Another might be:  "Why does water swirl the way it does going down the
drain?"  "Short answers only, please.

--Doug

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:

> This is kinda nifty: answer a concrete question in a page or less.
>
> In 1993, the UK Science Minister, William Waldegrave, challenged physicists
> to produce an answer that would fit on one page to the question 'What is the
> Higgs boson, and why do we want to find it?'
>
>
> http://hep.physics.utoronto.ca/BerndStelzer/higgs/
>
>
> I bet one could make a hugely successful website full of "short answers to
> important questions".
>
> One might be: why is the US government self destructing for no apparent
> reason.
>
>         -- Owen
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