What do you wonder? Here's the place to share your questions! Just click on "comments" and add your question at the bottom. I'll respond within a day or two.
Mr. B
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Cady Nowakowski
9/30/2015 08:34:45 pm
Why do the stars in the sky twinkle at night
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2015 09:16:28 pm
Hi Cady,
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Ryan Hauk
10/28/2015 10:59:11 am
Im not sure if it counts as a i wonder question, but did albert einstein ever say what his favorite element on the periodic table? If not what do you think it is?
Kailee Byas
9/28/2017 04:31:39 pm
Hi, Mr. Biegun I was wondering why a lunar eclipse is blinding to the naked eye but the sun on a normal day isn't.
Mr. Biegun
9/30/2015 09:12:52 pm
Hi Kelsey,
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Cassidy Hermosilla
9/26/2017 08:45:26 am
What makes thunder
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Ava
1/10/2018 10:49:53 pm
lightning
Donovan Robinson
10/1/2015 04:13:01 pm
what would happen if the earth moved slightly forward?
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Mr. Biegun
10/1/2015 08:17:24 pm
If the Earth moved a little bit closer to the Sun, it would probably get a little warmer. At first, the oceans would absorb a lot of the heat, but eventually the oceans would evaporate, and then the planet would become MUCH warmer- maybe too warm for us to live! The good news is, that's very unlikely to ever happen!
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Gretchen Waltenspiel
10/1/2015 04:48:18 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun! Why is it that sound is delayed a little bit when you're far away from the sound being made?
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Mr. Biegun
10/1/2015 08:21:05 pm
Hi Gretchen,
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Madison Grenier
10/3/2015 04:40:04 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun. I was wondering if when you're stopped at a stoplight and you see the clouds moving, if the clouds were moving or the Earth or if they were both moving in opposite directions.
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Mr. Biegun
10/3/2015 09:00:37 pm
Hi Madison,
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Madison Grenier
10/4/2015 11:26:31 am
Thank you Mr. Biegun now I know the answer, but I have another question. Do you see the same clouds over and over again like each time the Earth goes around or are they always different clouds?
Mr. Biegun
10/4/2015 10:42:57 pm
No, clouds do not stay the same all the way around the Earth. If you ever watch a time-lapse video of clouds, looking down from space satellites, you'll notice that the clouds are constantly changing, disappearing and new ones forming.
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Deja Green
10/5/2015 05:57:22 pm
What makes some t-shirts glow in the dark?
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Mr. Biegun
10/5/2015 10:17:42 pm
Hi Deja,
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Carley Thompson
10/5/2015 10:01:07 pm
Why is there no gravity in space but there is gravity on earth? I wonder this because space has planets and earth is one of them but the other planets don't have gravity,right?
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Mr. Biegun
10/5/2015 10:08:41 pm
Hi Carley,
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Carley
10/6/2015 06:05:12 pm
Thank you for your response, I am just wondering how come people would float when they go to space if the is gravity?😀
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Mr. Biegun
10/6/2015 08:25:37 pm
If a person is in a spaceship, the only gravity they would feel is from the spaceship itself! Since the ship is all "around" them, they would float inside it! But of course a spaceship is way smaller than a planet, so the ship has very little gravity anyway.
Vincent Deon
10/6/2015 07:16:45 am
Why can you watch a lunar eclipse with the naked eye but not a solar eclipse? What would happen if you looked at a solar eclipse with the naked eye?
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Mr. Biegun
10/6/2015 08:31:56 pm
Good question, Vince. When you are looking at a SOLAR eclipse, you are staring straight at the Sun, right? The Sun gives off very powerful ultraviolet light, which is INVISIBLE to your eyes, but it still can easily burn a hole in the retina in the back of your eyes if you stare toward the Sun. Ultraviolet light is also the part of the sunlight that causes sunburn, and can cause skin cancer. It's the same light that comes from a "black light", but is MUCH stronger from the Sun, even during an eclipse!
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yahir
10/6/2015 12:53:03 pm
Why does the mass of gum change after we chew it???
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Mr. Biegun
10/6/2015 08:33:53 pm
Hi Yahir,
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Fatima habib
10/6/2015 06:52:39 pm
why does the gravity hold you down
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Mr. Biegun
10/6/2015 08:35:48 pm
That's what gravity does, Fatima- it pulls things toward each other. The Earth's gravity pulls you down. AND YOU PULL UP ON THE EARTH! But guess which one has the most gravity? The Earth. That's why when you jump up in the air, the planet doesn't jump up and stick to your feet!
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fatima habib
10/12/2015 07:23:23 pm
thanks for replying mr.B
hannah schmidt
10/8/2015 09:07:36 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun its Hannah. I was wondering, I have heard that a fish can only remember about 10 or 20 seconds then they forget every after that, is that true? This would be a good question for the myth busters. And if it is my fish died today and my other fish in the tank (ninja) he looks very sad and just staying at the bottom of the tank .So do you think he does remember his friend?
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Brandy Taliaferro
10/9/2015 03:43:01 pm
I think he remebers his friend. R.I.P
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Mr. Biegun
10/9/2015 06:18:27 pm
Hi Hannah,
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Chloe Ward
9/8/2017 06:06:22 pm
What are your fish die ?????😢😢
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Madison Grenier
10/9/2015 06:15:24 am
That's a great question Hannah and I'm sorry your fish died.😕
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Donovan Robinson
10/9/2015 05:03:37 pm
What is that suppose to mean?
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Mr. Biegun
10/9/2015 06:19:38 pm
I'm sorry too, Hannah! But congratulations on that great quiz score today!
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Dominique Robinson (Donovan's little sister)
10/9/2015 05:20:18 pm
What would happen if the sun got to close to the earth?
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Mr. Biegun
10/9/2015 06:21:15 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Dominique
3/5/2016 03:48:11 pm
Thank You for answering me! : )
Alexis
10/9/2015 06:26:25 pm
How come there are a lot of stars in the sky?
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Mr. Biegun
10/11/2015 07:40:33 pm
Hi Alexis,
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Kelsey Wallace
10/11/2015 02:10:06 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun, I was wondering how planets or dwarf planets are made? Also how are stars made?
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Mr. Biegun
10/11/2015 07:47:40 pm
Hi Kelsey,
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Breanna Nelson
10/11/2015 09:53:51 pm
How is time travel impossible?
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Mr. Biegun
10/11/2015 10:07:42 pm
Hi Breanna,
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Breanna Nelson
10/11/2015 09:53:54 pm
What are the physics of time travel?Don't we time travel everyday memories are the key to time travel right,we think about memories all the time.And we can also predict the future like if your making a sandwich you know you'll start with bread.Or the order you put on your clothes its normally always the same order you predict it will be.So your taking a fun ride in time land right.So I don't understand why people think its impossible.If you did the math the possibilities of it are remarkable.Its like a black hole but instead of sucking you through time your being pushed like gravity is letting go and is letting you fly in between time and space. Its a question but I wanted to share my opinion sorry.
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Emma Walters
10/12/2015 05:40:30 pm
I think this is an awesome question Breanna! I personally think it would be awesome if scientists found out if time travel was real, because then we could find out more about how we evolved.
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Madison Grenier
10/12/2015 07:39:03 pm
Breanna that's a great question! I would like to find that out as well. It would be really cool if we could time travel. Also every second is the future or past like while I was typing this it's now in the past and when u read it, it will be in the future.
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Mr. Biegun
10/12/2015 10:31:43 pm
Well, Breanna, you have a lot of questions tucked in there, let's see if I can untangle a few:
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Emma Walters
10/12/2015 05:38:11 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun! My question (or wonder if you will) is that do you think or is there science that can be tested to find out if teleportation is possible. (please excuse that there are no commas or a question mark. My dumb tablet doesn't know what those are.)
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Mr. Biegun
10/12/2015 10:19:03 pm
Hi Emma,
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Sarah Ross
10/13/2015 08:41:56 pm
Mr biegun how does an eraser work? Is there a chemical in it ?
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 05:51:44 pm
I'm sure it would look different by the angle you look at it
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 06:29:27 pm
No, Sarah, no chemical tricks involved. It's simply friction! When you write with pencil you are leaving little microscopic bits of graphite on the fibers of the paper. The rubber of the eraser makes enough friction to rub the graphite off. A fun experiment would be to find different kinds of rubber and see if you can erase with them. I haven't tried it myself, so let me know! How about a wide rubber band? Or a rubber glove?
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Brandy Taliaferro
10/13/2015 09:12:07 pm
If you were standing on the moon during a lunar/solor eclipse, would it look different? Would the earth or the sun look different during an equinox or solstice?
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 06:40:58 pm
Wow, what a cool question, Brandy! I think a great way to think about this would be to draw a picture of the positions of those bodies when these situations are happening, then imagine yourself in each spot to see what it would look like. I should put a picture right in this answer but the software won't let me. I've got to figure out how to do that . . .
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 04:04:53 pm
What would the world be like if their was no moon
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:00:56 pm
Hi Logan,
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Logan pruitt
10/14/2015 04:14:24 pm
How were different species of animals bought into this world .Sorry I ask to many questions
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:06:26 pm
Logan, there is no such thing as too many questions! If it's something you really wonder about, it's ALWAYS a good question.
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Abraham herrera
10/14/2015 06:06:10 pm
If the earth orbited the other way(backwards) would time go back words
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:08:54 pm
What an interesting idea, Abe! All the planets orbit in the same direction because that's the way the Solar System was turning when it formed. If it had started spinning in the other direction, I don't think we would notice any difference at all, unless you study the movement of the stars in the night sky VERY carefully.
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Emily Morris
10/20/2015 09:05:40 pm
If the earth did start spinning the other way, then how would the stars change and how would you know?
Kelsey Wallace
10/14/2015 07:18:29 pm
How is a black hole formed
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:19:34 pm
When a small star like the Sun (yes, it's one of the smaller ones) runs out of fuel, it begins to swell up larger and larger and turn red. When our Sun becomes a "red giant" it will be so big that Mercury, Venus, Earth and maybe Mars will be INSIDE the Sun (and will be burned up to nothing). The red giant Sun will then lose much of its gas to outer space, and the rest will collapse to a very small, hot "white dwarf" star no bigger than our planet. Then it will just gradually cool off and lose all its heat over many billions of years.
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Emily Morris
10/20/2015 09:04:18 pm
In the first paragraph of your response to Kelsey, you said "when our sun becomes..." I know in science class, you said that about half of the suns fuel that keeps it burning is gone, and it took a billion years to do so, and it will take about a billion years for the other half of the fuel to be gone. When this happens, is that when or what would become into the black hole? Or is that something different? If that is something different, then how does it happen? -Emily
Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 08:22:17 pm
Have you saw the myth busters episode where they heat up the barrel of a gun then bent it at 135 degrees
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:25:00 pm
Nope, haven't seen it. I don't think you'd want to use that gun for anything though!
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Alisha Gul
10/14/2015 08:22:30 pm
Mr. Biegun
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:29:22 pm
Hi Alisha,
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Alisha Gul
10/20/2015 04:49:43 pm
How come there is no air in space, but there is air on the earth. Technicaly we all are on a planet which is in the solar system
Gaby Brady
10/14/2015 08:23:22 pm
How is a plant created?
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:32:15 pm
Hi Gaby,
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Jacob Bandy
10/14/2015 08:23:58 pm
I wonder if it is possible to brake a sheet of iron with your bare hands and not say ouch not meofcource but maybe the strongest guy in the world and the other really strong men.
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Mr. Biegun
10/14/2015 08:33:32 pm
I doubt it very much, Jacob. Iron is a very strong metal, and at the same time it's difficult to make it thin the way you can with aluminum or gold. So the thinnest piece of iron would be far too strong for a person to break with their hands.
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Kayla Miller
10/14/2015 08:41:36 pm
I heard that humans only use 10 or 20 %of their brain and the percent Is useless is this true?
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:19:52 pm
No, Kayla, that is a very old myth that is absolutely false! It's a misunderstanding of how the brain works. You use all of your brain, but all of us can improve our brain by making more connections between the different parts. That's called education. All that reading you do is really helping a lot too!
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kierslyn huff
10/14/2015 08:55:34 pm
um i have a question how can salt water kill people and not when you at least have 3 spoon full of salt...?and how come people cant communicate to apes when some science proves that we evolved from them?
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:29:22 pm
Well- you're kind of cheating there, aren't you, Kierslyn? Sneaking in two questions at once? :-)
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 08:56:44 pm
Has their ever been a storm in the Milky Way that it shook all the earths. And what causes a star to fall out of the sky
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kierslyn huff
10/14/2015 09:06:34 pm
i just looked it up i says there have been storms spotted by people before but i don't know if the pitchers i looked at is true...
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 09:23:57 pm
I'm pretty sure that's false because you can't just notice planets moving one by one. I'm sure you can't even tell if their shaking with a telescope
Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:30:59 pm
There is no such thing as a storm in the Milky Way, Logan.
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Gunner Bliss
10/14/2015 09:07:41 pm
I was wondering if we have the "space tools" to see and know about planets like the second earth,planets that are millions of miles away why has there been no robot sent to look for a black hole?
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 09:27:07 pm
Did you hear in world geography that china is making the largest telescope in the world it's going to be bigger than the one in porter Rico it's shaped like a huge pentagon
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:42:02 pm
The planets that have been detected outside our Solar System have not been SEEN. They are too far away to see. What we can detect, with very sensitive telescopes, is slight changes in the light shining from their stars. Imagine you are standing on a beach at night, staring across a lake. You can just see the shore on the other side, and there is a faint light over there near someone's house. As you stare at the faint light, you notice it flicker as someone walks in front of the light.
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Emily Morris
10/14/2015 09:11:26 pm
In science class one day you mentioned that in fall, leaves don't change color, but underneath the green, when it is spring and summer,the red and orange is there, just covered up by the green. I was wondering if it was possible to take a green leaf, and uncover the orange or red some how. And if this is possible, I was wondering if we could do the experiment in class?
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Logan Pruitt
10/14/2015 09:21:31 pm
He said their is a way to do it but I don't remember that much about it anymore
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Gunner bliss
10/14/2015 09:21:58 pm
Good question!
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:50:27 pm
Good question, Emily. The green stuff in leaves is a chemical called chlorophyll. The yellow and orange colors come from a group of chemicals called carotenoids. As you might guess, these are the same chemicals that make carrots orange.
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Emily Morris
10/20/2015 08:49:24 pm
kierslyn huff
10/15/2015 05:47:30 am
is it true than cemtrails are making the suns rays more intence?and how do people git Cancer?
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:53:07 pm
Two questions again, Kierslyn? I think you are talking about contrails, those long white trails that come from high-flying jets. I believe they are mostly water-vapor, and I've never heard of them making sunlight more intense, but if you find any information that says this, I'd love to see it.
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 10:59:10 pm
Cancer is a problem that happens when something goes wrong with the operations inside a cell in someone's body. It's kind of like if a car was driving along the road and something went wrong inside the engine and caused the car to speed up out of control, and the driver couldn't make it stop.
Abby Zaremba
10/16/2015 08:04:25 pm
Hello, Mr. Biegun I was wondering why is it when you go into outer space your food needs to be dehydrated and what would happen to food in outer space if it was not.
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 11:05:04 pm
Water evaporates almost instantly if there is no air, so if you pulled out a juicy cheeseburger in outer space it would quickly turn into cheeseburger dust.
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Savanna Schmidt
10/16/2015 09:50:59 pm
Hi mr.Biegun I was wonder if there is such a thing called a "shooting star?" If you could answer this soon it would be great because I REALLY WANT TO KNOW THIS IMFORMATION
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Mr. Biegun
10/16/2015 11:13:47 pm
Glad to help, Savanna! There is something called a "shooting star". But it's not a shooting star! Those bright streaks you see shooting across a dark sky occasionally at night, are really nothing more than grains of sand in outer space. Most of them are just floating out there because they came off of comets that were moving through the Solar System. (Comets are huge chunks of ice and sand and bits of rock).
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Logan Pruitt
10/17/2015 04:53:16 pm
If their were no moon would their still be tsunamis
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Mr. Biegun
10/20/2015 07:48:28 pm
Sure, there would still be tsunamis. They are caused by earthquakes happening under the ocean. They have no connection to the moon.
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Emily Morris
10/20/2015 08:58:04 pm
Sorry Mr.Biegun, if i'm asking too many questions, but I think I may have learned this before but I forgot, I've heard this many times in children's books, magazines, or other reading articles. Is it true that owls can turn their head around all the way? And if so, then how is that possible? Do owls not have bones in their necks? Or can only some owls do it? -Emily
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Mr. Biegun
10/20/2015 09:52:39 pm
You ask great questions, Emily! I know I've read about owls turning their heads, but I went and looked up a few articles to get the details.
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Joelle and Nitya
10/21/2015 10:03:15 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun! So we keep fighting over this so we decided to ask you. If the earth is in space then would that mean that we are in space to? Thanks😊
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 09:34:41 pm
Well, Joelle and Nitya: first of all, QUIT FIGHTING!
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Nitya
10/23/2015 04:56:29 pm
Thank you👍😜
marisa zoller
10/22/2015 06:23:08 pm
hi Mr. Biegun! how come when there is gravity on the earth but not in outer space
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 09:37:52 pm
Actually, Marisa, there is gravity WHEREVER there is anything made of matter. The closer you are to any object, the stronger the gravity is. It works just like the force of a magnet. When a piece of iron gets close to the magnet it can "feel" the magnet's pull. But if you move the piece of iron 10 feet away, that doesn't mean there is no magnetism, it just means the force is too weak at that distance to be noticeable.
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Anna Lubman
10/22/2015 08:03:38 pm
So I have heard that batteries blow up or explode int the sun, is this true? If so what chemicals make it do this and why? Can they do the same in another heat source?
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 09:43:13 pm
Hi Anna,
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Gretchen
10/22/2015 09:04:21 pm
Hi, Mr. Biegun! I was wondering, how can the human eye see colors, and see in general? Thanks!
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 09:50:38 pm
Hi Gretchen! Great question- I used to teach a lot about the eye when I taught different grades, but it's not part of what we learn in 6th. The eye has a hole in the front, that little black circle called the pupil. The size of the hole is controlled by the iris, the colored part of the eye, which is like a ring-shaped muscle. When light goes in through the retina, it goes through a lens to focus it, and the light shines on the back surface of your eyeball. This is a layer of light-sensing cells called the retina. Think of it like a screen in the back of your eye. Some of those cells can sense light and dark, and other cells can detect colors. Humans have both kinds, but some animals only have the light/dark kind because they are nocturnal, and you can't see much color at night anyway, but seeing even a little bit of light in the dark is useful. (That's why cats and dogs don't see color but they do see very well in the dark.) When your retina absorbs the light, it sends signals to the brain through the optic nerve, which is like a cable running from the back of the eye into the brain.
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Madison Grenier
10/29/2015 03:29:28 pm
That's a great question Gretchen I was wondering the same thing also savanna that was a wonderful question I had always wondered how a star can be a shooting star and now I know. Thank you!☺️
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Emily Morris
10/22/2015 09:30:56 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun! When we were doing our soda geysers experiment in class today, I was thinking, if we did that experiment in space, then how would it work? Would it still erupt? Or would it freeze or burn because of the different atmosphere in space? Thank you, -Emily
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 09:56:50 pm
Wow, that's fun to imagine! Let's see, if the bottle was floating in space, you'd have to "shoot" the mentos in, because there isn't enough gravity to make them fall in. They would react with the pop and shoot pop out, but this would cause the bottle to take off in the other direction. In fact, this is exactly how a rocket works! They spray hot gases out the narrow end and that forces the rocket to go in the other direction. Only they usually use gases that react violently with each other, like hydrogen and oxygen; as far as I know, NASA hasn't yet tried using Coke and Mentos as rocket propellant, but maybe they should try!
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Emily Morris
10/22/2015 09:34:24 pm
In the first paragraph of your response to Kelsey, (in a question from her 10/14/2015) you said "when our sun becomes..." I know in science class, you said that about half of the suns fuel that keeps it burning is gone, and it took a billion years to do so, and it will take about a billion years for the other half of the fuel to be gone. When this happens, is that when or what would become into the black hole? Or is that something different? If that is something different, then how does it happen? -Emily
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2015 10:03:14 pm
The Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago, and in that time it has burned about half of its hydrogen fuel. This doesn't make the Sun "empty" like a gas tank, however; when the fuel "burns" it really is changed into helium gas. (Yes, the same helium we put in balloons!) So in a little over 4 billion more years, the Sun will have turned most of its hydrogen into helium, and then it will be big ball of really hot helium. As the sun gradually changes to helium it will burn hotter and hotter, so even before that time it will become so hot that everything on the surface of our planet is boiled and burned away.
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Nitya
10/23/2015 05:00:16 pm
is it true that dogs are color blind?🐶
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Mr. Biegun
10/24/2015 05:44:32 pm
Yes, Nitya, dogs are probably unable to see much color, if any. If you scroll above a bit and read my answer to Gretchen, you'll see that eyeballs have two kinds of cells for receiving light. These are called "rods" and "cones". The rods can detect light or dark, and the cones can detect color. Humans have both kinds, but dogs have mostly rods. This is probably because their ancestors were nocturnal. Most nocturnal animals depend on rods to see in the dark.
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Breanna Nelson
10/24/2015 07:40:33 pm
Plutonium is the most dangerous mineral to be discovered,but once there was a scientist who had plutonium in a needle and then accidentally poked himself with the needle then out of shock pressed down and then the plutonium shot into his blood stream.So for the next 50 years every time he went to the bathroom there was a bit of plutonium in his pee!Now we all know (or just the people who know plutonium exists)that plutonium was in the famous atomic bomb known as Fat Man which was also the same atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 which killed 40,000 more people than Hiroshima and The radiation levels in Nagasaki are still not safe so how does this mad made element live in someone's blood stream for 50 years?
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Breanna Nelson
10/24/2015 08:06:20 pm
Mr.Biegun Also before Plutonium was even discovered Uranium was known as the most horrible element but since Uranium was an natural element.That as we know humans can withstand Uranium and even be in the same open room with Uranium because its natural.But Plutonium is a man made element which in this case has never been SCIENTIFICALLY tested with a human,also Plutonium is known to make not only itself deteriorate but also become so radioactive that it actually becomes really quite hot and turns a glowing red/orange color.People say Uranium is the Boogie Man of the elements,well then that mean's Plutonium is the Poltergeist.But my question is what elements or mineral's made Plutonium so incredibly dangerous.
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Mr. Biegun
10/25/2015 09:22:56 pm
Hi Breanna,
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Bece Martinez(breanna's friend)
10/25/2015 04:07:10 pm
Breanna and me have been arguing because we both think differently. But what would happen if the universe shrunk?
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Mr. Biegun
10/25/2015 09:54:36 pm
Hi Bece,
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Maylin D.
10/26/2015 09:36:19 pm
how does a Kaleidoscope work?
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2015 09:38:02 pm
Hi Maylin,
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Andre C.
10/26/2015 09:38:44 pm
If a fly flies into a open window of a car driving 70 mph, is the fly flying 70mph as well? what is the maximum speed of a fly?
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2015 09:47:40 pm
That's an interesting question, Andre. If the fly is heading in the same direction as the car and then goes through the window, then he was flying at 70 mph. But I'm quite sure that couldn't happen! If the fly was coming toward the car from the side, flying at the usual speed for a fly (maybe 5-10 mph), it would have to be timed perfectly to go in a window while a car is passing by at 70 mph. Therefore, I believe this is nearly impossible!
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Tara Hamilton
10/26/2015 10:43:26 pm
Is it true that when you flicker the lights for a long time that it will catch a fire or is that a myth
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 09:24:47 pm
Hmm, that's an interesting one, Tara! I've never heard that before. I always thought maybe it would wear out the light bulbs. But I really don't know!
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Breanna Nelson
10/27/2015 05:06:15 pm
Hey Mr.Biegun just so you know i was right about the universe shrinking.But i have a totally different question.Well me and my friend Cole were talking about different universe's and how people say that in one universe your a vegan and in another they're a bloodsucking vampire and then we started talking about black hole's.Well our real question is what if there is a reverse blackhole that was filling our universe with other stuff from different universe's.
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:02:07 pm
Whew! I don't know what to say about blood-sucking vampires and vegans in other universes. But let's not assume there are other universes at all: that is just an "idea" some scientists have had. There is absolutely no evidence to show it is real, and actually there CAN'T be any evidence to show it, since any information we can observe can only be from our universe. But hopefully there's not a bunch of aliens in another universe flushing their garbage down a black hole toilet and having it dump right into ours. I'd be really upset about that.
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Cady Nowakowski
10/27/2015 08:19:32 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun I had two questions from class today. The first one was is it impossible to burn the inside of a Twinkie I really have been anxious to get an answer. Also on the periodic table in the back of the room why is there a picture of a diamond for carbon. I would really like to know. Thank you
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:07:29 pm
Cadence, I hesitate to ask why you are so anxious to know how to burn the inside of a Twinkie . . . however, I can think of several ways if it helps you to sleep better. If you need to do this I can give you a strip of magnesium metal. Stick it down in the middle of the Twinkie so the end is still sticking out. Light it with a match and it will burn (extremely hot) down into the center of the Twinkie. That ought to do the trick, and it would look really cool.
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nitya
10/27/2015 08:21:06 pm
is it true that if you watch something stupid (such as reality TV) your brain cells will die?
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:14:53 pm
Well, technically no, although I've said things like that myself when somebody is wasting their attention on something dopey. I'll admit that's an exaggeration, Nitya. HOWEVER, this is a truth I will insist upon: every moment you spend watching something idiotic on TV is a moment that you are NOT growing your intelligence by doing something more worthy of your magnificent brain. It's like this: imagine on your next birthday someone gives you for a gift the most amazing high tech smartphone ever invented. But you decide to use it as a fly-swatter instead. It might not break the phone, but you're sure not making the best use of it. Your brain is the most incredible gift you have, and you have the ability to turn it into so much more. Feeding your brain garbage is not the way to do that.
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tara hamilton
10/28/2015 08:23:01 pm
what is the earths moon called
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:18:03 pm
Just as there are billions of suns (stars), and we call ours "the Sun", our moon is one of over a hundred moons that we know of, but we call it "the Moon".
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gunner bliss
10/29/2015 08:46:42 am
i was wondering what causes salt water fish to die in fresh water and the same for fresh water fish in salt water?
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:23:20 pm
It's interesting that you ask this, Gunner, because it is actually closely connected to the Gummy Bear experiment going on in our classroom right now. The kids doing that experiment are learning about osmosis, which is when water molecules move into or out of an animal's cells.
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Madison Grenier
10/29/2015 03:32:49 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I read your responses to Gretchen about how we see and to nitya about how it was true that dogs are color blind but I've been wondering if cats were also color blind?🐱
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2015 11:28:53 pm
Yes, Gretchen- cats are also nocturnal animals by nature, and they have even better vision in the dark. As you saw in my answer to Gretchen, animals that are adapted to see in the dark have lots of those "rod" cells, but not many "cone" cells. Another adaptation they often have is that the back of their eyeball (the retina) is shiny and reflective like a mirror. So any light that comes in their eye is reflected back into the eye and they can see even better. That's why when you shine a light on these animals you will see their eyes "glowing". Of course cats are famous for this.
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Cady Nowakowski
11/1/2015 07:53:11 pm
Thank you Mr. Biegun for responding my questions. Also did you know that there is a periodic table song it goes by REALLY fast but it is very helpful
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Mr. Biegun
11/2/2015 09:46:40 pm
Yes, I love that song, Cady. On my youtube channel you can see a couple of former students singing the whole song from memory! I'll be playing the song for the class in January, and maybe you will memorize it too!
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Layla Martin
11/2/2015 06:07:34 pm
If the sun moved closer and warned the oceans up, what would happen to our planet, and, what would happen to the others?
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Mr. Biegun
11/2/2015 09:49:19 pm
Hi Layla,
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Brandy Taliaferro
11/2/2015 09:11:18 pm
I heard you talking about the periodic table of elements, so that reminded me about my bismuth I got a few weeks ago. Do you know what makes it have that stair-step pattern, or the rainbow colors?
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Mr. Biegun
11/2/2015 09:51:44 pm
Yes, I know quite a bit about that, Brandy. I have several bismuth crystals myself and I can show you if you ask at school. I've even tried making some! I bought some pure bismuth and melted it (with the propane torch I use for fireballs). When it cools off, it naturally forms into those stair step shapes, and the colors are created by oxygen getting into the metal as it cools.
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Kimber Rhodes
11/3/2015 09:22:18 am
Can you increase your lifespan?And if you can, how would you know?
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Mr. Biegun
11/3/2015 09:34:12 am
Hi Kimber. Well, first of all, it's really important to remember that NOBODY can guarantee the length of their life, no matter how healthy you may be today. Despite all our technology and scientific achievements, living on this planet is still a very risky business, and it's a mistake to every think you "know" what's going to happen tomorrow! That's worth thinking about.
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Casey Gruber
11/3/2015 11:41:51 am
I was wondering if Oceans are natural formed with salt water? If so how does the salt get there?
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Mr. Biegun
11/3/2015 05:16:31 pm
No, the water is not naturally salty- the salt is in the soil and rocks of our planet. Rainwater washes the salt out of the soil and carries it into rivers, where it is carried down to the sea. When ocean water evaporates to make clouds, the salt gets left behind. When those clouds rain on the continents, it just washes more salt down to the oceans.
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Dorian Robinson
11/3/2015 12:52:20 pm
Why do people make pictures out of the stars?
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Mr. Biegun
11/3/2015 05:24:05 pm
Hi Dorian. Do you mean constellations? A lot of kids ask me why people would do something so crazy as imagine pictures in the night sky. But I think you need to imagine yourself living thousands of years ago. What do you think people did in the evenings? Watch TV? Read books? They didn't even have electricity, so the only light was the light of their campfires. The night sky was SO clear and dark in those days, that the stars would have been spectacular overhead, more than anyplace in the world today. And they would have sat there night after night after night, looking up at that beautiful scene until then "knew" many of the stars the way you know the houses on your street. People in those days would share stories as a form of entertainment, and it must have been only natural for them to include the stars in their stories. For instance, someone might tell an exciting story about a hunter named Orion, and then end the story by pointing up into the sky at the constellation we now call Orion the Hunter. What a great ending to the story to say, "and there he is today!" and the listeners would be able to imagine the shape of his body just from that cluster of stars.
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Breanna Nelson
11/4/2015 12:49:49 pm
Mr.biegun I know that there is not a cure for cancer whet but what if I could make a sodium based pill that would stop the cell's from reproducing so rapidly.They say that Elaphant's know how to cure themselves of cancer but scientists say that its all about the size of there braincells which oddly has to do with the intake of sodium and other salts and natural minerals that give them this ability of healing once its brain has found it.I have been planning to ask you about the different stages of an elephants healing power for a while sorry it took me so long.I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW MY PLAN!Please answer my question.Thanks
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Mr. Biegun
11/4/2015 06:48:55 pm
Hi Breanna,
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Dorian Robinson
11/4/2015 04:05:28 pm
This is sort of based off of Breanna's question. I heard about people trying to make limbs out of human cells and I don't know if this can actually happen. Can it?
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Mr. Biegun
11/4/2015 06:53:48 pm
Hi Dorian,
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Alexis Redman
11/4/2015 04:10:00 pm
Why does earth orbit around the sun with all the other planets?
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Mr. Biegun
11/4/2015 06:56:05 pm
Hi Alexis,
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Carley Thompson
11/4/2015 05:16:43 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun i was wondering,how come if gravity holds you down then why if you where to go sledding and went of a bump you would go in the air.
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Mr. Biegun
11/4/2015 07:03:42 pm
Hi Carley,
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11/4/2015 07:15:48 pm
Hi, Mr.Biegun. Is there any way the Sun could eventually turn into something when it uses up all it's gas, possibly a black hole? If so, is there any way the Earth and life on it could survive, even for a limited amount of time?
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Mr. Biegun
11/4/2015 08:56:16 pm
Hi Rishabh,
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Dorian Robinson
11/5/2015 04:34:32 pm
I am not sure if anyone has already asked this question yet, but how is the human body able to see different colors? And, why are we able to see color but some animals cannot?
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Mr. Biegun
11/9/2015 10:22:04 pm
Hi Dorian,
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nitya
11/9/2015 04:01:34 pm
can a bird actually get cancer?
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Mr. Biegun
11/9/2015 10:26:01 pm
Usually I hear of cancer in mammals, but I don't know if there's any reason it couldn't happen in other animals. It is more likely with a longer lifespan, so animals with short lifespans would probably be unlikely to have a problem with cancer. Most birds don't live very long, but there are some exceptions.
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Nitya
11/10/2015 06:48:30 pm
My friend had 2 birds (I forgot what kind) and one bird got cancer an the other one apparently was "sad" because it's friend died and they found that out at the vet.
Emma Walters
11/9/2015 04:11:08 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
11/9/2015 10:39:15 pm
I did some searching around about this; it's actually something I've wondered about also. Anybody who has ever had a cat or dog knows that they will sometimes eat some very surprising things. But from what I can see, there are a combination of factors here. First, some animals like dogs have a really great sense of smell, so they might be able to avoid SOME of the "bad" food that can hurt them. Secondly, it is actually very common for meat-eating animals to get sick from eating bad meat, and sometimes they do die from it. Thirdly, evolution is probably involved here: if animals die from eating rotten meat, the ones who have a slightly better (stronger) digestive system- maybe more acid- would be a little more likely to survive, and then pass on those stronger genes. So I would think there might also be a difference in digestive systems compared to humans, who have been relying on cooking to kill germs in food for many thousands of years now.
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Casey Gruber
11/9/2015 07:31:49 pm
I was wondering if stars in the sky are out during the day because sometimes i see the moon in the sky when the sun is out but i only see stars when the sun goes down. Are they out during the day before sun sets?
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Mr. Biegun
11/9/2015 10:41:49 pm
Hi Casey,
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Kelsey Wallace
11/10/2015 06:17:40 pm
Hi Mr.b, I was wondering when you break a bone how does it remake its self
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Mr. Biegun
11/10/2015 09:11:47 pm
Hi Kelsey,
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Nitya
11/10/2015 06:54:55 pm
is it possible to break an atom and if so what would happen to it?
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Mr. Biegun
11/10/2015 09:14:07 pm
This was a BIG question in the 1940's during World War 2. Einstein had already figured out that atoms contain a very large amount of energy (that's what E = mc2 means!). So people figured if you could just find a way to break open a whole bunch of atoms, you could get a lot of energy.
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kierslyn huff
11/12/2015 03:51:41 pm
is it true that cats and dogs can only see in black and white?
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Mr. Biegun
11/14/2015 09:37:46 pm
They may be able to see a little bit of color, but not as much as you can.
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Dorian Robinson
11/13/2015 05:07:01 pm
When we were talking about ecosystems in class, you said that humans did not evolve from apes. But I also heard that we are related to apes. Is this true? And if it is, why are there still apes on Earth?
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Mr. Biegun
11/14/2015 09:47:15 pm
Hi Dorian,
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Dora Lei
11/13/2015 06:31:28 pm
Hello! What would happen if the entire earth changed direction when orbiting the sun?
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Mr. Biegun
11/14/2015 09:52:17 pm
Hmm. Well, first of all, if it happened SUDDENLY, we'd all be in trouble, because the Earth is traveling around the Sun at over 60,000 miles per hour. So if we instantly reversed course at that speed (without slowing down to a stop first) I'm sure it would destroy the Earth.
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Dora lei
11/14/2015 10:33:30 pm
Cool! I jnow this is alot of questions lately, but, What if Earth got/gets another moon?
ashley le
11/14/2015 09:45:03 am
hi Mr.biegun how does mar have water on it? thank you
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Mr. Biegun
11/14/2015 09:54:20 pm
Hi Ashley,
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Dora lei
11/14/2015 10:30:14 pm
Hi, The other day or so I was wondering \thinking about life, and other weird stuff ,etc. Anyways I wanted to know what was the very first lifeform, (including plants and bugs) and how did it "live"?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 07:52:23 pm
Hi Dora,
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Breanna Nelson
11/15/2015 06:11:32 pm
How does music affect the way the human emotions change?One minute your happy,the next your sad.You know you have that one favorite song that almost feels like there talking about you or that they were writing about how YOU were feeling at that very moment.Its a cool topic to talk about but it would be even cooler if you figured it out.Also what is your favorite song?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 07:57:32 pm
Yes, and Einstein was also a pretty good violin player in his spare time. It is very interesting the way music can affect us (some people more than others). And then it can also annoy us greatly, like that darn Alka-Seltzer commercial (Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz) that I can't get out of my head.
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Cady Nowakowski
11/15/2015 08:45:56 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun lately when I look outside the window you can see perfectly through to the other side( If there aren't any smudges) So I was wondering how glass is made because if it is not naturally found what are the materials used to make it?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 08:00:54 pm
Hi Cady,
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Manny Mackall
11/15/2015 08:54:52 pm
what made dinosaurs become extinct?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 08:09:48 pm
Nobody knows the absolute answer for sure, but most scientists agree that the MOST likely cause was an asteroid or comet smashing into the Earth, causing so much fire and smoke and destruction that the Earth turned cold and dark for a year or more. This would have killed most of the plants (although their seeds remained). Plant-eating dinosaurs would have starved (or froze) and meat-eating dinosaurs would eventually starve as well.
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Arlette Fernandez
11/16/2015 12:24:44 pm
I get when people go to space they have to where a helmet because there isn't any air or gravityin space. But what I don't get is that if we are on earth we don't need a helmet, but aren't we technically in space?? Because i'm pretty sure there isn't a bobble around the earth keeping our heads from blowing up??
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 08:17:09 pm
Actually, Arlene, there is a "bubble" around Earth: a bubble of air called the atmosphere. It is held down on the surface of Earth by gravity. If somehow the atmosphere was gone, we would no longer have a blue sky in the daytime, but it would be black all the time, just like on the moon. And of course there would be no wind or clouds or precipitation. And you could not breathe or live without a space suit.
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Dorian Robinson
11/16/2015 05:22:35 pm
I was watching a trailer about this new movie about a dinosaur befriending a human boy that was supposedly the first human on earth. So I was wondering if the meteor that made the dinosaurs extinct really did miss. What do you think life would be like now? Would it make us more likely to be dead?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 08:19:58 pm
If the dinosaurs never became extinct, mammals (including us) would probably not have evolved very much, and probably would still be small animals hiding out in holes and trees, the way the mammals were during the time of dinosaurs. Some scientists think that maybe one of the species of dinosaur would have evolved intelligence instead. Perhaps the troodon, which is considered to be the "brainiest" of the dinosaurs before they became extinct.
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Casey
11/16/2015 05:33:22 pm
I was wondering if the material that makes things poisonous is the same poisonous material that is in all poisonous things?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2015 08:22:58 pm
No, there are many different substances that are poisonous, although many of them have similar chemical properties.
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fatima habib
11/17/2015 09:48:43 pm
i was wondering why cant we here if we are in deep sleep or think I WANT TO KNOW
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 07:41:18 pm
I wouldn't say we CAN'T hear; after all, an alarm clock can usually wake us up, right? But when we go to sleep our brain does switch into a different kind of state, so it does seem to block off certain things, at least partly- kind of like the way the car radio turns off when you turn off the engine of the car.
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Dorian Robinson
11/18/2015 04:16:50 pm
My little sister (Dominique) brought home a book called: Ripley's Believe It Or Not Special Edition 2007. It has lots of weird information about random things. On one page, It says: A child named Balaji, born in 2001, is being worshipped by his community in India because he was born with a tail. Can this really happen to a human? If so, how?
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 07:44:58 pm
We all have a tail, Dorian. Your backbone ends with a group of 3 or 4 small bones at the bottom, called the tailbone. These bones are normally beneath the skin and not visible from outside, but I have heard that sometimes babies are born with the tailbones poking out a bit. I don't know what this would look like, probably just a little bump.
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Donovan Robinson
11/18/2015 04:28:31 pm
How could a bolt of lightning strike a human and what could attract it to our body?
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 07:46:23 pm
Lightning goes toward the highest point that can conduct electricity. Since humans contain a lot of water, we conduct electricity pretty well. That's why you can get a shock after you go down a plastic slide!
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Cady Nowakowski
11/18/2015 09:24:31 pm
Why do people get headaches ?
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 07:50:25 pm
I get asked that one a lot, Cadence! I looked it up, and headaches are caused by LOTS of different things as you might guess (tiredness, loud noises, hunger, illness, stress, etc.). From what I was able to find out, scientists don't completely understand how or why this works, but there are many things you can do to treat headaches depending on what caused them, such as lying down in a dark quiet place, or taking some pain-relief medicine, or having something to eat.
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Emily Morris
11/18/2015 09:58:40 pm
Dear Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 07:58:33 pm
Hi Emily,
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 08:08:30 pm
Your second question is not weird at all! You are correct, Emily, that the placement of hair follicles is determined by DNA. In human cells, the DNA is divided into 23 pairs of chromosomes, and your thousands of genes are placed along those chromosomes. The 23rd pair of chromosomes is the part that determines gender, so any traits that are connected to gender, such as hair follicles, probably have the genes on the 23rd chromosomes. But I don't know for sure. There are scientists who would definitely know this, such as a geneticist. You might try doing a web search for "what genes control hair growth?" or something like that.
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Breanna Nelson
11/19/2015 11:50:13 am
Why does the human body get hotter when your lying?There is UV signatures and photo's of this being proven I just want to know why.
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 08:14:02 pm
Your body reacts to stress, and it's very difficult to control this. That's why lie-detector machines work. They can detect very tiny changes in temperature, heart rate, perspiration, breathing, etc. which are caused by the stress a person feels when lying. I don't believe it's 100% accurate, however, as everyone doesn't react exactly the same way.
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Logan Pruitt
11/19/2015 02:44:14 pm
If we had no Bactirea would their be any diseases in the world and would their be any scienctist in the world
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 08:18:32 pm
If there was no bacteria, there would be no US! First of all, because all life probably evolved from simple cells like bacteria; and second because you are carrying around in your intestines BILLIONS of bacteria that help to digest your food. You could not survive without them.
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Lauren Hatty
11/19/2015 04:44:10 pm
Why doesnt the sun spin around us??
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2015 08:20:45 pm
Well, Lauren, the Sun actually does spin (rotate), and it takes about 12 days for it to turn around once. But when the Solar System formed, the greatest amount of mass (the Sun) was at the center, which is what we would expect in any other Solar System. It's hard to imagine how it could be different once you realize how solar systems form. Lighter objects move around the heaviest object in the center. Earth is way lighter than the Sun, so we go around the Sun.
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Logan Pruitt
12/7/2015 07:41:18 pm
Is fog a cloud that is low
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Mr. Biegun
12/13/2015 09:19:30 pm
Yes, you can think of fog as just a cloud sitting on the ground.
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Casey Gruber
12/9/2015 10:23:38 am
If the sun isn't out like during the night or behind a cloud for a long time how do plants get their energy?
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Mr. Biegun
12/13/2015 09:26:12 pm
Just as you don't need to be eating every minute, plants can take a break at night and still survive all right. On cloudy days, they are not getting as much food as normal, sort of like if you didn't get much to eat on some days. They can still survive, but some plants would have a hard time living in places where it's cloudy lots of the time. That's why you find different plants in very sunny places like California or Florida. Those plants need lots of sunshine.
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marisa zoller
12/13/2015 06:40:37 pm
Hi Mr. biegun! how do power wires and poles get energy
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Mr. Biegun
12/13/2015 09:32:32 pm
Hi Marisa,
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Breanna Nelson
12/19/2015 10:07:50 pm
compared to other animals like for instance an elephant can kill the cancer in its body as soon as its brain detects it or that elephants are capable of taking a child that's not there's and sometimes not even the same species and treat it like a family member another thing that contributes to family is that when an elephant dies (and it doesn't even have to be in there family) they will mourn and dip their head in sadness and even cry (yes elephants can cry) elephants are an extremely advanced species almost as advanced as humans,chimpanzees,and even orangutans except without the opposable thumbs.I want to know!Why are elephants so advanced in the animal kingdom .
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Elise Kahle
1/3/2016 01:44:46 pm
What makes different people hove different hair colors?
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Mr. Biegun
1/3/2016 05:05:10 pm
Well, of course nowadays people can CHOOSE to color their hair- and sometimes I've asked myself: "what makes people choose those colors?" But I think you mean the hair color we are born with. That is determined by our genes (DNA), which we inherit from our parents. Hair color is what we call a hereditary trait, which means that the color of your hair comes from someone in your family tree- your parents, or their parents, or some further ancestor.
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Dorian Robinson
1/19/2016 03:47:06 pm
Is it possible for a person with blue eyes and a person with green eyes to have a brown eyed child? Is it possible for a person with brown eyes and a person with blue eyes to have a green eyed child? Is it possible for a person with brown eyes and a person with green eyes to have a blue eyed child? I can tell it is all about genetics but how does that work?
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Mr. Biegun
2/23/2016 06:54:34 pm
Hi Dorian,
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Dominique Robinson (Dorian and Donovan's lil' sis)
2/23/2016 05:23:11 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun, Why are people double-jointed?
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Mr. Biegun
2/23/2016 06:57:50 pm
Hi Dominique,
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ashley le
2/29/2016 07:28:51 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun do you know what does a super nova do are universe and is it good or bad. Thank you
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Mr. Biegun
2/29/2016 10:21:45 pm
Hi Ashley. When a star explodes in a supernova, it isn't necessarily always good or bad. If the star was fairly close to Earth, in our "neighborhood" of the universe, it could cause major problems on Earth. But if it's very far away, which it most likely would be, it doesn't really make any difference to us. The only affect we would notice is seeing one more beautiful nebula in space!
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Emma. W
3/1/2016 07:11:14 pm
What is the scientific explanation behind sneezing. (Why do we sneeze?)
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Mr. Biegun
3/2/2016 11:40:56 am
Sneezing is the body's way of getting tiny irritating objects out of the nose and breathing passages. There are lots of little nerves in there that can sense when something like a piece of dust gets in there where it doesn't belong. The nerves send a signal to the brain ("invader alert!") and the brain sends back a quick response: "Get that thing out of there! Red alert! Engage invader ejection system!!!" (or something like that).
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Dominique Robinson (Dorian and Donovan's 'lil sis)
3/5/2016 03:46:04 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
3/5/2016 10:11:14 pm
Hi Dominique,
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3/8/2016 04:44:11 pm
What if all the convection currents in the earth were moving in the same direction, would the continents all be shifting the same direction, would there be any volcanoes?
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Mr. Biegun
3/8/2016 08:54:43 pm
You've got the right idea, Ethan. I don't know the answer for sure; but when convection currents are going in opposite directions, it does cause the lithospheric plates to tear apart or crash together, and that is what causes mountains to form, sea-floors to split apart, and volcanoes to erupt.
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Marisa Zoller
3/20/2016 05:02:11 pm
How did our bodies form in the past billion years? what i'm trying to say is that how do we have organs and muscles and veins and white/red blood cells? where did it all come from?Was it made?
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Mr. Biegun
3/22/2016 08:14:04 pm
Hi Marisa,
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Dominique Robinson
3/22/2016 05:09:35 pm
I Wonder If Humans Evolve From Monkeys? If So How????
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Mr. Biegun
3/22/2016 08:31:43 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Dominique Robinson
3/22/2016 05:12:59 pm
Which Is Smaller Electrons or Atoms???
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Mr. Biegun
3/22/2016 08:36:28 pm
Here's one way to picture it, Dominique (I read this in a science book once): if you could make an atom grow to the size of a large sports arena (like the Palace of Auburn Hills), the nucleus at the center of the atom (the protons and neutrons) would be like a group of basketballs sitting at half-court. The electrons would be like bumblebees outside the arena flying in circles around the building at the outer edges of the parking lot (and going nearly at the speed of light!)
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Kimber Rhodes
3/28/2016 06:22:22 pm
So when every star and black hole dies out there will be only red dwarf stars left right? And if that is true would it be possiable to live on one? I hear that red dwarfs are the longest lasting stars but they can also be dangerous.
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 02:29:09 pm
Well, like all stars a red dwarf would be made of gas, and therefore you could never live "on" one, since there's no solid surface. However, I suppose there could be a planet near a red dwarf star. Since these stars are much cooler than the Sun, the planet would have to be much closer to the star than Earth is, in order to provide enough heat to have liquid water.
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Dora Lei
3/30/2016 08:58:22 am
How did life begin?
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 05:20:12 pm
Hi Dora,
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Dora Lei
3/30/2016 09:01:23 am
What was life before the big bang?
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 05:39:41 pm
Well, since the Big Bang was the very beginning of matter and energy and space and time, I don't think there's any way there could have been life before that- unless we are completely misunderstanding how the universe began!
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Tyana Carroll
3/30/2016 09:04:58 am
does ALL rocks start of with being Igneous?
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Mishwanth
3/30/2016 12:45:51 pm
Hi Tyana, remember when we learned how the igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks form. Each rock formed differently, so all rocks don't start off as igneous rocks it just depends on how they form.
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 05:44:07 pm
Actually, they were ALL igneous at first, since the whole Earth was melted at the beginning. As soon as a crust began to form, that would have been made of basalt and granite and other igneous rocks. Later they changed to metamorphic or sedimentary.
Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 05:41:35 pm
Hi Tyana,
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Ryan Hauk
3/30/2016 11:02:32 am
what are the properties of a throwing knife that makes it easy to throw, easy to stick in a target and how it dose not cut you when you throw one?
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 05:57:31 pm
I'm not on expert on this one, Ryan. In my job there aren't as many opportunities to throw dangerous objects as you might think.
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Nathan LaVoie
3/30/2016 12:28:22 pm
Why where the Homo Sapiens the ones to survive when there where other human like species. Like why didn't the Neanderthals, and what trait kept us alive?
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 06:16:54 pm
This is one of the big mysteries of human evolution, Nate. When homo sapiens (our guys) first started, there were at least 4 other species of humans around at the same time. Neanderthals ("homo neanderthalensis") died out around 30,000 years ago. We know for a fact that they lived in the same time and in some of the same places as homo sapiens. In fact, scientists have recently discovered that there was some interbreeding between the two species, and also with some of the other species.
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Gretchen Waltenspiel
3/30/2016 02:34:39 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun! I'd like to ask you something, (which is sort of weird)
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Mr. Biegun
3/30/2016 06:25:02 pm
Hi Gretchen,
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Mishwanth
4/2/2016 06:01:27 pm
Hello Mr.B I was just wondering if there is such a thing as healing rocks, because this morning I found this rock and when I asked my mom what was the rock doing in the house and my mom said that it was a healing rock. So is there such a thing as a healing rock?
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2016 06:11:26 pm
Hi Mishwanth,
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Emma Walters
4/5/2016 04:58:57 pm
Why do our ears pop when we are on an airplane?
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Mr. Biegun
4/5/2016 06:13:55 pm
Perfectly sciency, Emma! It's all about the ear drum, which is a membrane (like a layer of skin) stretched across the tunnel into your ear. There is a pocket of air on the other side of the ear drum, and it normally stays at the same air pressure as the outside of the ear drum.
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Alexis Yan
4/7/2016 08:27:51 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
4/9/2016 08:25:57 pm
Hi Alexis- great to hear from you!
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Dominique Robinson
4/12/2016 05:38:13 pm
How high can Kangaroos jump?
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Mr. Biegun
4/14/2016 07:02:47 pm
Best answer I can find is: kangaroos can jump up to 10 feet high if they really try, although normally they don't do that.
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Madison Grenier
4/17/2016 07:03:38 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
4/17/2016 07:46:35 pm
Hi Madison,
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Mr. Biegun
4/18/2016 10:14:31 pm
I looked it up. One human cell is about 100 trillion atoms.
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Emma W
4/18/2016 05:40:17 pm
This is from science club-
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Mr. Biegun
4/18/2016 10:17:10 pm
Most likely he'd come out like a bullet, then get knocked back down by a mass of high speed water coming out of the bottle. He'd be one dizzy bee! (And not very pleased).
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Mr. Biegun
4/25/2016 06:22:50 pm
The outer planets would have formed from hot gas rather than hot rock. Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are rocky planets and probably all started in a similar way.
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Madison Grenier
4/30/2016 09:08:01 pm
Hi, Mr. Biegun, my dad said there was this town in Pennsylvania that had to get closed down because the Earth is burning up beneath it, is that true?
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Mr. Biegun
4/30/2016 09:49:51 pm
I remember reading about that once. As you may know, Pennsylvania has a lot of coal in the ground. I believe an undergound fire somehow started burning in the coal many years ago. They tried many things to out it out, but it just keeps smoldering on, making a lot of awful smoke.
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Ethan VanHorn
5/3/2016 04:57:52 pm
If there was no mass extinctions, what would earth look like
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Mr. Biegun
5/7/2016 08:24:07 pm
That is very difficult to guess. Maybe all life would still be small squishy things living in the oceans. Certainly it would be very different from what we see today. When mass extinctions happen, new space is available for new kinds of things to evolve, and usually the new life forms are quite different from the ones before the extinction.
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Ethan VanHorn
5/3/2016 04:59:11 pm
If Gravity is why Mara is rocky and Jupiter gassy, why is Pluto ice/rock?
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Mr. Biegun
5/7/2016 08:30:18 pm
Nobody knows for sure why the planets formed the way they did. But one theory is that the Solar System has 3 types of "planet-like" bodies: the 4 inner planets are rocky because the Sun's stronger gravity pulled in the heavier stuff; then the 4 outer planets are gas giants because hydrogen and helium have less mass, so the Sun didn't pull them close; and beyond that are perhaps thousands of very small icy objects, which are like left-overs that never got pulled in close enough to become part of the planet group. Pluto is one of the larger ones of these.
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Ethan VanHorn
5/3/2016 05:01:28 pm
If all the planets were formed by gasses in space, how did the sun get so hot out of elements that were coller
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Mr. Biegun
5/7/2016 08:32:15 pm
The Sun is hot because its gravity is smashing hydrogen atoms together deep down inside the Sun, and this causes "fusion", in which hydrogen atoms join together to become helium atoms. Fusion gives off a tremendous amount of nuclear energy, and that's why the Sun is so bright and hot.
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Tyana
5/13/2016 03:54:19 pm
Why does Humans act very different from some animals? For example we have some characteristics that are the same.
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Mr. Biegun
5/14/2016 12:44:01 pm
Hi Tyana,
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Kelsey Wallace
5/17/2016 06:52:47 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun, I was wondering what causes wind to blow? Thank you👍🏻
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Mr. Biegun
5/19/2016 06:03:06 pm
Hi Kelsey. Wind can be caused by storms, of course, but the main reason we have wind is because of temperature differences, because there is uneven heating of the Earth's surface. So if a place gets hotter than other areas, the air over the hot place begins to rise (convection), and then WIND blows cooler air in from neighboring areas.
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Ryan Hauk
5/18/2016 10:36:02 am
could there really be a way to wall run and jump super high like in the video games? maybe in the future?
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Mr. Biegun
5/19/2016 06:04:15 pm
Like video games? I doubt it. But I'm sure people will continue to break athletic records for running and jumping, just like they always do in every Olympics.
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Cady Nowakowski
5/22/2016 10:00:28 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was going in to my backyard a couple of weeks ago to find salamanders and when I told my mom that I was going she said there aren't any salamanders in Michigan. I told her that you said that there are. How come there aren't as many salamanders in Michigan then there were in previous years
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Mr. Biegun
5/24/2016 10:15:07 am
Hi Cady,
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Ethan VanHorn
5/24/2016 06:25:01 pm
What is in the middle of a spiral galaxy.
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Mr. Biegun
5/25/2016 07:57:18 pm
In the last few years scientists have been investigating this, and they now believe that most spiral galaxies- and maybe ALL of them- have a giant black hole at the center. This is not like the black hole that happens from one ordinary large star, but is much bigger. It's called a "supermassive black hole", and may be the size of BILLIONS of stars.
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Madison Grenier
6/6/2016 06:18:18 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I have a really silly question. I was wondering why nobody is born with blue or green hair, instead of blonde, brown, or black?
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Mr. Biegun
6/6/2016 06:53:57 pm
Hi Madison,
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Victoria Lucas
9/12/2016 08:04:48 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun, I was wondering how are black holes formed?
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Mr. Biegun
9/13/2016 10:14:41 am
Hi Victoria,
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Alivia S
9/18/2016 02:06:06 pm
Hi Mr Biegun
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Mr. Biegun
9/19/2016 10:00:06 am
Hi Alivia,
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Alivia
9/19/2016 03:28:21 pm
Thanks Mr B
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nathan lavoie
9/20/2016 11:51:55 am
whats your opinion on life in our galaxy and life outside our galaxy
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2016 07:58:12 pm
Hi Nate,
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nathan lavoie
9/21/2016 01:59:49 pm
Thank you so much, do you think that there could be other dimension with other human like creatures.
Mr. Biegun
9/24/2016 10:54:51 am
Hi Nate,
Danielle
9/21/2016 07:42:25 pm
Hello, How do we dream and why?
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Mr. Biegun
9/24/2016 11:08:55 am
Hi Danielle,
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brianna jakaj
9/22/2016 09:18:37 am
hi, why is the sun so hot?
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Mr. Biegun
9/24/2016 11:14:30 am
Hi Brianna,
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Layla Martin
9/26/2016 06:59:19 pm
I wonder how many strands of hair an average 12 year old girl has? I say twelve because my birthday is tomorrow!! *hint* *hint*
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Mr. Biegun
9/27/2016 08:08:44 pm
Happy birthday, Layla! I don't know how many hairs an average girl would have- but I'm sure you are FAR above average! :-)
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Lillian
9/26/2016 08:22:47 pm
If their is water in the air, but its transparent-and we don't see it, how come clouds ARE water but we see it?
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Mr. Biegun
9/27/2016 08:12:36 pm
Hi Lillian,
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Christina marogy
9/28/2016 04:05:33 pm
I was just wondering that when we measure the ml of something graduated cylinder wise, why do we measure from the middle as if it were a bottom of a bowl? Or do we even measure from that point?
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2016 07:53:04 pm
Hi Christina,
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Jalisa Hill
9/30/2016 08:50:37 pm
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Jalisa Hill
10/2/2016 11:44:06 am
Light and Dark Blue water
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Mr Biegun
10/2/2016 12:18:55 pm
Hi Jalisa,
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erika mann
10/5/2016 09:09:20 pm
Mr. Beigun why do you need more sleep when you are younger but when you start to get older you start getting less sleep why is that?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:14:48 pm
Hi Erika,
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Devon lewis
10/9/2016 09:25:49 am
Does global warming cause storms.such as hurricane Matthew.If it does how and why.
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:18:41 pm
Hi Devon,
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Devon
10/9/2016 09:27:43 am
Do we have a science fair
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Makayla
10/9/2016 10:02:58 pm
Are you able to control your dreams when your sleeping
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:20:53 pm
Hi Makayla,
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Lillian
10/11/2016 07:00:01 am
How did scientist measure how hot the sun is? Or is it just a hypothesis or even a guess?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:28:18 pm
Hi Lily,
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Kimber Rhodes
10/14/2016 11:01:17 am
Is there a way to stop or reduce the effects of the hormones that make you not pay attention to things.
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:39:22 pm
Our ability to do this is still pretty unpredictable, Kimber. As you may know, some people take medications such as Ritalin or Adderal, which can help them to keep their focus if they are especially challenged, such as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). But scientists still don't really understand exactly how this works. In fact, oddly, these drugs are "stimulants", which seems to be the opposite of what you need if you're distracted. But somehow they seem to work . . . for some people. Other people don't seem to be affected, or have unpleasant side effects from the medicine.
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john olszak
10/14/2016 01:47:54 pm
what is the most radio active object we use every day
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2016 02:43:25 pm
Good question, Johnny! My guess would be smoke detectors, because they use a radioactive "button-sized" piece of Americium, element 95. I know you don't actually handle a smoke-detector every day, but it's there and it's working for you.
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Lillian
10/18/2016 01:30:43 pm
What makes leaves turn colors? and how do they become BRIGHT red?
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Mr. Biegun
10/25/2016 09:24:35 pm
Hi Lily,
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Caroline Lambert
10/28/2016 04:29:17 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was wondering if tardigrades (water bears) have thoughts?
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Mr. Biegun
10/31/2016 07:17:25 pm
Hi Caroline,
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Lillian
10/28/2016 06:02:34 pm
Hi, i was wondering why does moisturizing make you face smooth and/or soft?
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Mr. Biegun
10/31/2016 07:21:04 pm
Your skin cells are very absorbent, like a sponge. You have probably noticed that when you are in water for a long time your fingers and toes absorb so much water they become crinkly. People have discovered that certain types of chemicals can be absorbed by the skin, and trap the moisture in there to prevent it from evaporating and drying out the skin. But eventually those chemicals come out and you have to do it again. If someone could invent a formula that goes into the cells and STAYS there, perhaps people could put some on and prevent skin from ever getting dry!
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Jalisa Hill
10/29/2016 05:35:42 pm
How many tons of sand is there in the dessert and how many feet deep is the sand??
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Hi Jalisa,
10/31/2016 07:27:23 pm
That's a pretty big question! My guess is that nobody has the answer on that one, because the answer would be different in different places. I know there are some deserts where there is just a few inches of sand, and under that there is rock. In this kind of desert, sometimes the wind blows large areas of rock perfectly clear from sand, while other places can have sand dunes hundreds of feet thick.
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Victoria Escobar
10/31/2016 06:53:38 pm
Do you believe god made the world ( I do)
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Mr. Biegun
10/31/2016 07:35:31 pm
Hi Victoria,
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Victoria Escobar
11/22/2016 07:31:30 pm
well is it ok to think that God did make everything with a poof and to think that God made science for people to get to believe I him because I don't believe in the big bang
Mr. Biegun
11/27/2016 09:52:09 am
Of course, Victoria, you are free to believe whatever you want. All of us have to decide for ourselves how we decide what is "true" in life. Since I have found that science works very well for finding truth, I try to use evidence and logic to find out truth in everything. And since I believe in God, and I believe He loves us, I have faith that He has given us the ability to understand this world, and I believe it gives honor to God when we try to understand His creation.
Nitya Chellury
11/5/2016 06:01:27 pm
Why is your palm usually lighter than the back of your hand?
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Mr. Biegun
11/27/2016 09:56:01 am
That's a very good question, Nitya. I don't know why we would have evolved that way, but I guess it's safe to say the skin cells on your palm probably don't have as much melanin (skin pigment). Since melanin is like a natural sunscreen that protects skin from ultraviolet light, maybe the reason is that we don't tend to get sunburn on our palms very much! Or maybe those skin cells need to be tougher (same for the soles of your feet), and that might make it harder for them to have melanin.
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Mishwant Chodagam
11/17/2016 02:56:13 am
Hi Mr. Biegun its me mishwanth I have a question why does water take the shape of a sphere when it is in mid-air
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Mr. Biegun
11/17/2016 09:47:00 am
Hi Mishwanth,
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Mishwanth
11/17/2016 10:43:57 am
Thanks Mr.B its nice to have herd from you after a long time and I miss studying in your class so much and Mr.B if you can please say hi to my Friends for me. Bye
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Alivia
11/21/2016 04:42:51 pm
Hi Mr Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
11/23/2016 10:48:02 pm
Thanks for being such a good sport, Alivia. The next day, Jadyn did the also did it- and it worked just as well! I'll have both of the videos up on the Science Club page next week.
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wally franklin
11/22/2016 03:38:37 pm
i wounder how a bearded dragons bread puffs out
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Mr. Biegun
11/23/2016 10:49:43 pm
I did read an article about bearded dragons, and it said they puff out their beard as a way to react to danger. It did not explain HOW they do this, but usually when animals cause parts of their body to expand, it is by pumping extra blood into that area. I assume its the same here.
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Alivia
11/24/2016 11:56:45 am
Hi thanks for the answer but i have another question! When you drink pop how come sometimes you get a fizzy burning feeling in your nose thanks.
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Mr. Biegun
11/27/2016 09:45:31 am
As you know, carbonated beverages contain a lot of carbon dioxide gas dissolved in the liquid. When you are swallowing the pop, the gas bubbles come out of the pop. Some of this might make you burp, but some of it rises up the back of your throat and gets into your nasal breathing passages. That's the burning sensation you are feeling. As far as why it burns, I'm not sure, but I know that carbon dioxide is slightly acidic, so that might explain it.
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Lillian
11/29/2016 07:43:34 pm
Why did America choose red,green, and yellow for the street lights but in japan some of them are blue?
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Mr. Biegun
12/4/2016 07:53:15 am
I never heard that before, Lillian! I can only guess that blue might have some different significance in Japanese culture; in America, it is used in many situations as a sign that everything is ok and it's safe to go forward (think of green lights on your electronic devices). Of course, maybe that all started with green traffic lights, I don't know.
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brianna jakaj
11/30/2016 04:26:26 pm
hey, why is jupiter is so big
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Mr. Biegun
12/4/2016 07:58:17 am
Hi Brianna,
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Lillian
12/6/2016 08:13:45 pm
Why does the hand you write with fingernails grow longer? Why do your fingernails grow faster than your toenails?
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Mr. Biegun
12/17/2016 03:39:23 pm
I have honestly never heard this before, Lillian. I do not know the answer- but I think I can make an educated guess. In order for any part of your body to grow, it is naturally going to need blood flow to bring nutrients, oxygen, water, etc, which are the raw materials you are made of. If you are using one hand MORE than the other hand, it makes sense that the hand that's moving being exercised more will have more blood flow, and that might lead to more growth in the fingernails (and muscles too!)
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Lillian
12/18/2016 11:50:14 am
Yeah, i found this information from multiple websites and from a few different people who confirm it's true, and i have no idea why different fingernails grow longer, I'd think instead your fingernails would grow faster than toenails instead we probably use our hands more than are toes (for writing). But i have no clue to why your dominate hand fingernails grow faster than your non-dominate. Because what would happen if your ambidextrous? Which fingernails would grow faster than? would they grow at the same time and length?
Emma Walters
12/10/2016 09:35:14 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun!!
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Mr. Biegun
12/17/2016 03:58:06 pm
Hi Emma,
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brianna jakaj
1/6/2017 08:59:07 am
hey mr.biegun, what gives us the energy to do work?
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Mr. Biegun
1/11/2017 08:26:14 pm
Hi Brianna- I miss seeing you in class! I hope you are well.
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Lillian
1/10/2017 08:23:02 pm
I was wondering, how did scientist discover and know what personalities go into each Zodiac Sign?
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Mr. Biegun
1/11/2017 09:37:00 am
Actually, Lillian, scientists have discovered just the opposite. After a lot of investigation, they have found absolutely no connection between a person't personality and the day or month they are born.
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Lillian
1/12/2017 08:19:37 pm
How come when you pinch up by your neck/collarbone you don't feel a lot of the pain, but when you pinch your arm or leg, how come it hurts more? Is it because their is less nerves, or is it just based on how much the person can handle pain?
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Mr. Biegun
1/13/2017 09:39:21 am
I live such a boring life . . . I never thought to test the pain threshold by pinching myself all over! :-)
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Jalisa Hill
1/13/2017 05:57:00 pm
What is Californium and what is it used for?
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Mr. Biegun
1/13/2017 09:52:40 pm
Hi Jalisa,
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Lillian
1/16/2017 06:52:06 pm
How come when you put something important to you (Blanket, stuffed animal,person, etc) on a cut or wound it feels a bit better?
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Mr. Biegun
1/20/2017 09:19:35 pm
I've never heard anything about that, Lillian, but it would have to be an emotional reaction rather than some physical effect. In other words, it would be a result of being comforted by something that makes you feel safe and relaxed. There is certainly an emotional aspect to any kind of physical pain, so feeling more relaxed and comforted may very well reduce a person't perception of pain, even though something like a stuffed animal couldn't actually affect the physical injury itself.
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Victoria Lucas
1/20/2017 02:10:27 pm
What is einsteinium and what is it used for? Is it a solid liquid or gas?
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Mr. Biegun
1/20/2017 09:22:54 pm
Hi Victoria,
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Lillian
1/27/2017 07:00:42 am
Can to much air make a flame go out? (If your throwing it around will it make the flame go out?)
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Mr. Biegun
1/27/2017 04:16:32 pm
As you may recall from our discussion of the "fire triangle" earlier this year, a fire can only burn if it has all three "legs" of the triangle: oxygen, fuel, and enough heat to get started (and keep going).
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Lillian
1/28/2017 07:35:33 am
Waving it around quickly is what i meant
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Lillian
1/28/2017 04:49:11 pm
It's kind of a rude question...but why do they call it common sense if it's not all that common?
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Mr. Biegun
2/15/2017 05:53:41 pm
Hey, Lillian- sorry for the delay on this!
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Christina Marogy
2/3/2017 01:31:16 pm
I've always wondered on why we're in the car and we look out the window, the moon is always following us? Is there science behind this?
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Mr. Biegun
2/4/2017 02:19:58 pm
Hi Christina,
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Christina Marogy
2/4/2017 12:34:06 pm
Also, I've always been a little curious on lucid dreaming and dreams in general. How does laying on your back trigger and make the chances higher to lucid dream? I've also heard somewhere that if you say "I want to lucid dream tonight" before you go to sleep, it increases your chances of lucid dreaming which I thought was kind of weird. I personally think controlling your dreams is awesome, but I'm also afraid of sleep paralysis. Can you tell me more about this topic? Sorry if this is really long.
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Mr. Biegun
2/4/2017 02:35:45 pm
I don't know a lot about "lucid dreaming", Christina. Actually, I'm not sure anybody really does! The idea behind it is that a person might be able to do something to control the events in their dreams, at least a little bit.
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Alivia
2/14/2017 05:06:22 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun I was watching the trailer for A Dogs Purpose that everyone was talking about it a kind of silly question bloomed in my head so anyway... I wonder if dogs have a conscious? Do they think about what they do? Finally do they have like a little "voice" in their head like we do? Thanks
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Mr. Biegun
2/15/2017 06:08:40 pm
I confess, Alivia, I don't know anything about "A Dog's Purpose". I guess it's a movie, right?
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erika mann
2/16/2017 08:43:51 pm
hi mr. Biegun i was wondering why its so cold in space and why theres no gravity but its not even as close to that cold on earth and we have gravity?
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Mr. Biegun
2/23/2017 11:23:10 am
Hi Erika,
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Lillian
2/17/2017 12:41:30 pm
I remember reading on a website and it saying 'if you don't sleep for 3 days you will go insane' i thought about this and I was wondering what happens to your mind when you stay up for a full 24 hours? You were talking about in class that none of our energy comes from sleep, only food, so what if I still ate food but i didn't sleep? How does this effect the way we act and see things?
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Mr. Biegun
2/23/2017 11:39:50 am
What you are talking about is "sleep deprivation", and there has been a lot of research on this. You might be interested in reading the Wikipedia article, which gives a good description of the effects and some extreme cases.
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Sienna
2/17/2017 02:31:37 pm
Mr. Biegun I was wondering why oceans and seas are blue and a cup of water is clear?
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Mr. Biegun
2/23/2017 11:55:45 am
That's an interesting question, Sienna. In order to make a fair comparison, I suppose you would have to look at a cup of water that is as BIG as an ocean; or else compare a cup of ocean water to a cup of tap water.
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2/27/2017 06:23:25 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun, I was wondering how exactly did the big bang start up the creation of the Earth. What was it about the explosion that started the Earth?
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2017 11:25:37 am
Hi Bailey,
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Lillian
2/28/2017 08:53:06 pm
What's the difference of Bipolar Disorder and Bipolar Depression?
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2017 11:37:45 am
I'm not an expert on this, Lillian, so I did a little reading. I can't find that there is anything called "bipolar depression", but a person with Bipolar Disorder would normally experience depression sometimes as a part of the condition. Bipolar disorder is a condition in which a person sometimes feels extremely "up" (emotionally) and sometimes extremely "down". Keep in mind that this is something that pretty much occurs to EVERYONE, to some extent; we all naturally go through times of "good mood" and "bad mood", some people more than others, and it can vary at different stages of life. For instance it is well known that during times when hormones are changing rapidly, a person's emotions can change drastically as well, such as during teenage years, or during pregnancies, or sometimes for older people as their body starts to change with age.
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Lillian
3/6/2017 06:57:00 pm
How come when your stressed your blood vessels die? What kills them? And what's the process of their deaths?
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Mr. Biegun
3/8/2017 10:04:14 pm
It wouldn't be correct to say that stress causes blood vessels to "die". Blood vessels can't just die.
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Richard
3/7/2017 09:03:27 pm
I just watched a video regarding a large underground reservoir of saturated stone 400 miles beneath the earth. So, is it possible that Earth's water originated from within?
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Mr. Biegun
3/9/2017 10:12:09 am
Hi Richard,
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Natalie Z.
3/8/2017 08:31:17 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
3/8/2017 10:17:49 pm
Hi Natalie,
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Rocky Jacobs
3/14/2017 05:45:00 pm
Hi Mr biegun, today when I got home I asked my dad how he would build a compass and he said he would get something metal and float it on a leaf so I said he would need to magnetize the meatal but he said you don't because the earth is magnetic, so do you need to magnetize metal or not, thank you
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Mr. Biegun
3/14/2017 06:03:15 pm
Hi Rocky,
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Duncan
3/25/2017 08:08:29 pm
What is the difference between magma and lava? If they are both liquid rock why are they named differently?
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Mr. Biegun
4/8/2017 02:45:25 pm
Hi Duncan,
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Lillian
3/26/2017 08:08:22 pm
What is the most common Phobia?
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Mr. Biegun
4/8/2017 03:05:40 pm
Well, I'm no expert, so I consulted Mr. Google. According to his friend Mrs. Wikipedia, phobias are an extreme fear of certain objects or situations. The most common are fear of snakes, spiders or heights.
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Lillian
4/10/2017 08:01:46 pm
I'm wondering what your brain looks like and how it reacts to yourself and somebody else when you tell lies. What part of your brain makes you want to tell the truth?
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Mr. Biegun
4/11/2017 08:45:00 pm
Interesting that you would ask this, Lillian, because I just read an article about this topic last week! It turns out that scientists have recently been studying this, in a rather interesting way. They put people inside an MRI machine that could scan their brain, while the subjects participated in a sort of activity where they could get rewards by answering questions- BUT they had the opportunity to increase the reward in some cases by LYING. The machine observed which parts of the brain were most "active" (sending electrical signals) while the person was lying.
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Makayla Williams
4/11/2017 08:04:31 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun so when we watched the video about earth it said that we think that it was made out of lava, magma,and Volcanoes. If the world started out with hot things how did the ice age begin?
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Mr. Biegun
4/11/2017 08:51:30 pm
Hi Makayla,
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Sienna Rivas Foster
4/12/2017 05:05:22 pm
Why is the ocean blue when a glass of water is clear?
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Mr. Biegun
4/12/2017 05:10:33 pm
Hi Sienna,
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Qijia Zhou
4/15/2017 08:56:51 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
4/20/2017 05:16:52 pm
Hi Jiajia! Glad to hear from you- I hope your school year is going well.
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Bradley Ly
4/19/2017 06:55:13 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun I always wonder this question every time I hear or think about the universe. What is the universe made of? By the way this is my first time asking you a science question on your website.
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Mr. Biegun
4/20/2017 05:19:01 pm
Hi Bradley,
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Kimber Rhodes
4/28/2017 11:06:03 am
So I was wondering why water has a freezing point above its normal boiling point when water in in a nanotube, and why nanorods can gather water from the air, and expel water at a certain humidity, couldn't that be used to purify salt water by boiling it and having nanotubes above it to collect the water that evaporates off?
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Mr. Biegun
5/14/2017 05:01:54 pm
Wow, Kimber, that sounds pretty cool. Haven't heard of it. Can you tell me where I can learn about this?
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Richard Feng
4/28/2017 11:17:12 am
Would it ever be possible to artificially make a strand of DNA in a cell, fertilize it, and put it back into an animal in order to give the new animal "superpowers"?
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Mr. Biegun
5/14/2017 05:12:57 pm
I wouldn't want to say this is "impossible", but as far as I know we are still a long way from creating DNA from scratch as you are describing. What scientists ARE doing right now is "snipping out" genes from the chromosomes of one organism, then splicing that back into the chromosome of other organisms to create new genetic combinations that did not exist in nature.
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Lillian
4/29/2017 12:19:12 am
When you find out someone is going away, what usual emotions do you feel? How does the brain react? What can this effect?
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Mr. Biegun
5/14/2017 05:24:24 pm
Hi Lillian,
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Quentin Todd
5/9/2017 05:32:19 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
5/14/2017 05:33:47 pm
Hi Quentin,
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briannna jakaj
5/22/2017 11:04:39 am
hello, mr.beigun. what causez global warming
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brianna jakaj
5/23/2017 10:33:53 am
sorry i spelled cause wrong so i meant causes
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Mr. Biegun
6/16/2017 10:03:24 pm
Hi Brianna,
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Sienna Rivas Foster
5/22/2017 02:25:30 pm
Mr. Biegun, how can one of the weakest acids (carbonic acid) rot our strongest set of bones (our teeth), are our bones weaker than acid?
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Mr. Biegun
6/16/2017 10:09:45 pm
Hi Sienna,
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Lilly Wing
5/22/2017 02:31:13 pm
I wonder if we will ever get any more moons?
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Mr. Biegun
6/16/2017 10:13:34 pm
Hi Lilly,
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Jesssa Chan
5/22/2017 02:43:10 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was at the doctors the other day and I started wondering why some body parts keep growing when others stop.
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Mr. Biegun
6/16/2017 10:18:46 pm
Hi Jessa,
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Mishwant Chodagam
7/6/2017 07:37:02 am
Hi Mr.B its me Mishwanth hope your having a nice day also this is not an I wonder question, but I wanted to ask you if you could get Devin wilson's or Richard's number after summer vacation if possible. It is fine if your not able to , but please try to I miss them so much. Also please don't approve this or post it because its a personal mail only for you to read. Once again hope your having a nice day and a great summer vacation
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Madison Wright
9/8/2017 03:43:25 pm
Would anyone ACTUALLY be able to travel at the speed of light?
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Dominique
9/8/2017 08:13:38 pm
This is what I was wondering too. It was on the home work assignment in science, right?
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Mr. Biegun
9/9/2017 12:38:12 pm
Great question, Madison. This is a question that is at the heart of Albert Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity", which you may have heard of in the equation "E = mc2".
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brenden
9/26/2017 09:16:09 am
hi
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Chloe Ward
9/8/2017 04:11:48 pm
Who discovered all of the planets??
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Mr. Biegun
9/9/2017 12:55:09 pm
Hi Chloe,
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Dominique R.
9/8/2017 04:41:15 pm
I wonder where fireflies go during the day.
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Mr. Biegun
9/9/2017 01:02:12 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Dominique R.
9/9/2017 02:18:02 pm
Thanks Mr. Biegun.
Mr. Biegun
9/9/2017 01:11:36 pm
Hi Marcus,
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Ryan Gibbs
9/11/2017 07:34:50 pm
Hey Mr Biegun I was wondering that if we were evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys??? Also is it true that the center of the earth is harder than the sun??? Thx bye!😁
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Mr. Biegun
9/11/2017 08:05:44 pm
Hi Ryan,
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Mr. Biegun
9/11/2017 08:12:31 pm
Regarding your question about the Earth, I've never heard that before, but let's see what that might mean: The center of the Earth is a big ball of very hot metal (probably iron and nickel). Certainly a ball of metal would be harder than the hydrogen gas that makes up most of the Sun. After all, the Earth itself is mostly a big ball of rock and metal, and the Sun is a huge ball of gas, so of course the Earth is mostly harder than the Sun (at least the outside part of the Sun; we aren't sure what the center might be like).
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Fiona Hamer
9/11/2017 08:17:07 pm
Hey. This was on the hw, and I was wondering about it. How DOES a lie detector work? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it reads your heart rate, right?
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Mr. Biegun
9/11/2017 08:30:09 pm
Yes, Fiona, I believe that is the basic idea. It detects heart rate and blood pressure and other physical changes that often occur when people are trying to hide information.
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Fiona Hamer
9/11/2017 08:44:26 pm
Okay, thanks!
Reisha Taragaturi
9/11/2017 08:32:07 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun! On my "I Wonder" paper today, I had more than one favorite question that I wanted to ask. What would happen if the Earth didn't have a moon?
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Mr. Biegun
9/11/2017 09:11:45 pm
Hi Reisha,
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Reisha Taragaturi
9/12/2017 03:26:36 pm
Thanks Mr.Biegun! I'll be sure to check it out!
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Ayah Suliaman
9/12/2017 05:21:56 pm
Mr. Biegun if you put an ice cube in a cup and let it melt does the mass change?
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Mr. Biegun
9/12/2017 06:03:12 pm
Hello Ayah,
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Diego Bermudez
9/12/2017 07:55:15 pm
If you drilled a hole straight to the other side of the earth. Then you drop a penny and rock in the hole. Will they go straight through the earth?
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Mr. Biegun
9/13/2017 03:08:44 pm
Would the penny and rock go straight through? Well, yes and no.
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Diego bermudez
9/13/2017 04:02:14 pm
thanks
Breanna Nelson
9/12/2017 11:02:50 pm
Mr.Biegun, I know its probably odd for me to be back here asking a question even though i'm an eighth grader and I could probably just look it up,but you do give the greatest answer's. What affect do the hurricane's have on long term weather patterns?
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Mr. Biegun
9/13/2017 03:13:55 pm
Hi Breanna,
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Luca Pop
9/13/2017 04:55:58 pm
Hey Mr.Biegun is it possible to freeze anti-freeze with liquid nitrogen?
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Mr. Biegun
9/13/2017 05:18:30 pm
What a great question! I think I'm going to have to try that next time I bring some liquid nitrogen to school.
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Luca Pop
9/14/2017 04:07:37 pm
Thank you Mr.Beigun
Anish Jain
9/13/2017 09:37:34 pm
I have a question Mr. Biegun, why is water wet?
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Mr. Biegun
9/14/2017 09:49:10 am
Interesting question, Anish. You are not asking why water is a LIQUID, but you are asking why it is WET, which usually means "why does it stick to my skin when I touch it?"
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Anish Jain
9/13/2017 09:38:37 pm
Is there any other natural elements on Earth we haven't found yet?
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Mr. Biegun
9/14/2017 10:00:54 am
That is highly unlikely, based on our current understanding of matter.
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Luca Pop
9/14/2017 04:12:38 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I know this was on my i wonder paper but have we ever created a calculator that does'nt say ERROR and why cant we create a computer/calculator that can calculate the number pi?
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 08:36:34 pm
Hi Lucas,
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Andrew Song
9/14/2017 06:05:29 pm
Hi Mr.Beigun Why does chewing gum not stick to your mouth but bubble gum does a little bit?
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 08:42:22 pm
Hi Andrew,
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Reisha Taragaturi
9/14/2017 07:31:41 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun! Do our feet ever actually touch the ground when we walk?
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 08:48:06 pm
Nope! I have a feeling you might have heard about this before, Reisha!
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Taiya williams
9/14/2017 08:01:13 pm
Hi Mr , Biegun ,
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 08:50:25 pm
Hi Taiya,
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Fiona Hamer
9/15/2017 07:21:39 am
Dear Mr. Biegun, currently in on the bus, but I have a question. What happens when lava or magma meets ice??? Thankies~
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 08:57:12 pm
Now that is REALLY cool, Fiona- sending me science questions from the bus!
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Sol
9/15/2017 08:05:08 pm
What happens if you travel at speed of light?
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Mr. Biegun
9/15/2017 09:11:15 pm
Hi Sol,
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Hi its Paige Inez
9/16/2017 12:04:19 pm
Hi Mr.Beigun I was wondering for the science experiment this week if we can use cleaning vinegar instead of regular vinegar. Or should I just get regular vinegar?
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Me. Biegun
9/16/2017 02:38:54 pm
Any vinegar will do! Really, lemon juice should work as well since it is also an acid.
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kaushik vellore HOUR= 1
9/17/2017 10:14:32 am
Does God exist?????
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Mr. Biegun
9/17/2017 04:26:04 pm
Hi Kaushik,
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kaushik HOUR= 1
9/18/2017 12:38:25 pm
A lot to read but i understood
Andrew Song
9/18/2017 08:07:49 pm
What would happen if there were no air for about 10 seconds Mr.Biegun?
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2017 09:01:27 pm
Hmm, that's an interesting thought, Andrew. You could certainly hold your breath for 10 seconds easily, so that's not a problem.
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Luke Marzolf
9/19/2017 03:43:12 pm
Hi, what would happen if a black hole appeared next to earth for 1 second
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2017 09:04:52 pm
Wow, Luke, were you talking to Andrew? (see the question above). Sounds kind of similar.
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Reisha Taragaturi
9/19/2017 06:36:10 pm
Is it possible for an earthquake in Michigan???
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2017 09:10:09 pm
Yes, Reisha, there have been several earthquakes in Michigan in my lifetime; however, they are always very small earthquakes, and most people don't even feel them when they happen. We are very unlikely to ever have a dangerous earthquake here, just because Michigan is not on a part of the Earth that has deep cracks (faults) in the crust.
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Annabella Treadway
9/20/2017 06:36:11 pm
What came first the chicken or the egg? Because how do you have a chicken without and egg, but how do you have and egg without a chicken??
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2017 09:23:58 pm
Hi Annabella,
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Annabella Treadway
9/21/2017 06:52:42 pm
Thank you, Mr. Biegun :)
Cortez Johnson
9/23/2017 12:14:48 am
Is it possible that you can make fire with out a lighter or anything that can make a fire.???!!
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Mr. Biegun
9/23/2017 06:25:25 pm
Hi Cortez,
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Dominique Robinson
9/23/2017 06:43:02 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun, I was wondering if there was a way earthquakes and volcano eruptions be predicted? Thank you!
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Mr. Biegun
9/23/2017 08:03:25 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Dominique Robinson
9/23/2017 09:47:15 pm
Thank you so much Mr. Biegun!
Andrew Song
9/24/2017 02:48:20 pm
How can snakes move if they don't have legs?
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Mr. Biegun
9/24/2017 08:16:37 pm
Hi Andrew,
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Nicole Schroeder
9/24/2017 03:37:10 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
9/24/2017 08:33:16 pm
Hi Nicole,
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Marrcus M
9/25/2017 04:49:16 pm
This is a question from my little brother.
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:24:53 pm
This is a great question, but it's one of those things that's hard to understand until you FIRST understand some other things, such as what an atom is made of (protons, neutrons and electrons), and most importantly, HOW the electrons are positioned in the atoms.
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ella dotan
9/25/2017 05:18:11 pm
Hi Mr. Beigun, why do asteroids and meteors become smaller when entering earths atmosphere? thanks!
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kaushik vellore
9/26/2017 08:47:07 am
i didn't know that thanks!!!
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:36:00 pm
Hi Ella (and Kaushik),
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Avery Schneider
9/25/2017 05:45:25 pm
Mr.Biegun i was wondering how mosquito's bite people.
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Laela Bhatti
9/26/2017 11:13:05 am
beacuse they need to eat
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Luca Pop
9/26/2017 02:19:10 pm
well they have a stinger/ straw that they stick into your skin and suck blood. And you get the bump because the mosquito left a gap in your vein and then blood flows out and swells.
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:42:04 pm
Hi Avery,
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Kaushik vellore Hour 1
9/26/2017 08:44:47 am
will there ever be a new planet in the solar system???
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:48:01 pm
Hi Kaushik,
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Sohan Ketireddy
9/26/2017 08:47:26 am
Why is the Earth tilted?
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:51:54 pm
Scientists believe that way back when our Solar System formed, over 4 billion years ago, there were more planets than there are now. (See my response to Kaushik, above, for more on this).
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Kaitlynn Garza Hernandez
9/26/2017 08:48:16 am
Mr. Biegun will earth have a 2 moons
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 07:55:52 pm
Very unlikely, Kaitlynn! If you read my answers to Sohan and Kaushik just above, you'll see how the moon formed, and why we probably won't ever have another one.
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Geneva Joshua
9/26/2017 08:48:53 am
Hello Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:03:35 pm
Hi Geneva,
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Geneva Joshua
9/27/2017 04:47:18 pm
Thanks Mr. Biegun for the precise information. I really appreciate you explaining my question in detail.
Bianca Chandel
9/26/2017 08:49:31 am
I wonder how stars were formed?
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:09:01 pm
Stars form when clouds of gas and dust "collapse" inward by their own gravity. The more the atoms move closer together, the more they pull in the other gas and dust.
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:14:58 pm
It's important to understand that this is not just a "decision" the bears make. Animals that hibernate "evolved" to do this.
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Hannah Miller
9/26/2017 08:52:36 am
how many stars are in the universe?
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:21:22 pm
Well, Hanna, we will never know the exact answer, because we just can't see a lot of the stars, even with the best telescopes. Also, every day some stars "die" (explode or collapse) while new stars are still being born all the time.
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Madison Wright
9/26/2017 08:55:08 am
Speaking of space, why does he moon revolve around the Earth instead of other planets?
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:23:37 pm
Hi Madison,
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Domenic Mihaj
9/26/2017 08:56:33 am
What would the world do when we run out of coal and oil?
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Mr. Biegun
9/26/2017 08:27:08 pm
Hi Dominic,
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joey wall
9/26/2017 08:59:41 am
How long could a person survive and the speed of light.
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Mr. Biegun
9/27/2017 08:24:57 pm
Not sure I understand you there, Joey. Are you asking how long a person could survive while traveling at the speed of light?
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Ava Palm
9/26/2017 09:01:04 am
Hi Mr. Biegun i was wondering how and why do trees produce oxygen thanks!
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Mr. Biegun
9/27/2017 08:37:25 pm
Trees and most other plants are not able to “eat” food, so they make their own food, using a chemical reaction called photosynthesis.
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Eli Alban
9/26/2017 09:09:14 am
How old is Earth
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Mr. Biegun
9/27/2017 08:43:08 pm
Hi Eli,
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Marisa J
9/26/2017 09:15:56 am
What is the most odd named animal that you know?
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2017 05:20:04 pm
Well, I will resist the urge to talk about a cartoon dog named "Mr. Peabody". That's a pretty weird name, but I never knew him personally. :-)
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Magdalena Waltenspiel
9/26/2017 09:17:13 am
I wonder how hot Mercury can get?
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2017 05:25:00 pm
I assume you mean the planet, and not the element.
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julie king
9/26/2017 09:18:37 am
i was wondering how big space is
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2017 05:29:24 pm
The size of the universe is something we can't measure with any certainty. What we do know is that the universe began with the "Big Bang" about 13 billion years ago. It has been expanding every since, and it expands outward at about the speed of light. So you could imagine the universe like a big beach ball blowing up (and we are on the inside) and it is about 26 billion light years across. But we really can't say if this is an accurate way to picture it.
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Matthew ragan
9/26/2017 10:39:57 am
how do gose form
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2017 05:32:35 pm
Hi Matthew,
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Madelyn Bovensiep
9/26/2017 10:43:41 am
Why do trees breath in Carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen and humans breath in oxygen and breath out Carbon dioxide???
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:23:29 pm
Hi Madelyn,
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Faaris
9/26/2017 10:43:50 am
Do you know how planets form ?
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:38:56 pm
Well, Faaris . . . have you ever seen what it looks like when lots of dust collects under a couch or under a bed? When there is a lot of dust, it starts to stick together in little clumps or balls of dust. (Some people call them "dust bunnies").
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Brigitte Chan
9/26/2017 10:44:13 am
I wonder why we breath in Oxygen but breath out Carbon Dioxide?
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:39:56 pm
Hi Brigitte,
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Eden McClelland
9/26/2017 10:46:52 am
Why cant people survive in space? Why cant we breath that air?
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:44:18 pm
That's the problem, Eden. There isn't any air in space. There is no way to breathe unless you are inside a space suit that has an oxygen tank.
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Ivan Jimenez Morales
9/26/2017 10:55:37 am
I wonder how / when can black holes open
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:47:50 pm
Hi Ivan,
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lizzie berta
9/26/2017 10:57:00 am
hi i was wondering what is grass made of
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:54:00 pm
Hi Lizzie,
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Sarah Collins
9/26/2017 11:06:39 am
Hi Mr.Biegun, i was wondering how all the planets formed.
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:55:28 pm
Hi Sarah,
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Laela Bhatti
9/26/2017 11:12:16 am
What happens if you touch elephant tooth paste. also what happens if u touch liquid nitro
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 08:59:38 pm
Elephant toothpaste is really just a lot of soap suds coming out of a chemical reaction in a bottle with a narrow opening. (Of course it is not really toothpaste at all). The chemical reaction produces a LOT of heat, so you would burn your hand if you touched it.
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Zisa Miller
9/26/2017 11:13:05 am
How can water get to a point of not freezing when getting cold but when freezing in motion?
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 09:04:57 pm
Hi Zisa,
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mason bright
9/26/2017 12:12:06 pm
what is the temp. helium has to get to to liquefy
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 09:10:16 pm
Helium in the liquid form is the coldest any matter can get without becoming a solid. Helium gas, such as in a balloon, will turn to liquid at -452°F.
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Eva Burgaj
9/26/2017 12:12:22 pm
Mr.Biegun I was wondering Why bees sting people even if they die right after
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 09:15:02 pm
Hi Eva,
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noah bates
9/26/2017 12:14:12 pm
hi mr b i was wondering about how cold can a ballon get without poping
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 09:18:56 pm
I don't know what the limits are, but I'm sure I will be able to demonstrate this at some point this year. You can put a balloon into liquid nitrogen, and the balloon will cool down to -320°F. At that point, the air inside the balloon is so cold, it turns to LIQUID in the balloon (just a tiny bit of liquid, less than a spoonful). The balloon at that point will be as flat as a piece of paper!
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jake tripoli
9/26/2017 12:16:00 pm
whats your favorite animal
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Mr. Biegun
9/29/2017 09:23:25 pm
That's a hard question, Jake! I like different animals for different reasons: I like dolphins for their intelligence. I would love to be able to soar in the sky like an eagle, or leap around in the treetops like a monkey. I've always liked bears, because they seem kind of lazy, and I often feel that way. And I've always liked otters because they really like to play!
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Connor Good
9/26/2017 12:16:39 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!!!
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 11:42:13 am
Hi Connor,
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Ryan Gibbs
9/26/2017 12:16:50 pm
how do people know how fast the speed of light is?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 11:57:33 am
Hi Ryan,
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Rachel Schmitt
9/26/2017 12:18:36 pm
I wonder how deep the oceans are, and why they cant make machines that can find out.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:05:25 pm
Well . . . welcome to 2017, Rachel! We certainly do know how deep the oceans are, and we've been using machines to measure that for about a hundred years now!
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Ayah Sulaiman
9/26/2017 12:20:36 pm
Mr. Biegun e and my brother were eating fruit and we found a tinier version f the fruit inside where did the smaller fruit come from?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:07:14 pm
Wow, that must have been surprising! I've never heard of that before. Do you know what kind of fruit it was? Is it possible that what you found was just a seed or "pit" that looked like the fruit? Or did you actually bite into the mini-fruit? Did you take a picture?
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Anthony Seehoffer
9/26/2017 12:20:49 pm
I wonder why scientist ever thought about going to space.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:26:48 pm
Anthony, here is something you should know about humans: we are naturally made to WANT to know about things. If your mom placed a closed box on the counter and said, "Anthony, don't look in this box", and then she left the room . . . what would you be thinking? I bet you'd want to sneak a look in the box.
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Reisha Taragaturi
9/26/2017 12:22:47 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:39:04 pm
Oh, it's way cooler than that, Reisha! India was once NOT joined to Asia; instead, it was down near the South Pole, where it was joined to Africa- AND Antarctica, and Australia! When the continents shifted (about 170 million years ago in the Jurassic period), India broke off, and for a long time it was a lonely island, slowly moving north across what we now call the Indian Ocean (at a rate of about 6 inches per year), until it finally "crashed" into the southern edge of Asia. India continued bulldozing north into Asia, plowing up a huge mountain range called the Himalayas.
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andrew
9/26/2017 12:22:55 pm
hi Mr.biegun, I was wondering what causes wasp stings to swell up?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:41:31 pm
Hi Andrew,
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Tyler Herzog
9/26/2017 12:23:06 pm
i wonder what would happen if you pored liquid nitrogen on a doge ball and then threw it at a wall.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:42:43 pm
I have not done this with a dodge ball- but now I want to! I've done it with racquetballs and tennis balls. (The ball shatters like glass.)
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Sabrina Palmer
9/26/2017 12:24:35 pm
Who is the smartest person on earth?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 12:52:45 pm
Well, Sabrina, I'll bet you can figure out why this is an "unanswerable" question. It's kind of like asking who is the most beautiful person. It depends on how you define the word "smart" or "beautiful".
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Sabrina
10/18/2017 07:45:21 pm
Sorye I read this so late :( I will think about it. Thank you Mr.B! :)
Hailey Marcum
9/26/2017 12:24:47 pm
i wonder how long the human body can last in the arctic with no gear.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 01:48:29 pm
Of course, the fastest problem you would have in a place like that is getting too cold if you don't have proper clothing. A person would quickly get hypothermia (their body temperature drops), and he or she would die in a pretty short time.
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Maria Bara
9/26/2017 12:25:56 pm
I wonder is there is a chemical that can make the fire resist onder water? if there is that's cool .!!
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 01:52:28 pm
Do you mean, is there a way for fire to burn underwater? Remember when we talked about the "fire triangle" in class? For a fire to burn, three things have to be present: fuel, oxygen, and enough heat to get the fire started.
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Matthew Jackson
9/26/2017 12:40:32 pm
I wonder if there are more milky ways
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 01:54:01 pm
There are certainly lots more galaxies, Matthew. Scientists estimate there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and a very large percentage of them have a spiral shape like ours. Of course they wouldn't be called "Milky Way", just as another planet would not be called "Earth".
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Maha Bhatti
9/26/2017 12:50:25 pm
i wonder in the baby diapers the sodium polyacrylate is stored
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 01:55:20 pm
Maha, if you ask me at school, I can give you a baby diaper to cut apart, and you can see for yourself. I have quite a few left over because I use them for experiments.
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:03:37 pm
Sorry Mr. Biegun i have been so busy that i didn't really look at your reply and thanks! i also have diapers at my house because i have a babysister 9/26/2017 01:18:19 pm
Is it possible to live without ever being exposed to sun light?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 01:58:05 pm
I'm sure it is possible, but not a great idea. Sunlight shining on our skin helps our body produce vitamin D, which is important to our health. That's one reason people start to feel tired and ill after a long winter with little sunshine.
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Isabella Williams
9/26/2017 01:18:24 pm
I wnde how wind up toys work
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 02:00:35 pm
Hi Izzy,
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:04:48 pm
Hi Jayden,
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Marcus M
9/26/2017 01:19:30 pm
Why isn't rubber conductive?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:09:32 pm
Hi Marcus,
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Daniel childers
9/26/2017 01:20:29 pm
how do light switch wires work?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:12:52 pm
If you look at what I wrote to Marcus, just above, you will see that electricity moving through wires is like water flowing through a garden hose. Except instead of water flowing, it's electrons, which are the little particles on the outside of atoms, which all have a negative electrical charge.
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Annabella Treadway
9/26/2017 01:21:12 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was wondering what would happen if all of the planets disappeared (Except Earth)?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:14:57 pm
Hi Annabella,
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JAYDEN GOZHITA
9/26/2017 01:21:40 pm
I wonder when science was invented.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:18:26 pm
Science isn't really a "thing" that is invented by one person, Jayden. If you think about it, science just means asking questions about the world around us, like the questions you see on this web page. Every single person who asks a question like the ones you see here, is a scientist, even if that's not their "official" job.
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Rebecca Novak
9/26/2017 01:22:26 pm
Mr. Biegun i was wondering how computers work.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:23:48 pm
That's a pretty big question, Rebecca. At the most basic level, a computer is just a whole lot of tiny switches (like light switches) that can either be ON or OFF. That's all it is. Electricity flows through very tiny wires until it comes to switches, and if the switch is ON, the electricity keeps going. If the switch is OFF the electricity stops, or goes down a different path. When something operates by this electronic ON/OFF method, we call that "digital".
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madeleine stewart
9/26/2017 01:22:43 pm
I wonder how hot the sun is?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:27:27 pm
The Sun is different temperatures in different parts. For instance, the outer part, the surface, is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But the hottest part, at the very center, is about 27 MILLION degrees.
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Ne'vaeh Henderson
9/26/2017 01:23:58 pm
i wonder how the earth was made and how did it get it's name
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:33:31 pm
Hi Ne'vaeh,
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Dominique Robinson
9/26/2017 01:24:12 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun, I was wondering how people named states. Do they name it after themselves or someone they know? Do they just think of random things? Thanks Mr. Biegun!
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9/30/2017 04:44:58 pm
I wouldn't say any of the names are random. People name states and countries after many things, such as:
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Dominique Robinson
10/2/2017 08:18:08 pm
Thanks Mr. B!
Dominique Robinson
9/26/2017 01:25:08 pm
I wonder if there are still new land forming right now.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:52:55 pm
There certainly is! For one thing, anytime a volcano is erupting, you can say that it is creating new land. If the volcano is erupting lava near an ocean, like in Hawaii, it can actually make the land larger as the lava flows down to the shore, pours into the water, and turns hard. Some parts of the main island of Hawaii have grown quite a bit larger just since people have been living there.
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Dominique Robinson
10/2/2017 08:18:43 pm
Thank you Mr. Biegun!
Adam O'Deven
9/26/2017 01:26:29 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun. I was wondering...
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 04:59:50 pm
High in the atmosphere, just above where jet planes fly, there isa kind of oxygen called ozone. This is slightly different from the oxygen we breathe, because we breathe oxygen atoms that are attached to each other in "pairs" of atoms, to make a molecule called O2; while ozone is "triple" oxygen atoms, or O3.
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Ebony
9/26/2017 01:30:20 pm
I wonder how a lunar eclipse is made
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:07:06 pm
Do you know, Ebony, that there are two kinds of eclipses, Lunar and Solar?
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Makenna Nardi
9/26/2017 01:31:16 pm
why is the north poll called the north poll?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:14:53 pm
The words for the directions (north, south, east, west) can be different in different languages, of course, and it's hard to tell how people first came up with those words, just as we don't know how a lot of the oldest words started.
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warren marshall
9/26/2017 01:34:44 pm
who was the first scientist from michigan
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:19:02 pm
Hi Warren,
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Makenna Nardi
9/26/2017 01:34:50 pm
was there a blood moon on 9/24/17
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:23:47 pm
There really is no such thing as a blood moon. The full moon that is closest to the first day of fall is often called the Harvest Moon, just because that is around the time farmers would be harvesting their crops.
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josiah hollins
9/26/2017 01:34:57 pm
why cant we remember anything when we were first born
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:27:12 pm
Scientists have wondered a lot about this, Josiah. In fact, I just read an article last week, where some scientists studied this and they think that when a child is very young, and their brain is growing rapidly, the "memory" part just isn't working well enough yet to hold onto "long-term" memories.
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Montrell Muskeyvalley
9/26/2017 01:39:31 pm
what causes liter fluet or gasoline to burst in flames from fire
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:31:17 pm
You have to remember that fire is a chemical reaction with oxygen. Materials that have a lot of carbon and hydrogen in them usually react really well with oxygen.
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katrina
9/26/2017 01:41:02 pm
why do they call the milky way the milky way
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:34:32 pm
Hi Katrina,
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Renzo Ferrero
9/26/2017 02:08:18 pm
why is the world round and will it ever be flat?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:44:09 pm
The Earth may seem flat when you are walking around, but no planet could really be flat.
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Madison Stetzel
9/26/2017 02:11:35 pm
Hi, Mr. Biegun i wonder if a commet will ever hit earth soon?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 05:48:01 pm
As far as we know, Madison, there are no comets that are on a course where they would collide with Earth. Scientists are always watching for this, and whenever they find a new comet, they always watch its motion and calculate where it is heading.
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Joshua. M
9/26/2017 02:13:39 pm
I wonder how people evolved from monkeys
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:02:13 pm
Well, it's not really accurate to say we evolved from monkeys. That's not how a scientist would put it. It is more accurate to say that we are RELATED to all other life on Earth, which means we share ancestors with other species. We can easily tell this just by comparing our DNA to the DNA of other species.
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LUKE MARZOLF
9/26/2017 02:13:57 pm
is it possible to run at the speed of light (like the flash)
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:08:45 pm
Running at 186,000 miles per second? Nope. Sure, it would be fun to run 7 times around the Earth in the time it takes to say your name. But if you tried it, "Flash" would be a perfect name for you, because the friction of air against your body would burn you up so fast you would just be a flash of fire, vanishing instantly in a cloud of ashes drifting on the breeze . . .
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lexi selbig
9/26/2017 02:14:06 pm
hi mr biegun i was wonder how the sun moon and all the other planets stay in the air
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:12:25 pm
Well, Lexi, the Sun, Moon and other planets are not IN the air. The atmosphere of Earth only goes upward about 50 miles or so above the ground. The moon is 240,000 miles away in outer space. The Sun is 93 million miles away.
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Cody Heemsoth
9/26/2017 02:14:22 pm
Hi, Mr.Biegun. Is it possible to get the venom from a komodo dragon?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:15:01 pm
Oh, I'm sure it's possible, but you'd have to have some pretty strong motivation, wouldn't you?
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eric christoff
9/26/2017 02:14:46 pm
how do cats always land on their feet from any distance ?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:21:15 pm
I actually have read scientific articles about this. It is quite interesting how they do it. They have an extremely flexible backbone, and when falling they can quickly twist the back end of their body into the correct position, and then the front end just follows.
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julian karoumy
9/26/2017 02:15:36 pm
what will happen if a rocket ship went straight up
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:23:23 pm
Well, Julian, "straight up" is usually the direction they prefer to go. If it is going fast enough, it can get up to space, and perhaps orbit the Earth (that means going in circles around the Earth).
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Luca Pop
9/26/2017 02:15:53 pm
How hot is the sun and how fast is the speed of sound and why is it so slow and why is it so faint if i get farther away?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:27:56 pm
Hmm. How many questions is that, exactly, Luca?
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nicole schroeder
9/26/2017 02:16:03 pm
sure! what is the solar systems measurement compared to the galaxys?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 06:40:43 pm
Hi Nicole,
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Cortez Johnson
9/26/2017 02:16:30 pm
Hi Mr.biegun i wonder how can planes can carry all that weight
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 07:43:48 pm
Hi Cortez,
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cate
9/26/2017 02:16:41 pm
why are flames different colors
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 07:47:13 pm
The color of a flame is related to its temperature, and to the kind of fuel it is burning. For instance, alcohol burns with a pale blue flame. Things with lots of carbon, like wood or paper, burn with a yellow flame. Copper burns with a beautiful blue/green flame.
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Anish Jain
9/26/2017 02:17:38 pm
I wonder why all four of the terrestrial planets don't have rings while gas giants do have rings?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:02:48 pm
That is a very good question, Anish. As I think you know, all four of the gas giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings, even though only Saturn's rings are visible from Earth. The four terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, do not.
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Anish Jain
9/26/2017 02:18:34 pm
I wonder when a beta particle is separated how big is the explosion
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:08:48 pm
In a radioactive element, the nucleus of an atom occasionally shoots out a particle, and these are sometimes called beta particles. A single particle coming out of a single nucleus isn't going to make what you would call an explosion.
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victoria
9/26/2017 02:18:43 pm
I wonder if there is life in venus
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:12:24 pm
Hi Victoria,
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Nia'Sikoi Howard
9/26/2017 02:22:23 pm
I wonder if the world was upside down? What would it look like? :)
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:16:55 pm
Hi Nia,
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:20:41 pm
Aaron,
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Jazmyn McIntosh
9/26/2017 02:31:38 pm
What makes biolluminescent lights glow
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:28:22 pm
Animals that make their own light, like fireflies or the many glowing sea creatures, have the ability to mix chemicals inside their body in the same way that a glow stick works.
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9/26/2017 02:33:53 pm
I wonder if a plant could grow inside another plant.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:32:28 pm
Hmm. I've seen a weed growing out of a hole in a hollow tree. Does that count?
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Paige Inez
9/26/2017 08:31:46 pm
Hi Mr.Beigun,this question is for website bingo. It said to write you a question....So my question was, is there an animal that is totally the opposite of us?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:34:30 pm
Hmm. You would have to explain what "totally opposite" would be like. Have you thought about what you mean by this, Paige?
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9/26/2017 08:39:35 pm
My question is that if you go to the very side of the Earth would you see space?
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Dylan Nett
9/26/2017 08:41:29 pm
My question is that if you go to the side of the earth would you see space?
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Luca Pop
9/26/2017 09:58:01 pm
Hi Dylan well no. Because the earth is surrounded by a layer of atmosphere. But you can see space from your room at night because the atmosphere is darkened and you can see it better.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:38:01 pm
Hi Dylan,
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Andrew Song
9/26/2017 09:18:50 pm
What is sweat?
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Luca Pop
9/26/2017 09:55:15 pm
Sweat is accually your bodys oil. It also has a salty taste. But sweat comes um when your pores (which are small holes that open up) and your sweat comes up. the scientific name is diaphoresis. sweat is also created with sweat glands under the human skin or any skin of a mammal.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:39:10 pm
It is mostly just water with some salt in it. Your body pushes it out of the skin when you are hot, so that it evaporates and cools off your skin. (Sweat doesn't make you hot, it makes you cool!)
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Cody Heemsoth
9/27/2017 05:44:39 pm
Hey Mr.Biegun, what would happen if two neutrons collided?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:40:23 pm
Nothing at all, Cody, it happens all the time!
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Alivia S
9/27/2017 06:50:06 pm
Hey Mr Biegun, I was just wondering how come after a while of closing your eyes you see colors? For instance when I close my eyes for awhile I see purple or blue specks. Other times, I have seen red or orange.
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:45:08 pm
Hi Alivia! I hope 7th grade is treating you well!
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Makayla woznak
9/27/2017 08:20:56 pm
I wonder what is the moon made out of
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:48:43 pm
Well, it's not green cheese, like some people thought a long time ago.
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Doriyen gary-phillips
9/27/2017 08:29:02 pm
how would nuclerar bomb effect earths (plant growth natrual rescoures and people if they don't die)?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 08:57:35 pm
A single nuclear bomb would have very little affect on the WHOLE planet, and most living things wouldn't be affected. The world is a very big place, and thankfully, even the biggest bomb can't affect a very large area.
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Doriyen Gp.
9/27/2017 08:30:07 pm
who decided to name the planet after gods
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 09:01:17 pm
The names we use today were given by the Romans to honor their gods. Of course, other countries had their own names for the planets. Later, the countries that produced the most astronomers and scientists, were countries that were close to the Roman empire, so they used the same names.
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Sohan Ketireddy
9/28/2017 06:31:48 pm
When will humans go to mars?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 09:05:46 pm
Well, obviously nobody can really answer that question until it actually happens. NASA is planning to try to send someone to Mars in about 20-30 years, but they haven't yet worked out all the details about how that will happen.
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Ava Wiliams
9/28/2017 09:48:52 pm
I wonder how the world was made?
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Mr. Biegun
9/30/2017 09:07:20 pm
Hi Ava,
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Andrew Song
10/1/2017 07:58:00 pm
How is electricity made or what elements (if it is) do you need to make electricity?
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Mr. Biegun
10/2/2017 07:57:16 pm
Electricity is a stream of electrons moving from one place to another. You don't need one particular element, but electrons move easily in metal, so we usually use wires made of a metal like copper or aluminum to carry the flow of electrons.
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cate pastori
10/1/2017 08:31:55 pm
why is fire hot. why dose friction make heat???
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Mr. Biegun
10/2/2017 08:05:22 pm
Hmm. Why is fire hot? Do you remember when we talked about the "fire triangle" in school? In order to have fire, there have to be three things: fuel, oxygen, and heat.
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Reisha Taragaturi
10/4/2017 08:13:37 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun! My mom asked me a question today and I said I would ask you. Her question was what is acid? How does acid work and why was it created? Thanks!
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Mr. Biegun
10/7/2017 05:19:07 pm
Hi Reisha,
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Andrew Song
10/8/2017 08:58:00 pm
Mr.Biegun, why is the sun yellow-orange instade of any other color?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 05:38:43 pm
Stars are different colors because of their temperature, and also the elements they contain. The hottest stars are white or blue. The coolest ones are red or orange (although they are still plenty hot enough to burn you up if you get too close!)
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Taiya williams
10/12/2017 07:18:32 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun ,i was wondering did Archimedes ever figure out pie??
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 05:57:54 pm
Hi, Taiya. I believe you mean "pi", which is the special and fascinating number Archimedes was trying to figure out. (Although he may have been interested in pie as well. Personally I like apple pie best.)
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 09:41:39 pm
are dollar bills really made out of paper?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:01:02 pm
Yes, Maha, they certainly are made of paper. But a special recipe is used for making the paper, so that it's hard for anyone to copy and make fake money.
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Maha Bhatti
10/15/2017 09:45:22 pm
Really Mr Biegun?!!!! Thanks!!!
Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:24:34 pm
My brother loves experementing with plants and we grew an apple tree that is now the same age as my baby sister one and half years old and the squirrel was taking a stroll along the way he came to our tree and chewed some of the bottom part of the tree off. so my brother was wondering why do squirrels prefer to strip apple tree bark? Do you think the tree will still grow even if it was damaged by the squirrels?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:05:11 pm
Obviously there was something tasty in the bark, or perhaps the squirrel was trying to lick the sweet sap underneath.
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:36:37 pm
how many minutes it would take if a person couldn't breath for them to uh um......................die.
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:12:16 pm
I have always heard that under normal conditions, a person can go about 6 minutes without air before permanent brain damage starts to occur, and death soon after. That's why in an emergency someone needs to do CPR to try to get the person breathing again within a few minutes.
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:43:13 pm
why do people think that if your parents are short then you will be short or if your parents are tall then you will grow tall? also if my mom is sort then can i get taller then her?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:17:42 pm
A person's height is definitely partly genetic, but it is more complicated than just the genes. If you have two short parents, yes, you will be more likely to be short. But your parents also carry genes from their own parents and grandparents, and you might get some "taller" genes from them.
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:46:33 pm
why do finger nails and toe nails get dirty?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:20:47 pm
Is that a trick question? They have lots of little cracks for dirt to hide . . . and we tend to put our fingers and toes in dirty places! Especially if you run around with no shoes on!
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Maha Bhatti
10/14/2017 10:51:08 pm
By the way sorry i asked you so many questions i guess i am full of curiosity! too much!
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:40:09 pm
Don't apologize, Maha- questions are always good if they are things you really wonder about. That's why I made this page on my website. There is NO such thing as being too curious! It just shows that your brain is working, and that's ALWAYS a good thing!
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Maha Bhatti
10/15/2017 09:54:20 pm
Thanks Mr Biegun you are the best!
Dominique Robinson
10/14/2017 11:58:16 pm
While I was on vacation there were lots of mountains. I am wondering why my ears get clogged every time we drive by mountains?
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Mr. Biegun
10/15/2017 06:48:06 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Dominique Robinson
10/16/2017 07:07:49 pm
I wonder what the meaning of myths are for. Is it just someone guessing an an answer to something?
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Mr. Biegun
10/22/2017 08:34:43 pm
There are lots of different things that can be called myths. If you're talking about the kinds of myths such as ancient stories (like Greek mythology), we might call those "classic myths". Then there are the myths that modern people often believe, such as the kinds of things the "Mythbusters" like to test.
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Dominique Robinson
10/16/2017 07:17:29 pm
Just out of curiosity, I am wondering who invented the internet?
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Maha Bhatti
10/16/2017 09:08:46 pm
Hi Mr Biegun i was wondering what is the difference between when you study one week before a test and only study that on day, and when you study the day before a test and study more than that week before.Will the results most likely be different? What's your opinion?
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 11:10:11 am
Hi Maha,
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Rachel schmitt
10/17/2017 08:26:13 pm
Why do dogs throw up quickly and humans throw up slowly?
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 11:00:49 am
Hi Rachel. Not sure what you mean by quickly and slowly . . . But you might consider the purpose of throwing up: to get something harmful out of your digestive system. Dogs are probably pretty likely to eat dangerous stuff (garbage, spoiled meat, etc) so it would be important for their body to quickly get rid of anything harmful. Humans have a greater ability to make intelligent decisions about what we consume, so perhaps our “throw up” reaction is more delayed.
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nicole schroeder
10/17/2017 11:06:05 pm
I was in the car with my uncle Ron and we started to observe the clouds. I started to wonder why some clouds are higher of the ground than others. is it the weight of the cloud? what causes clouds to sink to earth as fog? i have some hypotheses, but I wanted to as you.
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 11:28:18 am
Hi Nicole,
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Nicole Schroeder
12/3/2017 08:27:29 pm
thats really cool! i love how God made wispie clouds!
Maha Bhatti
10/18/2017 04:26:35 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun i was wondering what are some of the causes that make us so sleepy because i sleep late all the time and i am actually really tired of that. I would also like to ask how i could make myself go to sleep.
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 12:33:54 pm
It’s very common to have issues with falling asleep and waking up. I struggle with that myself, especially when I’m thinking about school a lot.
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sabrina palmer
10/18/2017 08:12:20 pm
when is the earth going to end? how will the end?
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 12:46:35 pm
Hi Sabrina,
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Maha Bhatti
10/18/2017 09:31:16 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun
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Mr. Biegun
10/26/2017 12:51:31 pm
I’m sure it depends on how comlex the mental activity is. If your spelling work is pretty simple, you don’t need to give it full attention. When you are reading a book, I’m sure it takes a great deal of attention, especially if it’s challenging to read.
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Sabrina palmer
10/19/2017 03:33:47 pm
Why does hair turn white/gray? Why does some hair turn white and some turn gray?
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Mr. Biegun
10/28/2017 01:48:27 pm
Hi Sabrina,
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nicole schroeder
10/20/2017 07:47:34 pm
Hi Mr. B!
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Mr. Biegun
10/28/2017 02:14:49 pm
Hi Nicole. Caffeine is a molecule (a cluster of atoms) that is produced by a few types of plants in South America and south-east Asia. These plants include the tea plant, coffee beans, cola nut, cacao (chocolate) and a few others.
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nicole schroeder
12/3/2017 08:31:56 pm
Thanks Mr. Biegun!
Maha Bhatti
10/20/2017 07:49:16 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, what's up?
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Mr. Biegun
10/28/2017 02:27:02 pm
Hi Maha. "What's up"? Apparently, your hair! ha ha
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Maha Bhatti
10/28/2017 03:09:02 pm
Good one Mr Biegun! and Thanks
Alivia
10/22/2017 07:39:12 pm
I was listening to some of my favorite songs just now and it got me thinking. How come people can memorize a whole song but they might have trouble remembering test material. Or possibly they cant remember simple things like what they the day before perfectly, but they know the hardest parts of songs. Thanks, Alivia
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Mr. Biegun
10/28/2017 02:36:08 pm
Hi Alivia,
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Luca Pop
10/28/2017 11:27:28 am
I wonder you know trees in the fall have no leaves do those trees produce oxygen in the fall?
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Mr. Biegun
10/28/2017 02:39:24 pm
Hi Luca,
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Maha Bhatti
10/28/2017 03:13:42 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 10:00:48 am
Hi Maha,
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Maha Bhatti
10/28/2017 03:25:33 pm
Hullo Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 01:43:44 pm
Certainly we forget much of what we learn, and that's probably a good thing, because if you remembered every single thing your brain would be awfully crowded, wouldn't it? So your brain naturally "drops" the things that seem less important. Do you really need to remember this year's locker combination when you are 25? Do you need to remember what you had for breakfast on Nov. 5, 2012?
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Maha Bhatti
10/30/2017 03:39:18 pm
What makes us memorize things so well like songs and not so well when it comes to tests-definitions- ?Also did i tell you that I can memorize any numbers that are like phone numbers, passwords etc. (also i hope my brother doesn't read this but i know his social security).
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 01:48:24 pm
If you scroll up a bit and see my answer to Alivia, she asked something similar.
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Maha Bhatti
11/9/2017 04:56:23 pm
Thanks! Well you might not remember other people's names but i'm going to make sure you remember mine
Dominique Robinson
10/30/2017 08:39:50 pm
Why does fog come? Is it just a cloud that fell out of the sky? If so, how does it fall out of the sky?
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 01:51:29 pm
No, it's not a cloud that fell from the sky, but it IS the same thing as a cloud: it is water particles that got cooled off, so they clumped together (condensed) to become little droplets of water floating in the air.
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montrell
10/31/2017 03:14:19 pm
what will happen if the sun exploded would we die
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 01:54:14 pm
Yes, we would certainly die, either from the explosion itself, or later from extreme cold since there is no more Sun to warm the Earth.
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Reisha Taragaturi
11/4/2017 10:11:03 am
Hi Mr.Biegun! Why does skin become dry even though you put lotion on it? Thanks!
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Mr. Biegun
11/5/2017 02:01:00 pm
Keep in mind that not all lotions are the same, so it may depend on the ingredients. But in general, lotions are supposed to add some moisture to your skin, or help the moisture stay in your skin.
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Maha Bhatti
11/9/2017 05:04:28 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun How are you ( there is no way i'm saying "What's Up" because apparently people take that way too seriously!
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Mr. Biegun
11/12/2017 12:51:41 pm
The invention of a "vaccine" shot is one of the most amazing scientific discoveries ever, Maha! They have saved many millions of lives.
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Maha Bhatti
11/12/2017 06:32:00 pm
Thanks again!
Maha Bhatti
11/9/2017 07:37:15 pm
Hi Mr Biegun my nephew is at my house right now and i was showing him your website. Ayaan wanted to ask who made the idea of birthdays?(he is a first grader so i don't know what he is talking about)
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Mr. Biegun
11/12/2017 12:56:42 pm
Hi Maha (and Ayaan),
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Maha Bhatti
11/10/2017 04:48:28 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/12/2017 01:01:25 pm
Here you have me stumped, Maha. I've heard of things like that, but I have no idea if it makes a difference, or why.
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Kaushik Vellore 1st Hour
11/12/2017 02:05:14 pm
Why is the sky blue???
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2017 12:22:37 pm
Hi Kaushik,
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Cody
11/12/2017 03:56:52 pm
Hi, Mr.Beigun.
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2017 12:31:53 pm
Hi Cody,
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Kaitlynn Garza-Hernandez
11/14/2017 08:41:23 pm
I wonder how many craters the moon has?
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2017 08:00:29 pm
I'm sure there are thousands, but I doubt anyone has counted, because some are so small you wouldn't even see them unless you are standing on the moon's surface. Every time a piece of rock from space falls to the moon's surface, it would make a crater. That still happens, so there are more craters today than there were last year!
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Dominique Robinson
11/18/2017 10:47:24 am
Hello Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/19/2017 08:15:02 pm
Nobody could know the answer to this for sure, because it would probably have been before people knew how to write (what we call "prehistoric" times). This is similar to asking who built the first fire, or who domesticated the first dog.
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Maha Bhatti
11/21/2017 08:20:04 pm
Aleena wants to ask what glass is made out of?
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Mr. Biegun
12/2/2017 05:21:39 pm
Glass is made out of sand that is melted, then cooled off until it becomes clear and hard. It is made mostly of the elements silicon and oxygen, but other elements can be added in certain ways to change the properties, such as making the glass flexible, or harder to break.
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Maha Bhatti
12/2/2017 05:37:28 pm
I knew that! I think so anyway
Maha Bhatti
11/21/2017 08:21:40 pm
I wonder what happens to plastic when heated in microwave? Now I do have some guesses of what might happen.
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Mr. Biegun
12/2/2017 05:23:56 pm
Microwaves normally only affect water molecules, so technically if the material has no water, it doesn't heat up.
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Maha Bhatti
12/2/2017 05:36:36 pm
Thanks Mr. Biegun! that has happened to my older sister before. she accidentally heated up bread in plastic. and we didn't eat afterwards because it looked all soft and melty
Maha Bhatti
11/21/2017 08:24:13 pm
I wonder how the contact lenses can help you see better?
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Mr. Biegun
12/2/2017 05:29:25 pm
A lens is an object made out of a transparent material (like glass or plastic), which is designed to bend light waves in order to change the focus of an image.
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Maha Bhatti
12/2/2017 05:40:10 pm
Thanks Mr. Biegun, i was asking because i think i might need glasses but i really do not want them
Maha Bhatti
11/21/2017 08:29:32 pm
Mr. Biegun, would you say that doctors kind of are like teachers? Also i know i am on the roll tonight. Science is literary what is on my mind right now. plus there are so many people here right now that are making me ask and get more curious.
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Mr. Biegun
12/2/2017 05:35:31 pm
Sure, Maha, I can see a similarity between doctors and teachers. They both are interested in helping other people to have a better life. Of course in different ways you could compare teachers to other occupations also, such as police, personal trainers, coaches, psychologists, and many others.
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Mr. Biegun
12/2/2017 05:37:59 pm
Hi Ava,
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Maha Bhatti
12/2/2017 05:47:26 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun i was wondering since i do not want glasses if there is any possible way to improve my eyesight also is it true that carrots are good for your eyesight
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Mr. Biegun
12/3/2017 03:18:46 pm
Carrots do not help you see better, if that's what you mean. But carrots do have some valuable vitamins, so that can help overall health. During World War II, the British government started a rumor that eating carrots helped their pilots see better at night. The purpose of the rumor was to mislead their enemies (Germany) to hide the fact that Britain had developed some secret night-vision technology.
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Anish Jain
12/3/2017 11:29:58 am
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was reading a book and it was talking about polar bonds, and how one side of a bond is unequally shared, so one side is more negative than the other. How is this possible?
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Mr. Biegun
12/3/2017 03:23:55 pm
Hi Anish,
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Ayah Sulaiman
12/7/2017 06:29:10 am
Hi Mr Biegun, when i brush my teeth I notice that when my toothpaste, Colgate Cavity Protection, falls in the sink the water like goes in a circle around it but it doesn't touch it. It made me think about what we learned in class with the penicillin.
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Mr. Biegun
12/16/2017 02:46:00 pm
Hi Ayah,
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Chloe Ward
12/7/2017 08:43:55 am
What are teeth made of?
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Reisha Taragaturi
12/7/2017 09:34:45 pm
Teeth are just bones that are inside your mouth!
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Mr. Biegun
12/16/2017 02:58:59 pm
Hi Chloe,
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Reisha Taragaturi
12/7/2017 09:33:39 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun! Since its the Christmas season, I was decorating my Christmas tree with my family, and my mom and I got out the lights from the basement. When we turned them on, some of the lights were dead, every time we shook the lights really hard that section of lights would flicker on and off. Is that a loose connection or something else? (sorry for the long "paragraph")
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Mr. Biegun
12/7/2017 09:57:36 pm
Well, Reisha, i do have some experience in that area- I’m one of those nutty people that kind of goes overboard with Christmas lights. I put mine up on the roof 3 weeks ago.
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lizzie berta
12/12/2017 04:04:43 pm
hi i was wondering how to do this home work the food chains practice and i was also wondering how many points it was
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Reisha Taragaturi
12/16/2017 12:01:47 pm
Hi M.Biegun! Today I shoveled the driveway with my dad and sister, and I was wearing really thick gloves when I shoveled. But when I came inside and took the gloves off, the tips of my fingers were really cold, then they started to itch inside and it hurt. What's making my fingers to hurt so much? Thanks!
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Mr. Biegun
12/16/2017 03:06:09 pm
You just had a little bit of frostbite, which is not uncommon on a cold day like it was today, even when you wear gloves.
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Dominique Robinson
12/18/2017 01:55:02 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun, I am wondering who invented the internet? What was the purpose of it?
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Mr. Biegun
12/23/2017 09:39:15 pm
The very beginnings of the internet were as far back as the 1960's, about 50 years ago, when early computers could only communicate with other computers they were connected to in the same building. Scientists at different universities wanted to find ways to let their computers communicate with each other over long distances using phone lines.
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Diego Bermudez
12/19/2017 04:05:25 pm
Hi, Mr. Beigun
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 03:40:43 pm
Hi Diego,
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Dylan
12/20/2017 09:21:22 am
I wonder if you went to the side of the earth, or the bottom, would you see space?
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 03:53:28 pm
Hi Dylan,
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Cristan Crockett
12/20/2017 12:36:05 pm
what would happen if an atom were to get ripped into 2
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 03:59:43 pm
Hi Tristan. If you know a little about atoms, you know that an atom is a cluster of protons and neutrons (which make up the nucleus), surrounded by a cloud of rapidly orbiting electrons.
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Rebecca Novak
12/20/2017 01:40:43 pm
Why does the second rainbow in a double rainbow upside down?
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:14:29 pm
A rainbow happens when sunlight goes into each raindrop (which is round), bounces off the back of the raindrop, and goes back out the front the raindrop at a slightly different angle.
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Rebecca
2/6/2018 04:14:54 pm
thankyou Mr Biegun
cody heemsoth
12/20/2017 02:36:16 pm
why is it that when you touch dry ice with out gloves on why does it cause frost bite?
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:17:15 pm
Dry ice is carbon dioxide that has been frozen solid. It has a temperature of about -110°F. That is so cold that it only takes a second or two of contact to freeze the water in your skin cells. When cells freeze, that is what we call frostbite.
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Brigitte Chan and Nicole Schroeder
12/20/2017 10:22:41 pm
Hi Mr. B!
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:20:58 pm
The freezing point of water is normally at 32°F. However, there are several things that can interrupt the freezing process. In a pond like you noticed, it is possible that there is a current in one part of the pond, for instance if there is a stream coming in, or a spring pushing water up from the bottom.
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Luca Pop
12/21/2017 06:38:48 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun i was wondering is there anything more high pitched than kilohertz i was thinking nanohertz or decohertz but i dont know if those are a thing. I WANT TO KNOW. thx
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:45:34 pm
The highest range of human hearing is considered to be about 20 kHz (20,000 hertz) . . . although sometimes in our presbycusis experiment we are able to find young children who apparently can hear sounds up to about 22 kHz.
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Anish Jain
12/22/2017 04:16:59 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I was wondering you know how some places that have water have salt in them like an ocean, but some are only fresh like rivers. So for the salty ones like oceans, did man intentionally put the slat in there or was it just created by nature. Thanks
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:51:10 pm
Salt is a mineral that is in the rocks and soil of the Earth. When rocks and soil are broken down and carried away by flowing water (erosion), the salt dissolves in the water and ends up being carried to streams or rivers, which eventually flow into the ocean.
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Dominique Robinson
12/22/2017 04:35:11 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun, I see in movies where people lick ice and their tongue immediately freezes to the ice, would this actually happen?
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Mr. Biegun
12/24/2017 04:57:55 pm
Sure, that can happen! Here's an example: sometimes, right after I wash my hands, I reaching the freezer to grab a handful of ice, and the ice cubes stick to my fingers.
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Anish Jain
1/3/2018 04:08:38 pm
In science class we talked about two ways of finding volume: doing L*W*H, or finding through the displacement of a graduated cylinder. I was reading this science book, and it was talking about finding Density by using mass/ volume. If we changed up this equation then volume would equal mass/ density. Does that mean that there are many ways to find volume? Are there more ways to finding volume than just these three ways? Another example is power. For power you could do work/ time. But also you could do power equals, electric current (amperes) multiplied by voltage (volts). Why for finding the same variable, there are so many different equations? Thanks.
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nicole schroeder
1/7/2018 07:49:15 pm
is presbycusis and general hearing loss the same thing? why?
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Anish Jain
1/8/2018 06:33:20 pm
If you search up the definition of presbycusis up, the definition is age-related hearing loss. So if you mean general hearing loss, are you talking about age related? If you are then yes presbycusis and general hearing loss are the same thing. But if you mean like getting deaf, then no presbycusis is not the same thing because the disease for deafness is different than the disease of presbycusis.
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Mr. Biegun
1/15/2018 12:07:22 pm
Hi Nicole,
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Anish Jain
1/8/2018 06:28:19 pm
In science class that there are two ways of finding volume: Doing L*W*H, or using a graduated cylinder for irregular objects. I was reading in a book, about density, and the formula for finding density was D=M/V. Since there is volume in that equation, couldn't we just switch it around and make V=M/V? Also, power can be solved by doing work over time. Also work can be found by using the formula P=IV, using P as in power, I as in electric current (amperes), and V as in Voltage (volts.) Does that mean there are more ways to solving variables, like volume, than those two ways?
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Mr. Biegun
1/15/2018 12:17:25 pm
Hi Anish,
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Jazmyn McIntosh
1/9/2018 09:12:05 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun. So when stars collapse, they go supernova, and collapse under their own pressure. When do you think the sun, as a star in the center of the galaxy, when do you think it will go supernova?
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Mr. Biegun
1/15/2018 12:31:03 pm
Hi Jazmyn,
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Ava Palm
1/10/2018 11:01:40 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun i was wondering i have been having visions lately about things that have happened but i dont think its dejavue because when i was in fourth grade i saw and experienced something that really happened in fifth grade and its been happening a lot lately do you think you can explain what it is? Remember ive been experiencing these things and that doesnt happen in dejavue so i really want to know what it is if you can explain it! Thanks from your inspired student Ava.
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Mr. Biegun
1/15/2018 12:35:56 pm
Hi Ava,
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Alivia S
1/11/2018 07:32:38 pm
My friend and I dream of becoming marine biologists when we grow up. I've been told that people could see me achieve my dreams in the future if I work for it. So my question is what is the chance that we (or I) will actually achieve becoming a marine biologist? (My favorite type of scientist)
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Mr. Biegun
1/15/2018 12:44:34 pm
Hi Alivia,
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lizzie berta
1/15/2018 03:23:35 pm
i wonder 'how plants are made
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Mr. Biegun
1/20/2018 05:05:23 pm
Hi Lizzie,
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Jazmyn McIntosh
1/16/2018 05:53:55 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
1/20/2018 05:13:34 pm
That's a great word, isn't it, Jazmyn? Spaghettification. I just love saying it!
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joshua muma
1/21/2018 01:27:28 pm
what is the most toxic subtance known to man(or women)
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Mr. Biegun
1/24/2018 05:09:12 pm
I did a quick search and found several websites that refer to these as the top 5 toxins:
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Dominique Robinson
1/22/2018 04:35:45 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun I was wondering how many seconds I would have been alive so I looked on this site: http://www.scorpio-site.co.uk/age.htm BUT it didn't say anything about seconds. So I am wondering how many seconds has an average sixth grader lived?
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Mr. Biegun
1/24/2018 05:15:07 pm
This is fun for those of us who like math!
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Maha Bhatti
1/22/2018 08:46:41 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun you know when you turn on the faucet water from cold to hot or hot to cold and pour it in a glass it has this weird white stuff in it that goes away after a while and becomes clear again, kind of like white powder. Why does it do that???
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Mr. Biegun
1/24/2018 05:17:13 pm
That probably has nothing to do with temperature, Maha. You are just seeing air bubbles in the water. It happens all the time with my sinks at school, but doesn't usually happen so much at home. The bubbles float to the surface and the water becomes clear in about half a minute.
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Qijia Zhou
1/23/2018 08:13:44 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
1/24/2018 05:25:11 pm
Hi Jiajia! I hope you are doing well!
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nicole schroeder
1/24/2018 04:43:32 pm
Hi!
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Mr. Biegun
1/24/2018 05:35:30 pm
Since oxygen is element 8 on the periodic table, it has 8 protons in every atom. There are also 8 neutrons, which act as glue to hold the nucleus together against the repelling positively-charged protons.
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Julian
1/24/2018 05:17:28 pm
What happens when aregone has alot of presure in kelvin degrees
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:04:40 pm
Pressure is measured in "pounds per square inch". Degrees (Kelvin) measure temperature. So you are talking about two different things.
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Luca pop
1/25/2018 03:16:57 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun this relates to my previous question why does it also look like your legs are sticking out a bit.
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:09:19 pm
As I showed you in class, most people, when they jump, do three things: bend their knees, point their toes at the floor, and lift their arms high.
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Luca Pop
1/25/2018 03:26:33 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun you know how black holes collapse inward but is there an opposite like a white hole that collapses outward?
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:10:46 pm
Collapsing inward is called "implosion". The largest stars do this and become a black hole. The opposite of implosion is "explosion", so what you are describing would be called a "supernova", not a white hole.
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Rebecca Novak
1/25/2018 05:11:21 pm
Hi Mr Biegun
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:14:16 pm
Rainbows are seen when sunlight enters raindrops, hits the back of the raindrop, and bounces back out at an angle, so that the light is spread out the way a prism spreads out light into a spectrum.
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josiah hollins
1/29/2018 04:34:07 pm
can you really float
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:11:45 pm
Sure, Josiah- and so can you! Scroll up a bit and you can read my answer about this for Luca.
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Dominique Robinson
1/31/2018 06:23:44 pm
I was rewatching the Honda Cog video and started to wonder how the wheels rolled up the ramp by themselves. I know that something pushed it, but when you watch the first tire push the second tire it seems like maybe someone pushed it up the ramp since only half of the tire was shown on the clip where it rolled up.
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Mr. Biegun
2/1/2018 05:16:40 pm
Good observing, Dominique! A few other people noticed this as well. The tires each had a heavy piece of lead attached on the back side, balanced near the top. When each tire would get "bumped" and turn forward, the lead made the wheel roll forward a little extra.
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Marcus Miracle
2/2/2018 09:50:41 am
how does light travel to earth if sound cant travel to earth?
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Mr. Biegun
2/2/2018 09:28:56 pm
Hi Marcus. Even though Light and Sound both travel as waves, they are OPPOSITE in this way: Sound only travels through MATTER. And the more matter the better! In other words, sound travels slowest in a gas, like air. It travels faster in a liquid, like water, where the atoms are closer together. And sound travels fastest through a solid. (Try putting your ear against a table, then tap the table with a fingernail and see how well you hear it.)
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Paige Inez
2/4/2018 10:41:42 am
Dear Mr.Biegun, my question is, you know how you said that if you touch a pencil your not actually touching a pencil because all the atoms are moving away, like how a magnet moves away from each other. Well what if I had a small pencil and I covered it with both of my hands, what would happen then, because there's no where for the atoms to move. So then would I be touching the pencil?
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Mr. Biegun
2/4/2018 10:49:08 am
Hi Paige,
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josiah hollins
2/4/2018 03:08:35 pm
what makes pop lose taste when you shake it
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Mr. Biegun
2/9/2018 01:27:18 pm
Hi Josiah,
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josiah hollins
2/6/2018 07:43:44 pm
HI
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Mr. Biegun
2/9/2018 01:30:30 pm
Generators come in many different sizes. You can buy a generator that is designed to provide electricity for one house. Those generators are small enough to carry home in the trunk of your car.
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Rishee Sreenivasan
2/7/2018 04:46:06 pm
I heard that energy has no weight, but still causes an affect, now I am not talking about feeling sand reactions of the mind but rather the energy that causes effect such as light, sound, heat, etc. How does energy actually exist if it has no mass and doesn't take up any space, and how does it get the energy to actually do something? Also, if it does have no weight, than why is there even some kind of speed limit as Einstein stated (C or speed of light), can't it just travel at whatever speed of it's desire?
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Mr. Biegun
2/9/2018 02:24:36 pm
Hi Rishee- nice to hear from you again!
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josiah hollins
2/11/2018 12:30:34 am
what are eyes made of
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Mr. Biegun
2/14/2018 07:06:21 pm
Eyes are an organ of your body, Josiah. That means they are made from molecules that your body produces from the food you eat. You can easily find a diagram that shows the parts of an eye, and learn about things like the retina, the cornea, the iris and the lens.
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Jazmyn McIntosh
2/14/2018 05:54:22 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
2/14/2018 07:12:08 pm
Hi Jazmyn. Neutron stars are really cool. They are what is left over after a supernova (when a star explodes). They can have an incredible amount of mass packed into a sphere no bigger than a city like Rochester. And they rotate unbelievably fast. Imagine a ball the size of a city spinning 7 times in one second!
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josiahhollins
2/15/2018 05:20:50 pm
what are black holes made of
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Luca Pop
2/16/2018 02:34:14 pm
Hi Josiah black holes occur when a star implodes or collapses inwards. When that happens it sucks everything in its range. Not even LIGHT can escape. We have a black hole in the center of the milky way galaxy. Don't worry it wont suck us up we are out of its range.
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josiahhollins
2/20/2018 05:15:43 pm
real funny
Rebecca Novak
2/16/2018 01:40:30 pm
Mr Biegun why do stars explode when they reach the end of their life? Also are black holes caused by exploding stars?
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Rebecca Novak
2/18/2018 09:47:02 am
well ok that answers me second question.
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Rebecca Novak
2/18/2018 09:50:32 am
HI Mr.B i was wondering if we could see infrared would it be a bright red or a different color?
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Mr. Biegun
2/22/2018 09:30:49 am
That's a hard question to answer, Rebecca. How do you imagine a color that you've never seen? For example, imagine someone who can only see red and green colors. How would you describe for them the color blue? You could could say "it's the color of the sky". But maybe they only see the sky as shades of gray.
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Luca pop
2/20/2018 07:41:44 am
I know we did send off signals to distant planets but have ever received any. If so does that mean there is life on other planets?
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Mr. Biegun
2/22/2018 09:52:21 am
Hi Luca,
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josiahhollins
2/21/2018 08:44:00 pm
how many atoms are in a tv
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Mr. Biegun
2/22/2018 09:58:11 am
You didn't say how big the TV is. Can you figure out why that matters, Josiah?
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josiahhollins
2/22/2018 01:52:47 pm
how much matter does a black hole consume
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:16:50 am
A black hole consumes ALL matter that comes within its gravitational pull. But only if things get close enough. For instance, if the Sun turned into a black hole tomorrow, it would have the same mass and gravity that it has now, just packed into a much smaller space (maybe the size of a basketball!) And Earth would continue to orbit the Sun just as it does today.
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Alivia S
2/23/2018 08:45:53 pm
Hello. When kids draw suns, they often put lines to represent rays. When I see brightish lights, I see lines similar to that, bit in larger numbers. Is that normal
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:19:04 am
Hi Alivia,
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Rebecca Novak
2/24/2018 04:34:15 pm
Hi Mr.B i was hoping you could answer my question above the question i asked about the color of inferred , why do stars explode when they reach the end of their life.
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:31:26 am
Hi Rebecca,
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Nicole Schroeder
2/26/2018 07:40:32 pm
What would happen if you put a foam pillow in a room with no oxygen? Would it not puff up with no air to fill it's spongey air holes?
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:35:06 am
Interesting "thought experiment", Nicole! If the pillow was flattened before it went in the room (all the air squeezed out), than it could NOT puff up since there is no air to come into the holes.
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Julian
2/27/2018 09:47:23 am
What happens when liquid nitrogen is heated up?
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:36:51 am
Actually, Julian, that's exactly what you were seeing when I had it in the classroom. When you heat it up, by pouring it into a room temperature container, the nitrogen boils and rapidly turns into nitrogen gas- so it becomes part of the air we breathe.
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Julian K
2/27/2018 09:48:16 am
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:37:57 am
If it happens at the ocean bottom, it creates a really cool kind of lava called "pillow lava". I will show you some videos soon that show what it looks like when lava goes into water. There is a lot of steam!
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Dominique Robinson
2/28/2018 07:32:47 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2018 11:58:40 am
Hi Dominique,
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josiahhollins
3/5/2018 04:42:46 pm
if the earth had lots of energy would it blow up
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Julian karoumy
3/8/2018 09:45:48 am
What happens if India collides with Africa will it cause a earth quake.
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2018 06:24:15 pm
Well, Julian, India is not going to collide with Africa any time soon, since it is heading the opposite way and is colliding with Asia. And yes, it does cause big earthquakes every once in awhile as the continents continue to shift and collide. In 2015 an earthquake in that part of the world killed about 9,000 people.
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josiahhollins
3/12/2018 04:10:28 pm
is it possible to transfer earths energy to the sun
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2018 06:26:24 pm
That would be like transferring "your" water to the ocean by spitting into the waves. I'm not sure what kind of "earth energy" you are thinking of, Josiah. But even if the entire Earth fell into the Sun, it wouldn't have any noticeable effect since the Sun is about a million times as big.
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Rebecca Novak
3/13/2018 07:47:16 pm
Mr. B where do atrophysical neutrinons come from.
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2018 06:30:23 pm
Hi Rebecca,
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Maha Bhatti
3/18/2018 02:31:07 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Reisha Taragaturi
3/19/2018 09:12:47 pm
I would turn all three switches on and hope for the best :) :) :)
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Matthew Lloyd
3/20/2018 08:38:16 pm
That’s what I would do
Mr. Biegun
4/3/2018 06:36:30 pm
Well, Maha, I've given it a lot of thought, but you have me stumped. And I'm not going to cheat by searching for this one online. You'll have to tell me. I hope it's a good answer!
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Taiya
3/28/2018 09:33:39 am
hey Mr. Biegun remember me ? I miss your experiments my new school is terrible . can you tell the fourth hour class i miss them
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2018 06:38:17 pm
Hi Taiya,
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Taiya
4/9/2018 09:42:51 am
I'm going to Crescent Academy now . I hope the rest of your school year is good as well.
Anish Jain
4/18/2018 07:14:45 pm
Hi, Mr. Biegun
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Mr. Biegun
4/20/2018 09:11:46 pm
I'm not sure about that, Anish. I'm no expert on stages of a star, but I know you should find the answers by studying the well-known Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, which is a visual chart of how stars evolve. And I know that the answer depends on how massive the star is to begin with. The most common type is a "dwarf star" like the Sun, but there are other types that are much larger.
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Anish Jain
4/19/2018 09:26:16 pm
Why on the sun, does it rotate faster on its equator which only takes 25 days to complete a rotation, but near the poles, it takes 35 days to rotate on its poles? Why is it different than the Earth's rotation where everything rotates together?
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Mr. Biegun
4/20/2018 09:13:53 pm
Keep in mind that the Sun is not a solid like the Earth. It is made of gas (really, plasma) so it doesn't have to all turn as one unit the way the Earth does. I looked around a little and scientists believe the different rotation is caused by convection of heat inside the Sun.
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Fiona Hamer
4/23/2018 08:07:19 pm
How is it that when we have our eyes closed, we can still see a difference in lighting? For example, I'm in my room, my eyes are closed, the lights are off. My sister walks in and turns on the light. How am I able to tell the difference?
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Mr. Biegun
4/23/2018 08:50:44 pm
First of all, I think that is rather rude of Quincy, isn't it? ;-)
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Alivia S
4/29/2018 07:04:10 pm
Hey Mr. B!
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Mr. Biegun
6/27/2018 12:30:45 pm
Hi Alivia,
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josiahhollins
5/3/2018 09:11:25 pm
why does the waterfall taste like blood. And what are our brains made of.
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Mr. Biegun
6/27/2018 12:38:05 pm
Hi Josiah,
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Rachel Schmitt
6/23/2018 11:59:36 am
If you breathed Pier oxygen, would you exhale?
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Mr. Biegun
6/27/2018 01:08:35 pm
Hi Rachel,
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Luca Pop
7/30/2018 02:46:58 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I wonder why do some substances such as soap or baby oil become slippery when mixed with water? Is It a chemical reaction? I made a slip-n-slide and instantly wondered which is better to use. Thx
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Mr. Biegun
7/31/2018 12:12:00 pm
Hi Luca,
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Luca Pop
7/31/2018 11:24:29 am
Hi Mr Biegun I was wondering if people could kill tardigrades since scientists think it is the toughest creature. plus what is the oldest tardigrade to ever live in its cryptobiotic state a.k.a Nun?
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Mr. Biegun
7/31/2018 12:26:31 pm
Tardigrades, or "water bears", are sometimes called the toughest animal on Earth; but that doesn't mean they are impossible to kill. If you squash them they will easily die. But they are tough because they are "extremophiles", which means they can survive extreme conditions that other animals can't handle, such as extreme temperatures, acidity, or long periods of dryness.
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Luca
7/31/2018 01:59:39 pm
Sory i meant tun not nun.
Luca
8/2/2018 10:08:32 am
Hi Mr. Biegun i wonder that if i sleep in, then does that mean i can wake up earlier for school or should i wake up early to train myself to wake up? Thank You.
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Mr. Biegun
8/2/2018 12:16:09 pm
Your body has a kind of internal sleep timer called the "circadian clock". From what I've heard and experienced, you can "train" your clock by keeping a consistent pattern of waking and sleeping.
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Luca Pop
8/3/2018 10:57:41 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun i realized i wonder a lot during the summer and i remembered when you said that we do not get energy during our sleep so theoretically if i just eat end walk around will be totally fine since i don't get energy by sleeping?
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Luca Pop
8/3/2018 10:59:11 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun I wonder why do we sleep if we do not get energy from it? Do we "conserve" it?
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Mr. Biegun
8/7/2018 03:45:38 pm
Hi Luca,
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Luca Pop
8/25/2018 10:07:12 am
Hi Mr Biegun I Just recently caught a Blanchards Cricket Frog (Acris Crepitans) and i have been wondering how does the frog stay still without "moving a Muscle"? are the muscles specially made?
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Mr. Biegun
9/7/2018 09:33:13 pm
That’s pretty cool, Luca. I had not heard of these tiny frogs before so I read several articles. They are quite rare in Michigan, but more common in other places.
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Luca Pop
9/5/2018 03:48:14 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun i took a shower today and noticed that on the plastic cover there were drops of water they clumped together and then fell is this also how rain forms? Thx
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Mr. Biegun
9/7/2018 09:27:34 pm
Yes, Luca, this is similar to how raindrops form. In your shower, tiny droplets stick to the shower curtain; water molecules are attracted to each other like tiny magnets, so when other droplets get close enough they join together. Eventually, the drops get large enough that gravity is stronger than the attraction to the plastic.
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Morgan Heintz
9/5/2018 06:05:16 pm
So we have science and scientists present day. But how was science founded? Who created science?
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Mr. Biegun
9/7/2018 09:46:45 pm
Hi Morgan,
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Bryce Lapid 6th hour
9/5/2018 08:21:30 pm
In class is there any kind of experiment that we get to use liquid nitrogen???
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Luca Pop
9/6/2018 09:41:18 pm
Yes i am luca and mr biegun will do inflating ballons with liquid notrogen plus he will also make ice cream but that is for later Bryce.
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Mr. Biegun
9/7/2018 09:51:08 pm
I do love doing experiments with liquid nitrogen, Bryce, and I think every kid should have a chance to experience this, so I’m sure at some point this year we will be able to do it. It’s a challenge, because I have to go pretty far to buy it, and it costs a lot, but I think it’s worth it. I’ll try to find a good time to do it, probably in the second half of the year.
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Kailey Darovitz
9/8/2018 11:19:39 am
Hi Mr. Biegun! I was wondering what makes liquid nitrogen so cold?
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Mr. Biegun
9/8/2018 12:35:14 pm
Hi Kailey,
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Maha Bhatti
9/10/2018 09:09:53 pm
Hi Mr.Biegun, how are you?
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 08:07:10 am
Hi Maha.
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Maha Bhatti
10/3/2018 09:49:04 pm
Thx Mr. Biegun for answering my question, I heard from someone that you read my question out loud to your class......is that true????
Keira FAUCHEUX
9/12/2018 03:36:25 pm
How are black holes made
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 08:34:28 am
Hi Keira,
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Dominique Robinson
9/13/2018 05:20:53 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 09:09:59 am
Hi Dominique,
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Legend Henry
9/14/2018 06:56:54 pm
Hi Mr. Biegan, I was wondering if melanin causes freckles, does melanin also cause birthmarks? If not, what causes birthmarks? (:
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 09:29:23 am
Hi Legend,
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Legend Henry
9/14/2018 07:01:16 pm
Hi Mr. Biegan, I was wondering, do taste buds, "mature?" For example, when I was about the ages 5-9, I did not like almonds, I hated almonds. Now, I actually enjoy eating almonds. (:
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 09:44:43 am
I think there is no doubt that young children can be VERY sensitive to strong tastes, and as you get older it seems easier to try something new that has a different taste.
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Bryce Lapid
9/15/2018 08:43:02 am
HI Mr.Biegun I was wondering why does space take out all of the air out of a human, why can't we hold our breath?
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Mr. Biegun
9/16/2018 10:05:08 am
Hi Bryce,
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Bonnie Benford 4th hour
9/17/2018 04:24:00 pm
since humans know how black holes form would it be possible to make one and if so how?
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Mr. Biegun
9/18/2018 09:49:56 am
Hi Bonnie,
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Bonnie Benford 4th hour
9/21/2018 03:55:35 pm
after you answered my question i did some research and i found that humans have been able to make them but they are not nearly as powerful
Hannah Barnes
9/17/2018 04:46:51 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun How are you? I was wondering... What would happen if a black hole swallowed another black hole? Thanks! Have a nice day!
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Mr. Biegun
9/18/2018 10:01:36 am
Hi Hannah,
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Bryce Lapid
9/17/2018 07:04:17 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I was wondering if there is a chemical reaction that fill the size of the Earth, like giant atoms being formed to the size of the earth because of the chemical reaction, if so I would love to know. :) :)
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Mr. Biegun
9/18/2018 10:05:08 am
Hi Bryce,
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Connor Yamarino 6th hour
9/17/2018 08:48:41 pm
I was helping my dad with something and I got him a mirror and I just thought to myself “What is a mirror made of.” I hope you could answer my question soon, thank you!🔭🔬
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Mr. Biegun
9/18/2018 10:07:56 am
Hi Connor,
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Brecken Bliss
9/19/2018 08:04:00 pm
Hi Mr.biegun!! I was wondering if i put a Mento in my mouth and then drink Coke what will happen??would it be the same if you dropped a Mento into a Coke???thanks bye
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Mr. Biegun
9/19/2018 08:13:02 pm
Hi Brecken,
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Luca Pop
9/19/2018 08:36:25 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun my little brother watched a number video with Herman the worm and he got fat and his voice got deeper so i wondered can my weight affect my voice like if i get heavier then will my voice get depper. Thank You.
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Mr. Biegun
9/20/2018 07:43:43 am
No, weight doesn't really affect your voice. When people get older, their voice does change for various reasons including hormones that change the tissues in the throat. This happens mostly during late childhood, but some changes occur throughout life, including for elderly people. But body weight isn't really the cause.
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Rickey Miller
9/20/2018 07:43:07 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I was wondering how do glasses work for people that need glasses. Is it a illusion to the eye?
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Mr. Biegun
9/23/2018 10:20:13 am
Hi Rickey,
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kevins
9/21/2018 05:39:23 pm
hi my question for today is, who came up the name planet and who was the first one to get to se out of space.
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Mr. Biegun
9/23/2018 10:26:08 am
Hi Kevins,
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Esme' LaVigne
9/21/2018 08:42:49 pm
Why are most trees green? Is it a chemical in the air?
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Luca Pop
9/24/2018 04:02:11 pm
Hi Esme' Lavigne trees are green because of clorophyl a kind of sugar in the leaves that create food for the plant but it needs oxygen to make the food since our atmosphere has oxygen that is why they are green.
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Esme LaVigne
9/26/2018 06:19:13 pm
I thought it had something to do with chlorophyl. Thx so much!
Mr. Biegun
10/1/2018 08:17:53 pm
Hi Esme',
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Jake Norton
9/24/2018 06:28:54 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/2/2018 08:05:28 pm
Hi Jake,
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Leah Edwards
9/24/2018 07:26:24 pm
Hi Mr.Beigun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/2/2018 08:31:16 pm
Hi Leah,
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Richard
10/4/2018 11:31:12 am
Hi, Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/10/2018 08:00:52 am
Hey Richard and Kimber! So nice to hear from you- how is 9th grade going? And congratulations, your comment makes the 1,000th on this blog (although about half are my own responses I guess, so that's about 500 questions submitted).
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Niya Brown
10/5/2018 09:09:05 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun I was thinking about how we talked about neanderthals and I was wondering what makes us human?
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Mr. Biegun
10/10/2018 06:02:16 pm
Hi Niya,
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Niya Brown
10/11/2018 04:28:59 pm
Thanks Mr. B
Luca Pop
10/8/2018 09:08:59 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun I was wondering if there is going to be science club this year and it there is i am really looking forward to it.- Luca Pop
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Mr. Biegun
10/10/2018 07:16:09 am
Hi Luca,
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Sydney Baliat
10/12/2018 06:56:41 am
Hi Mr. Biegun i was wondering why do when you go through a cloud on a plane it is Jagged and bumby but when you look at it the look so soft and fluffy?
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Mr. Biegun
10/13/2018 09:54:54 pm
Hi Sydney,
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Amruta Balur
10/17/2018 05:04:21 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/27/2018 01:41:49 pm
Hi Amruta,
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DeJon
10/22/2018 07:40:18 am
Hi I wonder this morning why when you sweat and wipe a dry towel why does it burn
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Mr. Biegun
10/27/2018 01:44:43 pm
Hi DeJon,
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Olivia Zarkis
10/24/2018 07:25:40 am
i was wondering, how is lighting and thunder made?
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Mr. Biegun
10/27/2018 01:59:22 pm
Hi Olivia,
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Olivia Zarkis
10/28/2018 06:38:02 pm
Thank you, and that is very cool!
Luca Pop
10/27/2018 02:23:29 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun Here is a science joke: What did the proton say to the neutron? ... Stop bieng so negative !!! ba dum crashhh
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Mr. Biegun
10/27/2018 04:38:36 pm
The neutron said to the proton, "are you sure I'm not allowed to be negative?"
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Luca Pop
11/1/2018 09:29:08 pm
Nice, I wish I thought about that.
Leah hoch
11/1/2018 07:00:39 pm
I wonder what human means and if we people under stand what it means ?😀
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 08:29:54 pm
Hi Leah,
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Leah hoch
11/1/2018 07:09:06 pm
Hi Mr Biegun
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Luca Pop
11/4/2018 09:27:25 pm
You mean Pi the mathematical number for measuring the circumference of a circle, 3.141592653597932etc.
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 08:41:10 pm
Hmmm. First let's try to clear up that last sentence: the scientist you referred to is actually named Albert Einstein, and he died about 60 years ago. But he had nothing to do with solving the number which is called "Pi" (not pie).
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Bryce Lapid
12/1/2018 10:37:09 am
Hi Leah, I'm not an expert at math but I can tell you its a little confusing but once you learn it you'll get the hang of it.
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Dominique Robinson
11/5/2018 03:47:27 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun! How's it going?
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 08:47:26 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Esme LaVigne 4th hour
11/7/2018 04:46:08 pm
Why can some people taste the difference in Spring water and Purified water and some don't? Does it have something to do with their taste buds?
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 08:51:55 pm
Hi Esme',
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Esme LaVigne 4th hour
11/11/2018 03:36:41 pm
Why are mountains cold,snowy,and icy because I thought hot air was supposed to rise?
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 08:56:55 pm
Great question, Esme'. It really shows you are thinking, to come up with a question like this.
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cooper voeffray
11/11/2018 06:26:52 pm
hi its cooper from 1st hour and i was wondering does the mentos coke experiment work with any fizzy drinks?
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Mr. Biegun
11/11/2018 09:04:11 pm
Well, Cooper, your Experiment Group is working on testing the Mentos/Soda reaction this very week. I believe your group chose to use Diet Coke in every trial (that's a standardized variable); and you decided to try different numbers of mentos to see if that has an effect (that's your independent variable).
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Mr. Biegun
11/25/2018 08:10:51 pm
Hi Jorge,
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luke miltimore
11/14/2018 06:16:41 pm
Hi mr Biegun, i am wondering if you put some fire on liquid nitrogen what would happen
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Mr. Biegun
11/25/2018 08:15:51 pm
Hi Luke,
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Maha Bhatti
11/14/2018 10:05:30 pm
This is not a question.........all i want to say is that I AM GOING TO MISS U SO MUCH
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Mr. Biegun
11/25/2018 08:18:42 pm
Thanks, Maha, I'll miss you also, and all my other friends at AMS. I know you will do great, just keep working as hard as you did in my class last year! No matter who your teacher is, SCIENCE is AWESOME! And it's really worth learning about, so keep asking questions and seeking answers!
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Luca Pop
11/16/2018 09:52:04 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, there are some kids on my bus that have you for science and they keep stating that this is your last year here at AMS. Is that true???
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Bryce Lapid
12/1/2018 10:22:44 am
yeah this is Mr. B's last year
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Esme LaVigne
11/21/2018 03:53:15 pm
I have heard many people say that if you wash your hair everyday it will get greasy. Is that true? If it is why does it get more greasy?
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Mr. Biegun
11/25/2018 08:22:03 pm
Hi Luca,
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Mr. Biegun
12/19/2018 08:16:03 pm
Hi Esme,
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Esme LaVigne
2/8/2019 05:23:44 pm
I just read what you told me about hair. Thank you so much! I asked my Aunt to tell me what she thought about it before I asked you. She was happy when she found out she was right!
Galilea Romero
11/22/2018 05:30:23 pm
Why do we have acid in our stomach?
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Luca Pop
11/25/2018 12:32:39 pm
Hi Galilea, You have acids in your stomach to help digest your food. Your stomach acids break down the food to make it easier for the intestines to collect the nutrients.
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Mr. Biegun
11/25/2018 08:29:02 pm
Hi Galilea,
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Bryce Lapid
12/1/2018 10:31:35 am
Hi Mr.B I was wondering if CRISPER the tech we were talking about in class. If those genes from the animals could not only put it in animals but if they put human genes in human. It kind of sounds weird but if we wanted an ability that a human did not want the ability but another human did. Thanks :)
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Mr. Biegun
12/13/2018 07:05:04 am
Hi Bryce. You are noticing one of the reasons that it's so controversial to even explore how to "edit" human genes. Although there is a long way to go in developing the science, the type of things you describe could certainly happen in the future.
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Galilea Romero
12/12/2018 10:55:05 pm
So when it rains , does it rain fresh water into fresh water and salt into salt water oceans?
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Mr. Biegun
12/13/2018 07:08:35 am
Hi Galilea,
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Amruta Balur - 3rd hour - AMS
12/19/2018 05:20:54 pm
Hello Mr.Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
12/19/2018 08:10:22 pm
Hi Amruta! How nice to hear from you- I sure do miss seeing you in my class every day! I am slowly learning how to teach in a new school. There are many nice kids here- but none nicer than the ones I had in Avondale!
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Luca Pop
2/12/2019 11:03:22 am
Hi Mr. Biegun I read your answer to Amruta and was wondering on how you said you cut through some of the cells and thought if it was possible to NOT cut through any of the cells. If the cells were not cut then would the apple stay how it is and not turn brown? Also, how predictable are humans?
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Mr. Biegun
2/13/2019 08:34:34 pm
Hi Luca! I hope you are well.
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Oleg Slobodyan
2/13/2019 08:35:48 pm
I wonder what would happen if you when inside Jupiter.
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Mr. Biegun
2/13/2019 08:42:42 pm
Hi Oleg.
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Amruta Balur - 3rd hour - AMS
2/18/2019 02:14:45 pm
Hello Mr.Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
2/18/2019 02:40:55 pm
Hi Amruta! I sure miss you and all my wonderful Avondale kids. I hope you are doing well.
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Adam O'Deven
2/21/2019 07:25:29 am
Hi Mr. Biegun. I really miss you and was thinking about the creation of our units of time. I was wondering how the people who created it knew that earth had traveled all the way around the sun.
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Mr. Biegun
2/24/2019 04:17:49 pm
Hi Adam. I miss you also, and all my friends at AMS. I especially miss your GREAT questions- so thanks for this one!
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Luca Pop
4/3/2019 09:44:39 am
Hi Mr. Biegun we really miss you here at AMS. I have two questions, this one is not really science related, it's about fishing. What is the biggest fish you caught, species, and lure you used? The other one is you know how Elon Musk sent The Tesla roadster to space, how did he attach it to the Falcon Heavy rocket and how did he get it to orbit the sun? Thanks we miss you.
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2019 09:00:09 pm
Hi Luca, nice to hear from you!
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Mr. Biegun
4/3/2019 09:17:36 pm
Ok, I'll do the Tesla question separately, because it seems a little weird to mix topics like that!
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Luca Pop
4/6/2019 08:36:31 am
The "spider" plants you gave me are still living. Thanks still.
Dominique Robinson
4/16/2019 06:41:22 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
4/23/2019 09:31:24 pm
Hi Dominique! It's so nice to see a question from you! I sure miss seeing you at school every day.
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Leah Edwards
6/7/2019 12:24:39 pm
Has the universe existed forever? Or was there something before it?
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Mr. Biegun
6/9/2019 06:51:15 pm
Hi Leah- so nice to hear from you! I hope you are well, and looking forward to summer break as much as I am!
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Alexis Yan
6/11/2019 02:54:08 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
6/11/2019 06:52:51 pm
Hi Alexis! Thanks for writing- I've been wondering if you might drop in to see me here at the end of the year- and find me not there!
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Ben Guettler
9/11/2019 06:57:06 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun. I was wondering what the possibilities of CRSPR are, like if you could give a human super speed or super strength.
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Mr. Biegun
9/11/2019 07:21:29 pm
Hi Ben,
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Jay Reddy
9/11/2019 07:48:52 pm
Is it possible that if humans had a nuclear war, crickets would be the only living thing alive?
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Mr. Biegun
9/14/2019 07:13:50 pm
Hi Jay,
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Sarah Solomon
9/12/2019 05:06:05 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun! What is light made of? Or rather, what are the molecules that make up light?
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Mr. Biegun
9/14/2019 07:26:53 pm
Hi Sarah,
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Jay Reddy
9/18/2019 07:22:46 pm
Could you make a candle out of chocolate?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2019 02:32:42 pm
Hi Jay,
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Ben Guettler
9/19/2019 06:37:22 pm
How big is the universe in the measurement of light years?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2019 02:58:04 pm
That is a fascinating question to consider, Ben. The bottom line is that scientists do NOT know the answer for sure. But I did some research, and here are some thoughts to consider:
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nate eckert
9/20/2019 09:51:54 am
How do hornets make such a big hive when they are so small, are they the super hero form of a bee?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2019 03:10:49 pm
Hi Nate,
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Hayden D
9/20/2019 02:51:17 pm
How do those desktop stirling engines work and run off of a flame under it?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2019 03:23:45 pm
Hi Hayden,
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Sarah Solomon
9/20/2019 06:32:33 pm
What is darkness made of? Or is it just the absence of light?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2019 03:35:45 pm
You are right, Sarah. There is actually no such thing as "darkness", just as there is no such thing as "coldness"!
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Reisha Taragaturi
9/24/2019 10:14:04 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun. We miss you at AMS! I'm not sure if you still do these, but I have a question. Today, I saw this challenge on social media where you stick your arm out and touch a wall, then put your arm down, rub your elbow, and stick it back up. When you stick it back up, it doesn't touch the wall. How can this be? Thanks.
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Mr. Biegun
9/25/2019 05:21:27 pm
Hi Reisha,
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Jay Reddy
9/26/2019 06:22:07 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was wondering that if you waterproofed a car, and added fins to the wheels could the car "swim"? With the expectation that the engine had a steady supply of oxygen. Or would it explode because water is 800 times denser than air, therefore applying too much stress on the engine. Would horsepower and torque affect the results of the experiment. Also where would the exhaust go and would it harm sea life. Thanks, Jay
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2019 04:49:37 pm
Hi Jay,
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Matthew Chambliss
9/28/2019 04:51:00 pm
Hello Mr.Biegun. I was wondering about how I would increase the intensity of a light or laser. Would I have to get a more powerful battery? Or would I need to alter the components that allow the light/laser to work?
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Mr. Biegun
9/28/2019 04:54:36 pm
Hi Matthew. I'm no expert on lasers, but I would think you would need to do both things: since you are producing light energy, the more power your battery has, the more energy you can produce. But you would need components that can handle that extra energy as well, to convert it to laser light. In other words, I doubt you could just take a Dollar Store laser and somehow hook a car battery to it and produce a powerful laser.
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Jay
12/18/2019 06:41:01 pm
Light is made up of things called photons. When you turn on a flashlight, photons scatter in every which way. usually. there is a shiny piece of metal at the back of the bulb to help focus the photons (aluminum). Lasers are also a stream of photos that is denser than those of a photon. the strip of aluminum is good at redirecting photons, but not enough to create a laser.
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Dominique Robinson
10/7/2019 04:28:54 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I hope you're having fun teaching at your new school! I have a question, why do we have dreams or nightmares? This is a question I've wondered a lot when I was younger but I never looked it up or asked anyone.
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Mr. Biegun
10/12/2019 03:38:07 pm
Hi Dominique! I hope you are doing well. What grade are you in this year? Please say hi to your family for me.
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Dominique Robinson
10/12/2019 06:34:31 pm
Thanks for answering my question, I'm in the 8th grade, and my family said hello!
JoHannah Barnes
10/9/2019 07:12:43 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/12/2019 03:51:06 pm
Hi JoHanna,
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JoHannah Barnes
10/13/2019 10:19:28 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2019 04:37:18 pm
Hi Joanna,
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Elisa Mina
10/30/2019 09:38:45 am
Why is the sky blue?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2019 04:53:30 pm
Hi Elisa,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
11/8/2019 08:35:21 am
why do the cancer cells don't want to die?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2019 05:07:32 pm
Hi Emi,
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Luca Pop
11/12/2019 05:57:50 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun, how are you doing? I was solving my rubik's cube
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2019 05:21:13 pm
Hi Luca,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
11/15/2019 10:03:50 pm
how does the placebo effect work and why does it work?
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Mr. Biegun
11/16/2019 05:37:45 pm
Hi Emi,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
11/20/2019 08:49:06 am
what is being alive if "alive" things are non living things?
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Emiliano Rodrigo
11/20/2019 09:00:12 pm
i meant *made of non living*
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Jay
12/18/2019 06:01:44 pm
Humans are made up of cells. Most cells contain carbon hydrogen and oxygen. Cells also have a kind of coding called DNA. This tells the cell how to behave. DNA is usually located in the nucleus of the cell. DNA usually tells the cells to multiply, which is how we grow. The nucleus is made out of DNA RNA and nuclear proteins. Dna is made up of nucleotide molecules. Each nucleotide contains a phosphate group, a sugar group and a nitrogen base. The four types of nitrogen bases are adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C).
Mr. Biegun
11/24/2019 08:18:07 pm
Hi Emi,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
11/25/2019 06:26:02 pm
so, what i meant is that we are made of water, calcium, phosphorus and other stuff. but these things are not alive. so, how come we are alive but when we "die" we are not alive anymore if only we are not doing a function of our body?
Nate Eckert
12/4/2019 08:19:07 pm
why do some viruses go straight to the heart while other viruses give you a stuffy nose or a ear infection?
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Mr. Biegun
12/22/2019 05:24:28 pm
Hi Nate,
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Nate Eckert
12/4/2019 08:21:27 pm
How much carbon dioxide does the average car produce in 30 minutes of driving?
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Jay
12/18/2019 05:46:26 pm
The average passenger vehicle emits about 411 grams of CO2 per mile. This number can vary based on two factors: the fuel economy of the vehicle and the amount of carbon in the vehicle's fuel. If the car is traveling at 60mph, then the car would produce approximately 12330 grams of CO2 (684.4296419650291 moles).
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Mr. Biegun
12/22/2019 05:17:40 pm
That's very interesting, Jay. Can you share the source of the information?
Luke Malley
1/15/2020 01:37:27 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun.
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Mr. Biegun
1/23/2020 10:04:16 pm
Hi Luke,
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Dominique Robinson
1/16/2020 02:55:39 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
1/23/2020 09:59:41 pm
Hi Dominique,
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Alicia Atto
1/23/2020 09:57:25 pm
Hi, what causes a black hole?????
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Mr. Biegun
1/23/2020 10:09:16 pm
Hi Alicia,
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Alicia
2/8/2020 12:24:27 pm
I wonder which type of human extinct faster. What I mean by that is what year did they come and what year did they all go. So basiclly which type of human like nethandrals, homo-naledi, or anything else. So who came and went the fastest.
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Mr. Biegun
2/8/2020 12:52:37 pm
Hi Alicia,
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Michael Chioini
2/12/2020 01:41:34 pm
How much does the sky weigh?
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Mr. Biegun
2/21/2020 12:52:44 pm
Hi Michael,
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Michael Chioini
2/12/2020 01:58:00 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was wondering if it is true that polar bears are undetectable by infared cameras?
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Mr. Biegun
2/21/2020 01:08:33 pm
Michael- I hadn't heard this before, so I looked around and read some articles. It is true! (At least partially).
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Charlie Baker
3/23/2020 01:02:14 pm
Is there a good way to comprehend the nothing and no time outside of our universe and "before" the big bang?
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Mr. Biegun
3/23/2020 08:27:54 pm
Hi Charlie,
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Luca Pop
4/15/2020 09:47:03 pm
Hello, Mr. Biegun, um I was wondering, does water "stick" to you because we are around 75% water?
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Mr. Biegun
4/29/2020 08:13:33 pm
Hi Luca,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
5/25/2020 11:28:16 am
what element has to be the coldest to become solid?
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Mr. Biegun
5/26/2020 02:05:43 pm
Hi Emi,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
5/26/2020 07:39:45 pm
so would helium be the best material to try and get absolute zero, or is there a better material? and what element has to be the hottest to be a gas? how does air conditioning work?
Emiliano Rodrigo
6/3/2020 02:51:45 pm
hello mr.biegun :)
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Mr. Biegun
6/12/2020 10:06:17 pm
Hi Emi,
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Charlie Baker
6/10/2020 09:14:03 pm
How does pressure sensitivity work on Apple Pencils, and other pressure sensitive styluses?
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Mr. Biegun
6/12/2020 10:22:02 pm
Hi Charlie,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
7/2/2020 03:33:33 pm
why do we need to sleep?
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Mr. Biegun
8/28/2020 09:06:19 am
Hi Emi,
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Kryssy Becker
8/28/2020 08:10:59 am
Hi, Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
8/28/2020 09:16:11 am
Hi Kryssy! How wonderful to hear from you! I hope you are well.
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Alexander Grabowski
9/11/2020 03:24:42 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, how are you? Anyway, I was thinking, if I were to suddenly, say, get sucked into a black hole, what would it be like in there? Also, would there be any way out?
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2020 03:21:24 pm
Hi Alex,
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Alexander Grabowski
9/21/2020 01:59:48 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
9/21/2020 03:04:26 pm
Hi Alex,
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Luca Pop
10/8/2020 07:21:51 am
Hey Mr. Biegun, how are you?, I was wondering, Why did Einstein and other famous scientists believe that nuclear weapons was not going to be possible. Luca
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Mr. Biegun
10/23/2020 11:57:59 pm
Hi Luca,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
10/9/2020 10:27:36 am
hello Mr.Biegun :3
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Mr. Biegun
10/24/2020 12:01:22 am
Hi Emi,
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Alexander Grabowski
10/13/2020 02:41:51 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
10/24/2020 12:05:09 am
Hi Alex,
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Anish Jain
10/19/2020 11:25:03 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun! How are you! It feels like time has past so quickly since 6th grade. I still remember doing the popcorn experiment in the room in the back, and having a blast :) I don't really have a question, but I hope you are doing well. Thanks for the awesome experiences!
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Mr. Biegun
10/24/2020 12:14:44 am
Hi Anish! It's so nice to hear from you! I hope you are doing well also. I am fine, for the time being at least. It's really tough to teach in this pandemic, but I'm certainly learning a lot of new skills. I will be doing a lot of science demos by video this year, so you might see some new ones popping up on my YouTube channel. My school, Bloomfield Hills Middle School, has been back for several weeks now in a "hybrid" model. Half of the students come to school in the morning, and the other half in the afternoon. Teachers are there all day of course, so I teach 8 science classes each day (7th grade), but each class is only 35 minutes! But I suspect eventually we may all be sent back home for virtual learning again.
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Jay Reddy
10/29/2020 07:51:56 pm
Hello Mr. Beigun,
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Mr. Biegun
10/29/2020 08:28:45 pm
Hi Jay,
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Jay Reddy
10/30/2020 10:48:10 am
Thank you so much Mr. Biegun!
Luca Pop
11/12/2020 12:39:45 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, hope you are well, i was just wondering, how did the creators of the internet know how to connect each computer to each other, without a physical connection. How did they create the internet, without a connection?
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Mr. B
1/3/2021 10:34:14 pm
Hi Luca,
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Emiliano Rodrigo
12/2/2020 03:53:17 pm
hello mr biegun!
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Alex Grabowski
12/3/2020 09:40:33 am
Hi Emi!
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Emiliano Rodrigo
12/3/2020 02:09:32 pm
thankyou, alex!
Mr. Biegun
1/3/2021 10:20:40 pm
Wow, that's really cool, Alex. Did you know that already?
Alexander Grabowski
1/4/2021 09:20:10 am
I did already know this. Before I was into building computers and writing small and silly computer programs, this was one of the first things that actually captured my interest. In fact, I used to have a collection of old hotel cards hidden beneath a floor board in my old house, which I forgot about until now. But I really don't care about this anymore, and thus I probably spent 150 hours looking at schematics and diagrams of hotel locks that I will never get back. It is still a feat of technology though!
Emiliano Rodrigo
1/11/2021 09:02:33 am
Hello Mr. Biegun!
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Luca Pop
1/20/2021 10:24:10 am
Hey Emi, Im Luca, i used to be in Mr. Bieguns Class 4 years ago.
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Mr. Biegun
1/20/2021 10:47:52 am
Thanks, Luca- great answer!
Gunner Bliss
2/11/2021 10:30:40 pm
Hey mr Biegun! I wonder if you remember me? My girlfriend and I where talking about the best science teachers we’ve had today and your class got brought up. I remembered you used to do this so I had to find out if it was still going on. A real science question I have though is why does the human metabolism tend to slow down with age? For example it would be easier for a 16 year old to stay in shape compared to someone who might be 50+ years old ?
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Mr. Biegun
2/12/2021 05:24:34 pm
Hey, Gunner, great to hear from you! Of course I remember- I hope you and your family are well. I'd love to hear what you're up to these days. Do I know your girlfriend also?
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Marcus M
3/11/2021 07:54:10 am
Hi Mr. Biegun! I hope you are doing well, I'm in high school now! I have a question for you, Why do LED lightbulbs get dimmer and eventually stop working?
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Mr. Biegun
3/11/2021 08:28:45 pm
Hi Marcus! So nice to hear from you. Wow, I can't believe you're in high school already. I hope you are doing ok in this tough time!
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AJ Banaylo
3/18/2021 11:13:31 am
Is Covid-19 real?
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 04:41:25 pm
Hi AJ,
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Jordan Lewinski
3/18/2021 11:16:30 am
Hey Mr. Biegun. It has been a while since I have been here. How do masks stop Covid and how come some materials don't work?
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 04:45:06 pm
Hi Jordan! I hope you are well.
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Anthony Ford
3/18/2021 11:17:59 am
Do you think Pluto is a planet???????
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 04:50:23 pm
Hi Anthony,
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AJ Banaylo
3/18/2021 11:19:10 am
Why do we dream? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 04:55:17 pm
This is actually something scientists aren't sure about (yet). But many people think dreaming is a way that your body "cleans up" junk that collects in your brain during the day, getting ready for a new day.
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Luca Pop
3/18/2021 11:20:52 am
Hey Mr. Biegun how ae you? I was wondering on how heat kills covid. Thanks- Luca
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 05:00:37 pm
Hi Luca! Glad to hear from you. I sure have gotten a lot of messages from Avondale kids today. Do you know why that is?
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AJ
3/18/2021 11:21:25 am
What is the most radioactive item we tend to use almost every day? (⊙_⊙;)
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 05:19:52 pm
My guess is: bananas! They contain a lot of potassium, and a little bit of that is radioactive.
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ella dotan
3/18/2021 11:49:55 am
Hi Mr. Biegun its been a while!! How have you been? Life has been pretty crazy recently because of covid but were getting through it. Hope you are doing well and too and I'll be sure to come to your website more often if I have any science questions!
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 05:02:46 pm
Hi Ella,
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ella dotan
3/18/2021 05:07:08 pm
So we started going in person (if u wanted to) A-L last names going Monday and Tuesday , Wednesdays were asynchronous, then M-Z last names went Thursday Friday, and if u weren’t in person at all of just for those 2 days we would be online. starting next week though we are all going 4 days a week, and then wednesdays would still be asynchronous. Also I forgot to ask what school do you teach at now?
Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 05:16:04 pm
Sounds like our schedules are similar. Since January we've had asynchronous Wednesdays. (I kind of like getting to stay home on Wednesdays!)
Alivia Schwerin
3/18/2021 11:58:48 am
What causes people to get tics and tic disorder? (._.`)
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Mr. Biegun
3/18/2021 05:08:19 pm
Hi Alivia! I hope you are doing well.
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Vivian Provo
3/22/2021 11:37:01 am
what leads to cataracts? like are there any precursors?
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Mr. Biegun
3/26/2021 10:48:49 am
Hi Vivian! How nice to see your name again! I hope you are doing well during these difficult times.
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Shahmeer Khan
3/22/2021 11:38:32 am
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
3/26/2021 10:50:07 am
Hi Shahmeer,
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Cayden
12/14/2021 09:21:16 am
What element(s) is fire made of?
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Mr. Biegun
12/14/2021 06:06:44 pm
Hi Cayden,
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Luca Pop
3/2/2022 06:35:41 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun, I was wondering if it is possible to create "synthetic" water. For example, would it be possible to take two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom and combine them to make a molecule of water. I miss your class a lot. ~Luca
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Mr. Biegun
3/2/2022 08:36:54 pm
Hi Luca! So nice to hear from you again! What grade are you in now? Yes, I miss those times we had together also. I have another Luca in my 7th grade class this year (he loves science too) so it made me think of you right away when I met him.
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Clayton Youmans
4/5/2022 08:25:09 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun.
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Mr. Biegun
4/5/2022 08:58:04 pm
Hi Clayton!
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Jack Stark
5/7/2022 04:42:25 pm
Hey Mr.Biegun!
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Mr. Biegun
5/7/2022 09:02:55 pm
Hi Jack! Nice to hear from you- I hope all is well?
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Jordan Lewinski
5/11/2022 09:51:19 am
Hey Mr. Biegun it's been a while. Why do metronomes synchronize when together on a moving platform?
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Mr. Biegun
5/11/2022 06:20:32 pm
Hi Jordan,
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Jordan Lewinski
5/18/2022 09:33:53 am
Hey Mr. Biegun I have been wondering for a while. How do cameras work?
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Mr. Biegun
5/18/2022 09:55:31 pm
Hi Jordan,
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Charlie Baker
6/16/2022 10:58:45 pm
Hello Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
6/30/2022 04:32:22 pm
Hi Charlie,
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ella dotan
12/7/2022 01:09:08 pm
Hi Mr. Biegun!!!
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Mr. Biegun
12/11/2022 10:58:28 am
Hi Ella! So glad to hear from you again!
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Jordan Lewinski
3/4/2023 09:32:43 am
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
3/4/2023 12:52:39 pm
Hi Jordan! Amazing that you're a senior- it seem such a short time since you were in my class! I'm glad you're still interested in science. Do you know where you hope to go to college?
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Jordan Lewinski
3/4/2023 09:54:33 pm
I believe he means that his plan worked. There is a ton of info like memories and other things that are stored in the brain. I believe that that would all be transferred with his brain. Now I cannot imagine the shock and amount of medical nightmares that would be caused by having a whole different nervous and immune system. This seems like a scenario that is either improbable or very very difficult and way past us. It is a very interesting puzzle to think about though.
Alexander Grabowski
5/17/2023 08:43:33 am
Hi Mr. Biegun! Hope you are doing well!
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Mr. Biegun
5/17/2023 02:15:40 pm
Hi Alex, nice to hear from you!
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Kaushik Vellore
6/21/2023 12:37:40 am
Hey Mr, Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
6/26/2023 07:57:44 pm
Hi Kaushik, I'm happy to hear from you! Wow, you're going to be a senior already? In Avondale? Amazing how time flies by. Do you have plans for your future after next year?
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Luca Pop
8/27/2023 12:21:10 am
Hey Mr Biegun how are you doing? i’m a senior now and i miss your class back in middle school. I wanted to ask, how much energy is wasted due to friction and air resistance while riding a motorcycle? i bought a dirt bike and when i ride i feel like the motor has a lot of power but air resistance and friction is slowing me down and not letting the motor go full power? This is just out of curiosity, i hope you have a great rest of your evening
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Mr. Biegun
8/27/2023 06:51:28 pm
Hi Luca!
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Jordan Lewinski
9/1/2023 03:26:47 pm
Hey Mr. Biegun,
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Mr. Biegun
9/2/2023 03:44:34 pm
Hi Jordan, great to hear from you! I hope college is going well- where did you go, and what are you planning to study there?
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