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Mailbag #1 — Wait But Why

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Tim answers 46 reader questions about almost everything.

Welcome to a new Wait But Why thing: the mailbag. I get a lot of email from readers asking great questions, and there’s just not time to give most of them a proper answer. Unless, of course, I do a full post dedicated to those questions. So that’s what this is. When the last post went out, I asked our email subscribers to submit mailbag questions, and a lot of you responded. I can group the responses that came in into two categories: 1) Questions whose answers would be somewhere between one sentence and a few paragraphs 2) Questions whose answers would be somewhere between a few paragraphs and

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