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What Is Color Blindness?
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Why Do Things Fall?    
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What Falls but Never Hits the Ground?  
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Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?
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Eyelashes grow until they reach their optimum length. Then they fall out and new lashes grow   Hello kiddos, This is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard to figure stuff out. I do the hard work so you don’t have to!
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In Sights
The Steipler and the Succah    
I did learn what it means to love mitzvos to such a degree that your entire body transforms itself
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Standing Up for Greatness   
Rav Aharon responded, “Is it possible to sit down while talking to Rav Moshe Feinstein?”
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Fire Fighters
Stop, Thief!
A small flicker, a smoldering ember. If left unchecked, it can become a raging inferno, consuming everything in its path. Unless someone stands tall and douses the flames. Four tales of courage
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A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 8
“Something happened today and I need your advice. Would I be able to come over to your house and show you something?”
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A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 7
As I passed, I nodded hello and even ventured a “Chodesh tov.” He looked at me, and suddenly held up his hand. The whole line stopped
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Making It
In a monthly series, Mishpacha speaks to real people in our communities who are struggling — and succeeding — to “make it.” Learn their strategies, secrets, fears, and dreams as they share the wealth of their hard-earned experience,
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Why Are Some People Lefties?

Being a lefty is pretty rare. Only around 10 percent of the population is left-handed

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What Is a Yawn?  

The first and simplest reason why people yawn is because they’re tired

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Why do people get the shivers?

Sometimes we shiver even though it has nothing to do with our bodies. Sometimes we shiver because of our feelings! Why was the baby jalapeno shivering? He was a little chili. Hello Kiddos, this is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard

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So why exactly do knuckles crack? And why do people seem to like cracking them?

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Why Don’t You Laugh When You Tickle Yourself?

The thing about tickling is it’s actually only funny if you’re not expecting it

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Why Do Onions Make You Cry?

Vegetables don’t make you cry? I’ll bet they would if you were chopping onions!

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