiation from illicit nuclear warheads be seen from space?
Could Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise whip Darth Vader's Imperial Star Destroyer?
Didn't the tulip mania last for forty years?
Do you believe that stocks are efficiently priced?
How can micropayments for content be made to work?
How do you beat the first boss in SketchFighter 4000 Alpha?
How do you change the Region on a Daewoo DVG-3000N DVD player?
How light would I have to be to walk on water?
If I get in a helicopter and go straight up and just hover there for 12 hours will I come down on the other side of the world?
If I'm in an elevator and the mechanisms fail causing the car to plunge at terrifying speed, if I jump at the very last second before the car crashes into the ground will I be okay?
If you could buy a ticket for a lottery for $1 and you had a 99,999 in 100,000 chance of winning $1,000, but a 1 in 100,000 chance of being killed, would you take the gamble?
If you leave a light bulb on, does it use more or less electricity than if you turn it off and on?
I'm confused, do they use money on Star Trek or not?
In case the parking brake fails, is it best to place a concrete block under the back tire or the front tire?
Is $16 billion a reasonable market capitalization for an etailing startup?
Is bioengineering the best route to nanotechnology?
Is homosexuality associated with a green beard effect?
Is it effeminate to check a store directory?
Is it really risking anything to bet money already won from the house?
Is it true that there are no barriers to entry in etail?
Isn't it painful to see "they" used in the singular?
Is the Judeo-Christian tradition particularly suitable for scientific progress?
Know any good places to eat?
On Jeopardy, are you blocked from ringing in until the question has been completely given, or can you ring in as soon as you know the answer?
Read any good books lately? Seen any good movies?
Should academic tenure be abolished?
Should Australia become the fifty-first state?
Should redundant overvotes be counted?
Should you bet everything on a wager with infinite expected return?
Was Deckard a replicant?
What are P and NP?
What are your thoughts on taxes?
What causes the "hot hand" feeling?
What does the third derivative signify?
What do you think lies ahead for the music industry?
What do you think of psychic abilities?
What is a geek?
What is good acting?
What is Gresham's Law?
What is the difference between a 2-stroke engine and a 4-stroke engine?
What is the market for robot fish?
What's up with Mark Hamill?
What's your Bacon number?
What's your motto?
When the weather is cold, why does my garage door get heavier?
Which superheroes are circumcised?
Who moved my cheese?
Why are movie tickets all the same price?
Why can't I sell myself into slavery?
Why do diesel engines deliver more torque than gasoline engines?
Why does light reflect off a silvered surface but scatter off a painted wall?
Why does the media ignore the threat from asteroid impacts?
Why don't explosions hurt your ears more?
Why don't I need a satellite dish for my satellite radio? Why do I need one for satellite TV?
Why do people buy books instead of borrowing them from a library?
Why do you only lose one sock?
Why is morning light so hard and cold and evening light so warm and soft?
Why isn't
The Lord of the Rings
as controversial as
Harry Potter
?
Why is shortening called shortening?
Why is the airline industry peculiarly vulnerable to price wars?
Why is there a national helium stockpile?
Why is there an X in Xmas?
Why would a rich person want to live in an egalitarian society?
Why would you want a company to pay dividends instead of retaining earnings or buying back shares?
Will nanotechnologists accidentally or deliberately create a "gray goo" which will devour us all?
Will nanotechnology be viable within the next fifty years?
Will they ever make a sequel to
Casablanca
?
Will we ever find a way to unlock 100% of the energy available in a mass?
Would a libertarian society be much different from the world of powerful national governments we live in today?
