Heather: the holes in Swiss cheese come from gas bubbles. I was going to give you a URL to reference, but it won’t allow URLs in comments. Good topic though, I wanna know more!

- the science of cheese production. for example, how does swiss cheese get those neat little holes?
- the health benefits of chocolate and/or caffiene

i think my ideas should win because they may stimulate consumption of these items, and therefore, the economy. this is a stimulus package i can personally endorse.

And we’ll try to get hundreds of thousands of dollars for surveys in next fiscal year’s budget. This year, that money was blown on bowling (mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10163).