Finding Questions on our Site

Where on your site can I find the list of all questions (say for the past several months or years)? The list you have now shows only about 10 questions. Your site says: "Did you take a second to search our site to make sure we haven't already answered your question?" Where is the list?
- Anonymous

We have two ways of finding questions.

1) The scroll-down menus list questions by topic. Pretty much no one uses this, although we originally thought it would be the main way people would look around..

2) The "search" function. You use it just as you would any Google search, but it looks only on our site.

Say, for example, you were wondering how the Big Bang could be consistent with energy conservation. You could type "Big Bang energy conservation" into the search engine and see what comes up. I'll try it now. Ten answers come up. The first three are highly relevant. The second in particular has some discussion with further links. Usually this procedure works pretty well. 

Mike W.

p.s. We're planning a big revision in the next few months to make the site more user-friendly.

(published on 01/07/2016)

I don't see scroll down menu! Where is it?Why not just list them historically as you did before. Your list box has only about 10 or so latest questions. Why not include them all.If you included them all in an easily accessible fashion, it will motivate people to scan them. Searching by topic is sometimes difficult since the person does not know what to ask. However, scrolling and scanning all questions is easy since one just reads them and goes on to the next one until they find what they look for. At least this way they get enough clue as to form a keyword to enter in the Search box.
- Anonymous

Thank you for these suggestions. I think they're good. I believe that when our technical experts redesign the site they can be included.

Meanwhile, in the horizontal bar above the questions, you should see the words "Question Categories". Scrolling over them should give you a list of broad categories. Scrolling down that list causes the one you're on to expand to a list of subcategories. Clicking on a subcategory gives you a list of questions in that subcategory. As for how the categories were chosen, it was done by a volunteer in an Aristotelian mood. Although they aren't exactly coherent, no one has ever complained, perhaps because almost no one uses them.  I do think that the search procedure usually works better. For example, if you were interested in "surface tension", you could search for that. You'll get a list of questions, and also one item that's the whole Surface Tension subcategory.

Please keep following up, because your feedback will help us with the new design.

Mike W.

(published on 01/07/2016)