- · Science
· Sun
· Earth
· Ground
· Fire
· Wind
· Nature
· Energy - Technology
· Resources
· Plants
· Mud
· Soil
· Hot
· Cold
· Air
· Wheel
· Vehicles
· Sprinklers
· Fields
· Barley
· Maize
· Electricity Wire
· Solar Power
· Oceans
· Water – power
· Turbines
· World
· Balance
· Nature
· Evolution
· Electricity
· Balance
· Light
· Bulb
· Night
· Electric Poles
· Sky
· Clouds
· Lightening
· Houses
· Communication
· Phones
· Internet
· Scientist
· Computer
· Chip
· Electromagnetism
· North East West South
· Globe
· Microbes
· Bacteria
· Medicine
· Infection
· Polio
· Food
· Animals
· Vehicles
· Environment
· Earth (dirt, soil)
· Water and rain and snow
· Dust
· Trees, wood, and grass
· Flowers
· Rock, rocks
· Rivers, lakes, mountains
· Sky
· Clouds
· Fish, birds, insects
· Worms
· Time
· Space
· Calendars
· Clocks and watches (imagine life without them)
· A year, twelve months in a year, seven days in a week, different lengths of months.
· If a year has 365 days, why don't we simply have seven 30-day months and five 31-day months?
· What if the earth were flat?
· What if the earth didn't rotate?
· Light
· Colors
· Heat, and cold
· The sun, moon, and stars
· Gravity
· Night and day
· Weekdays and weekends
· Numbers, arithmetic, and other forms of math
· Science
· Molecules and atoms
· Glass
· Cement
· Cloth
· Leather
· All the different electromagnetic waves that are passing around and through us all the time.
· The human body
· Hands, fingers, feet, toes, knees, elbows
· Hair and fingernails
· Why two ears and eyes and hands and feet and lungs? Why five fingers and toes? Would numbers be different? Why only one heart, stomach, liver, and brain?
· Blood
· The natural healing of cuts and other injuries
· Illness, handicaps
· Death
· Various philosophies of health and medicine
· Male and female
· Taboos, unmentionable body parts and functions, pornography, dirty words
· Food, and the need to eat
· Ice cream
· Vitamins
· Sleep
· Bathing
· Clean
· The human spirit; soul
· The brain, thinking, memory, imagination
· Forgetting
· Fear
· Love and hate
· Curiosity
· Laughter and jokes
· Boredom
· Pain (what is it?)
· Greed
· Charity (why give things away?)
· Habits
· Diversity of people: races, nationalities, cultures.
· Boundaries, nations, cities.
· Government. Why does it exist? What are the alternatives, and alternative forms? Why does government provide roads and mail but not food and clothing and shelter?
· Law, judges, courts, juries, the constitution.
· Politics, elections, Democrat and Republican
· Ownership of property
· Money
· Working
· Vacations
· Crime, law, police, punishment
· School
· Collections
· Games and sports (In general as well as the specific ones: what's the point of skiing, or swimming? Crossword puzzles?)
· Fishing and hunting
· Why do civilized people yearn to be in the great outdoors?
· Killing (people, animals, insects) (for sport, food, punishment, hate).
· Suicide, drugs. Who owns my body?
· Conventions (why does a red light make us stop? when nobody's around?)
· Shaking hands.
· Religion, God, gods, church
· Ritual
· Progress
· Museums
· Libraries
· Music (what's so special about this form of noise?).
· Musical instruments
· Dancing
· Words
· Names
· The alphabet, alphabets. (Why is that one of the first things we teach children?)
· Language, languages.
· Spelling
· Punctuation
· Ambiguity
· Lies
· Questions
· Writing.
· Fiction
· Movies, plays, operas. Why aren't other forms of communication popular entertainment? What's possible?
· Art
· Poetry
· Movies
· Television
· Photography
· News, newspapers
· Advertising
· History
· Fairy tales
· Comics
· Yes
· No
· Pockets
· Jewelry
· Gold, silver, diamonds
· Boats
· Buses and trains
· Computers
· Cars and streets
· Stores
· Garbage and sewers
· Mail
· Telephones
· Telephone books
· Paper
· Electricity
· Standards
· What if electricity and gasoline weren't provided the way they are?
· Nails and screws
· Tools, machines
· Shelves
· Knives
· Forks
· Plates
· Beds, tables, chairs
· Sinks, tubs, showers
· Soap
· Doors
· Rectangular rooms, doors, furniture, houses, plots, streets, ...
· Round wheels, flowers, fruit, stars and planets, ...
· Is anything in nature triangular?
· Diversity (what if everything was the same?)
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Words that make you think
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