Frontiers of science

The following questions were collected over the last ten years by University of Portland professor Terry Favero, who begins his human-biology course each week by accepting written science questions from his students.

How can you make a hickey heal faster?

If you wear a hat too much will you go bald?

Why are zits different colors?

Why do some people laugh louder than others?

If you lost one ovary but the other one was healthy, would you only ovulate and menstruate every other month?

Can you die from getting your nose pushed back into your brain?

Why are boogers green when you are sick?

What’s the deal with wisdom teeth?

Why do tattoos fade to blue?

If you accidentally swallow tobacco can you get a cancerous growth in your stomach?

How come I look like my grandmother?

Can you get someone else’s DNA from a bone-marrow transplant?

How do you get hunched over when you’re old?

Are boobs just mostly fat?

Why when you laugh sometimes does the back of your head hurt?

Why does the hair on my legs grow unevenly?

Does smoking lower one’s voice?

If someone drank a bottle of Liquid-Plumr what part of the body would dissolve first?

Is it true that if you swallow tobacco you will kill the parasites in your stomach?

Why don’t men shave their underarm hair?

What is the purpose of lips?

I saw this Clint Eastwood movie where this bad guy took this good guy and laid him out in the sun and sewed his eyelids open. What would happen to the guy’s eyeballs? Would they dry up and fall out?

Why do bruises change colors?

Why are college students so preoccupied with sex?

Do fetuses burp?

Why do you get all pruney when you stay in the tub too long?

Why do babies drool?

Is déjà vu a brain function?

When a kidney is removed, what happens to the empty space?

Can men be affected by a menstrual cycle?

Why when I’m nervous around a cute guy does my head get such a rush that I feel faint and seriously find it difficult to think straight?

Is there any prevention from growing those

ugly ear hairs like my dad has?

Is a beer belly really caused by beer?

Can you be addicted to soda pop?

Why do we have fingerprints?

Can the stomach actually explode?

Why do we get dark circles under our eyes when we are tired?

If you chew on candy and then spit it out do you still get calories?

Why do we have eyebrows?

Why do we dream?

Why do we have earwax?

If you stand on your head for three days will your head explode?

How do these thigh creams work?

Do blind people see in their dreams?

I heard that lasers work on kidney stones to break them up. How does this work? Or is this just another sick joke Matt told me?

If you cut off your ears could you still hear?

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