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Super food Is there a single foodstuff that could provide all the nutrients that a human needs to stay reasonably healthy indefinitely?Andy Taplin, Cambridge, UK
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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-04-29 17:00:00

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Categories: Domestic Science, Human Body.

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Wheels of death I heard the car is the deadliest weapon created by humans and that the number of lives it has claimed exceeds the death toll from atomic weapons, guns or bombing. Is this true? And what are the grisly figures involved?Thomas Elling, London, UK
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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-04-22 17:23:24

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Categories: Human Body, Transport, Technology.

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Achoo blues

Twice, when donating blood platelets to the Red Cross, I've started sneezing uncontrollably. Assistants respond immediately by giving me Tums, a brand of antacid indigestion tablet. Their explanation is that Tums restores my calcium balance.I understand how my calcium could get out of whack when my blood is being removed, filtered and given back to me without platelets, but what does this have to do with sneezing?Heather Hallen, East Lansing, Michigan, US

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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-04-22 17:21:54

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Categories: Human Body.

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Horsing about

When I was younger, my mum used to drive us past a field with a horse in it. There was a sign that read: "This horse is not dead, he sleeps that way." Indeed, sometimes the horse was lying on its back with its legs locked straight up in the air.How unusual was this behaviour and why or how did the horse learn to sleep that way?Rosemary Bell, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK(Image: balckfrog, stock.xchng)

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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-04-15 17:03:00

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Categories: Animals.

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Husky envy I took my dog to the park in the snow. She is very small and while running around in the snow, hard, icy "snowballs" formed on the fur on her chest. How and why did this happen?Alix Buttimore, (aged 11), London, UK
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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-04-09 12:58:41

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Categories: Human Body, Weather , Animals.

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Think hard What is the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? If we were to construct a PC with similar computational power to our brain, what would its technical specifications need to be?John Gladstone, Southampton, UK(Image: maxbrown, stock.xchng)
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Asked by damian
on 2009-04-09 12:58:35

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Down in one Why is it so much easier to drink a whole pint of beer or orange squash, say, in one go than it is to down a pint of water?Geoff Lane, Bury, Lancashire, UK
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on 2009-04-09 12:47:13

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Brolly life

When I took the cover off my picnic table's sun umbrella I found a number of these structures running down one of the folds (see Photo, left).They look like they are made of dried mud and inside each one is a vivid yellow powder and a single thin, curled-up larva. Each structure was about 5 centimetres long.What did it, how did it do it, how long did it take - and should I get rid of them?Ian Gilbert, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, UK

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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-03-18 17:01:00

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Categories: Domestic Science, Animals.

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Hidey hole With climate change, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters to contend with, where on the planet is the safest place to live?Michael Leonard, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK(Image: Pyroclastic flows at Mayon Volcano, Philippines, 1984, United States Geological Survey)
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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-03-18 17:00:00

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Ride the curves Why are velodromes shaped the way they are? What's the science involved?Specifically, why do they have such high curves, especially as hardly any cyclists seem to venture up there, and why do they have sloping straights? Also, what are the different coloured lines on the track for?Brian Porter, London, UK(Image: Santac, Wikimedia Commons)
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