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• Environmental controls: On a roundabout just off the M25 motorway near London, there are signs labelled "Pollution Control Valve". What is this? And, if it's not a facetious question, where does the pollution go when the valve is shut?
• Who needs men?: Why is the ratio of men to women roughly equal?
• Shapely curves: Why are the walls of a barrel curved?
• Mercury's ring: Can mercury turn a gold ring silver?
• Sex thought: Is it true that men think about sex every 8 seconds?
• Random thought: What does "random" actually mean?
• Kalashnikov surfing: If I shoot my TV remote, is it destroyed before it transmits
• The hole story: Why are some manhole covers rectangular even though most are round?
• The hole answer: How is the hole in fine surgical needles produced?
• Knot so simple: Tying knots and making pentagons
• Hot tin mining: What happened to the Union Mine Uranium lode?
• What's the point: Why a blunt nail wont make wood split
• Aisle miles: The quickest way to find lost shoppers
• Barrel boom: A wooden barrel of gunpowder is a familiar sight in many historical movies, but were they really used?
• Rubber horror: Why do rubber bands spontaneously melt? Often I find an ageing one on my desk that has turned into a sticky mess. After a few more months, the sticky mass solidifies and become brittle. Why?
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• Abreast of the issue: On regular walks in a South Derbyshire opencast coal mine a few years ago, I frequently found stones that looked remarkably like human breasts, even down to their colouring. What are they, and how did they form?
• Ring of bright water: Beluga whales blow air rings. How fast can these bubbles be projected and why do they produce this shape, does it have any beneficial purpose?
• Stingray: Rays have delta-shaped wings. What is the particular advantage of this shape?
• Colour coding: What do the numbers printed on the back of colour photographs made by photo labs represent?
• Reflective mood: What material is used for the anti-reflective coating on the lenses of new glasses? And how does it work?
• Concrete jungle: How much of the surface area of the UK is taken up by roads?
• Icarus Returns: Given that I weigh 75 kilograms, how big would my wings have to be for me to take off like a bird?
• Fighting the frizz: Why do the different types of wetness produce very different hair styles?
• The eyes have it: Anableps anableps, a fish that floats with its bulbous, protruding eyes half in, half out of the water. How can it see in both air and water simultaneously?
• Bog Standards: Have cotton grasses ever been harvested commercially anywhere or could they be?
• Space talk: Why are more recent broadcasts of the same space journies better quality than the orignal broadcasts?
• Ear marked: What are the origins of the question-mark?
• Tell me straight: How were the first completely straight tools produced?
• Leading the sighted: Are there any successful blind scientists?
• Glorious mud: Has anyone devised any footwear that makes it possible to trek across soft mud?
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• Curious curio: Identifying a strange archaeological relic...
• Ram odd: What is a hydraulic ram?
• Axe axioms: The benefits of varied axe handle shapes
• Inner glow: Why does rotten wood sometimes glow?
• Humdrum hums: Electricity is supposed to be the "silent servant". So why do transformers hum?
• The power of three: What aerodynamic and other criteria are applied in determining the optimum number of blades for windmills?
• Bow how?: How does a rounded bow bulb eliminate the bow wave, and how does it improve efficiency?
• Cold surface: How long can a cold virus or any other pathogen live on a surface?
• Woodland wonder: Why do ice crystals form on branches where the bark is missing?
• Girl power: I am told that deep-sea divers tend to father more daughters than sons. Are there any studies to support this or is it just a coincidence?
• Killer chemical: How does chlorine in swimming pools kill harmful organisms and why is it the chemical of choice?
• Fear of failure: Is it safer to check and repack parachutes more or less frequently?
• On silent wings: How can paper aeroplanes fly?
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• War nuts: How could chestnuts have been used in making munitions?
• Rope trick: Why is a rope or braid stronger than its individual fibres?
• Red hot: Why do metals change colour after being tempered?
• Fossil record: What is the best method to fossilize my remains when I die?
• Does my bum . . . ?: Does black really make you look slimmer?
• Blubber bullets: How fat would you have to be to be bulletproof?
• A losing hand: How is it possible to make a bomb from playing cards?

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