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Same mechanism, longer path. Air scatters blue light far more than red, so by day the blue comes at you from every direction. At sunset the light crosses so much air that the blue is scattered out of the beam before it reaches you, and the red is what is left. Rayleigh scattering does both jobs.
Sometimes it does, and nobody fully agrees why. Evaporation, convection currents and dissolved gas are all suspects. The Mpemba effect is one of the few kitchen questions that is still an open research problem.
Unknown. Every animal with a brain does something like it, and it is a terrible survival strategy, so it must be worth the risk. The best current guess involves cleaning: the brain flushes waste through the glymphatic system mostly while you are out.
Partly arithmetic: a year is a tenth of a ten-year-old's life and a fiftieth of yours. Partly novelty: the brain timestamps new experiences densely and routine ones barely at all, so a year with nothing new in it is short in memory. Chronoception is the word, if you want one.
It is not bigger; a photo proves it. Your brain compares it with trees and buildings and decides it must be far away and huge. The moon illusion has been argued about since Ptolemy and is still not settled.
The hippocampus, which files memories for later, is not finished in the first years. You formed the memories; you had nowhere to put them.
Not drying out. The starch recrystallises as it cools, a process called retrogradation, which is why a stale loaf revives in the oven and why the fridge makes it worse.
Nobody knows what they are for. The best guess is a leftover reflex from lungfish ancestors that needed to close the airway while gulping. You are doing a four-hundred-million-year-old thing at dinner.
Unclear, and more so in people who score higher on empathy tests, which is suggestive but not proof. Dogs catch yawns from their owners. Reading this paragraph has a decent chance of working.
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