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Showing posts with label Thunks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thunks. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Thunk 37

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert

Thunk 37

If a land has no people, can you call it a 'country'?

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Thunk 35

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert
 
Thunk 35
If you had a billion dollars to spend on humanity, would you use it to eradicate racism or to eradicate malaria?

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Thunk 34

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert


Thunk 34
If you lived in an infinitely large cage, would it still be a cage? (Alternatively, is the Earth a prison?) 

Monday, May 16, 2011

Thunk 33

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert

Thunk 33
Where does a headache go when it goes away?

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Thunk 32

 A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert

Thunk 32
Is a hurricane evil? (An earthquake? A tsunami?)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Thunk 31

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 31:
If you own land, do you own the earth below it and the air and sky above it as well?

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Thunk 30


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 30:
If you can't see, taste, smell, hear, imagine or experience something, then does it exist?

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Thunk 29



A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 29:
Should a person be punished for a wrong they did 60 years ago?

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Thunk 28


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 28:
Are you the same person you were ten years ago?


Friday, October 22, 2010

Thunk 27

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.
Thunk 27:
If science could find a way to transplant your brain into the body of someone named John, would you then be you or John?

Monday, October 11, 2010

Thunk 26


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.
Thunk 26:
If you swear at someone in a language you've just made up, does that count as swearing?

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Thunk 25


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.
Thunk 25:
Is saving an evil and tyrannical dictator worse than killing one?

Friday, September 17, 2010

Thunk 24


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.
Thunk 23:
Is burning a book the same as deleting a digital version of it off your Kindle™ or your laptop?

Monday, September 13, 2010

Thunk 23


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.
Thunk 23:
If you take a toy tiger, bleach away its stripes, and sew a mane on it, will it then be a tiger or a lion?

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Thunk - 22



A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 22:
Can you taste colour?

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Thunk 21

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 21:
If you don't remember a dream, then did you have it?

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Thunk 20


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert. 


Thunk 20: 
If you play chess against a computer and lose, then who or what beat you?

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Thunk - 19

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert. 


Thunk 19: 
Is there more future or past?

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Thunk 17

A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 17:
Can fire be considered to be alive?

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Thunks - 17


A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. © Ian Gilbert.

Thunk 17:
Will Dubai ever be finished and ready?