Showing posts with label Thunks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thunks. Show all posts
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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?
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
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?
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?
Is there more future or past?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Thunk 17
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Thunks - 17
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