I wouldn't do that to the FRIAM list. We're special. --Doug
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Victoria Hughes <victo...@toryhughes.com>wrote: > Oh you all are going to have a field day with this one, I can see already. > Howabout > how many Friamistas does it take to change a lightbulb? > > The mind boggles. > > Tory > > > > On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > 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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