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2020 Year in Review

How does muscle memory work?

What is revenge bedtime procrastination?

Twitter roundup: Things to laugh at

Are old toasters better than modern ones?

If you have an idea that's the same as someone else's, is it still worth doing?

Why do songs get stuck in our heads?

How do gas pumps know when the tank is full?

Project Update #1

Twitter roundup: To be a bird in a pile of mangoes, only perceived as fruit

Are bats birds with fur or dogs with wings?

How do marine creatures and submarines not crumple under the weight of the ocean?

Fire-resistant trees????

Twitter roundup: When the moon hits your eye

What gives water its colour?

Can living things survive in space?

Twitter roundup: It's okay, flying alligators are probably not a harbinger of anything

What happens when we recycle paper?

Twitter roundup: Look for joy and find it in absurdist tweets

What's up with bird languages?

When civilization ends and the internet dies, how will future historians know what we did?

Little answers to lots of questions

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