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Why Are Peppers Hot?

Can You Beat Jet Lag?

How Do Bees Fly?

Why Does Traffic Jam?

Sand to Nuts

Viewer Challenge
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Life's Little Questions:
Viewer Challenge Quiz


Here are the answers to the Scientific American Frontiers Show 904: Life's Little Questions Viewer Challenge Quiz Answers:

  1. d

  2. numbs the nerves or fires a pain message to brain or it actually fools cells into thinking they're on fire
  3. c

  4. light or light to eyes or back of knees

  5. wings are too small, wings beat too slowly

  6. b

  7. new traffic lights, new highways, clear tunnel backups or accidents

  8. backward propagating wave

  9. a

  10. around the edges of the stain






 

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