- An atmosphere of one molecule will have an identical temperature profile, and a similar pressure profile, to atmospheres of any number of molecules. (95%)
- Snowflakes are acoustic standing waves. (85%)
- Any pure gas in zero-G can freeze into hexagonally symmetric flakes. (50%)
- ATP is like a blasting cap, and enzymes are springy. (80%)
- Muscle fibers don't need ratchets, they just use ATP's recoil. (70%)
- The pattern of punctuated equilibria is a consequence of sexual stereotyping. (60%)
- ESP involves sexuality, scent and low-frequency sound. (50%)
- (added Oct2005) The ear is a megaphone/transmitter as well as a receiver. (20%)
- (added August 2007) Eyebrows are 'virtual' representations of the shoulders, for signalling purposes; the mouth corresponds to the genitals. (80%/30%)
- (added August 2007) Humans retain light body hair to amplify the movements of vermin. (50%)
- Human males are closer genetically to chimp males than to human females. (80%)
- The first firestarters used meteoritic iron. (30%)
- Humans lost most of their sense of smell when they started cooking their food. (40%)
- Preverbal language is wiser than verbal. (60%)
- Science begins with play, description, and classification. (99%)
- Minoan Crete was a brothel of sex slaves, not a goddess culture. (75%)
- The Iliad recalls a quixotic Minoan attack on Egypt, not Troy. (25%)
- Josiah founded Judaism in 621BC, based partly on Greek models. (40%)
- Ezra c400BC reconciled (by duplication) the Jerusalem and Babylonian variants on creation, Adam and Eve, Deuteronomy vs Leviticus, and Kings vs Chronicles. (50%)
- These represent the only pre-600BC Bible texts. (30%)
- (added Oct2005) Jesus wasn't taken seriously, even by his acquaintances, until they seemed to be getting communications from him, after his death. (30%)
- (added August 2007) The gospels confuse Jesus the Galilean with Jesus the Egyptian. (25%) [more]
- could deodorant increase the divorce rate? [post]
- (added August 2007) Phonographs incidentally record ambient sound as they play. (40%)
- Von Neumann was wrong about hidden variables in QM, and he plagiarised Eckert and Mauchly's cpu-architecture. (75%)
- A simple line is to orthogonal cartesian n-space as a simple hierarchy is to a fractal thicket. (100%)
[original date 24 sept 2005]
