Have you ever wondered...
...Why New Jersey is really the only place in America you can drop the "new" from and people still know what you're talking about? Nobody goes to York, or to Hampshire. They of course are real places, in England, but nobody ever assumes that you are hopping a plane to the U.K. if you say you're headed to "Jersey" for a few days. And now New Mexico, I can understand. I mean, it IS sort of in the same cardinal direction from almost anywhere in the word as the "old" one. And apparently the culture of one is significantly influenced by the culture of the other. In that respect, they are easy enough to get confused without the fact that one is the name sake for the other as well.
...If animals have menopause? The question came to mind the other night while overdosed on caffeine and unable to sleep. I was pondering the meaning of life, and It just hit me. My path of thinking was one of the mechanics of life. We are born, we breed, we die. Do we serve an unknown purpose before we replicate? If so... than are we really needed after we do? If we serve a purpose after we replicate... than what is it, and are we succeeding? Do animals have any similar purpose. If so, do they also lost the function of breeding when they hit an age at which it is impractical to devote energy to such bodily systems?
...What keeps Teflon stuck to the pan? I saw something on TV about it the other day. They DID explain that the reason it does not stick to food is because while the carbon and iron found in most foods will easily bond to most metals, the fluorine molecules in Teflon will not bond with them. It did NOT however explain why it DOES stick to an otherwise fully stickable pan.
Just thinking out loud.
Ken
