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It’s summertime, and many of you are planning a wonderful vacation. Some are planning exciting activities not far from home, while others are escaping to a foreign country. When you travel to places where you’re not familiar with the language, it may be challenging to get around. Sarah and Veronique, two dedicated QA team members, have joined forces to help answer: What sentences or words do you need to know when traveling to France?

Bon voyage!!

Do you have more French travel questions? Check out our relevant Q&A categories:

• Travel
• French language and culture
• France
• English to French translations

The Answers.com embroidery on our new T-shirts look like this on the inside of the shirt. Some of us have been wondering why it’s like that. We quickly turned to WikiAnswers.com, and here is the answer we found.

In times of economic recession, job interview tips can come in handy. If you want to maximize your interview success, it’s a good idea to hone your interview skills first. There are many helpful resources out there, one of them being WikiAnswers. Its job interviews Q&A category has various tips such as the one we are about to share with you.

Gil Reich (Answers.com’s VP of Product Management) and Pnina Baumgarten (Content Editor), help answer: “What are the worst answers to ‘What is you biggest weakness?’”

In case you’re still hankering for some more ways to shine while showing weakness, check out this one: “How do you answer ‘What is your greatest weakness’ in a job interview?”

More useful categories are:

• Resume writing
• Job search
• Job applications
• Labor and employment law

Some of our questions just can’t be adequately answered in words. So we recruited Answers.com’s IT manager, aka The AnswerMan, to demonstrate novel uses of the common paper clip.

How many more uses can you come up with? Add them to: What can you do with a paper clip?

Note: First attempt at uploading the video showed an audio-video sync problem which led us to look for an answer to the problem: Why is the uploaded Youtube audio-visual sync way off?
We apologize to @WikiAnswers followers who saw multiple tweets about paper clips as we were trying to fix the problem.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines science as: The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. Cool. There are so many interesting things out there that Answers.com went out and got a whole collection of Q&As to explain your scientific conundrums. 

• Physics questions like: Why does a curve ball curve?
• Space questions like: What was the Tunguska Event?
• Earth questions like: How many different kinds of faults have been identified?
• Climate questions like: Is it ever too cold to snow?
• Material questions like: Is glass a solid or a liquid?
• Energy questions like: How does driving speed affect gas mileage for most automobiles?
• Environment questions like: Why did dinosaurs become extinct?
• Biology questions like: What was the first commercial use of genetic engineering?
• Plant questions like: What are luffa sponges?
• Animal questions like: Which is stronger-steel or silk from a spider’s web?
• Human Body questions like: What makes knuckles crack?
• Health questions like: Which disease is the deadliest?
• Measures questions like: Why are the lengths of the seasons not equal?
• Structures questions like: How tall is the figure on the Statue of Liberty, and how much does it weigh?
• Transportation questions like: Where is the black box carried on an airplane?
• Communication questions like: How do submerged submarines communicate? 

Riffle through The Handy Science Answer Book. There are loads of questions to stimulate your scientific mind. Fascinating!