What Chuck Norris can never do.
The question whose answer is 42
Who the jams are and why we must kick them out
The axioms of physics
Whether Hissing Sid was guilty
Whether P=NP
How 7/3 arises in Navier-Stokes theory
The bin you can never choose from
Whether to be or not to be
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Our place in the universe
The chemistry of Cold Dark Matter
What evil is
How magnetic fields reconnect
The emergence of consciousness
What life is
Where the aliens are
The Nine Billion Names of God
Whether any given program will halt
But I ain't telling.
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