Everyday Mysteries as Research Agenda

Short lists of common, unresolved phenomena (e.g., why sleep exists, why glass forms as it does, how turbulence initiates) can serve as a low‑friction public inventory to guide research funding and experimental effort. Framing such a list publicly highlights where experimental data are lacking and invites both conventional labs and AI‑driven approaches to target tractable, high‑impact problems. — If policymakers and funders treat everyday unexplained phenomena as a coherent agenda, it would reorient science policy toward problems that are visible to citizens and likely to yield broad social and technological payoffs.