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February 1
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- How delicate is the universe?
- How much would an outside observer (an alien scientist, if you like) be able to determine about life on Earth as a whole...
- explanation on tensors
- books on physics theories
- Hey, how do they know they've discovered methane (tm?) gas on Mars?
- Clearing Brush
- About the cooling and heating of the air as an affect of clouds
- what is the detail standard of MS20995AB32 or NASM20995AB32
- Clones and lung problems
- Day with the most number of deaths
- information in Dutch about Cryptosporidium parvum
- Should my adam's apple be perfectly symmetrical?
- Sound in Water
- Setting up a temporary "cleanroom" at home
- Identify plant?
- what are the best arguments for there being no objective truth?
- Electron configurations
- Gaur image
- Testing for air tightness
February 2
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- Blood tests
- Snow fleas
- Dwarfism due to gas attack?
- Wind powered
- do insects have kidneys?
- Do not expose to direct sunlight
- wind power
- People who "Don't like music"
- Earthing
- Would lens flares ever have motion blur?
- [medical Q] identify a tool
- Black dwarf sun and planets drfiting
February 3
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- Front and back
- Breeding budgies and cockatiels
- Antidepressent
- Brain wave crosstalk
- Islam ... previous article
- Map projection where area is proportional to a statistic
- What the weather feels like
- Which is more prestigious as an honour;FBA or FRS
- Protein Supplements in diet
- Boolean logic
- Gluing MDF
- Space
- Electric motor speed
- Photons having momentum
- How long will it take to go to Mars?
- Melting tarseal
- Bathymetry
February 4
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- Speed of light, sound
- Time Travel and Fate
- Isaac Newton's scientific fraud
- Breast enhancement scams
- Free will doesn't exist
- A hell of a question...
- Showing CO2 => global warming in a lab
- Effect of snow on rails
- Bird on wire not getting zapped
February 5
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- Prism's and white LED's.
- Sinkholes - Geology
- Science related to Neuorlogy
- Calculating Molality
- Chemical Content
- Alkali = ?
- Membership of American Academy of Arts and Sciences as compared to Royal Society
- Parallel Universes
- English language
- Cork taint
- "drawing" letters and words by moving your eyes
- Wine aging
- mass-energy equation
- Water flouridation and the crank estate
- Life without plants
- Eggs in candleflames
- Homeopathic medicine
February 6
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- Is there a problem if a blood sample for indirect coombs test was taken on EDTA not serum tube?if so,what should I do if I can not reach the patient?
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Absolute velocity in SR vs. GR
- Electrical variation on chicken and egg problem
- Robert Millikan and the Oil Drop.
- Was evolution first described by Islamic scientists much before Darwin
- Voice-to-computer device
- Feed the lions
- Oldest ice ?
- Euthanizing turtles
- Corn for sugar? Why not apples?
- Rock salt on the ice
- Chemical element
- Ants
- Immunisation through constant exposure
- Electrons and magnets and monopoles
February 7
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- Red Alert!
- Greed not genetic?
- heavy menstrual cycle
- Colour vision
- So, like, ...what's been happenin in science lately?
- And when are they gonna update the periodic table!?
- Radioactive Decay/Bombardment
- Solid when warm, liquid when cold
- Mater to Energy conversion (Moved from [http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing&action=edit§ion=52 Reference_desk/Computing]
- Move Earth rocks to Mars
- These Questions are doing my head in
- Pancreatic Cancer
February 8
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- Where can I find information about NLP?
- effect of pulse polio programme on scheduled vaccinations!
- Colour of the Sun
- Sleep
- what is a time that is CERTAINLY too short for a person to displacce their hand by 1 meter ?
- tips to enthuse proto-computer scientists
- TV Noise
February 9
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- Decomposition of Styrofoam and Plastics
- is there a difference between: 1) water that has been frozen + melted 2) water that never was frozen?
- UFOs
- Philosophical differences between Ayurvedic and Unani medicine
- Why are black people better dancers/athletes?
- Instruments that don't start at zero
- deflection
- Frequency of Earthquake Waves
- Swarf
- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
- Anaerobe anatomy
- stem cells
- Alprazolam vs. Diazepam
February 10
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- How come this image says that the galaxy is impossible?
- why are branched hydrocarbons more thermodynamically stable than unbranched ones?
- Genetic Modification potato
- Curious shadow over Moon - cloud, or not?
- Medically qualified people with main contribution in physicsmathematics
- Why is the death toll so high in the 2009 Victorian bushfires ?
- Be a good egg and answer this Q...
- do French and United Kingdom has same watts plugs?
February 11
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- Magnetic perpetual machine
- how to make a magnet
- A medical emergency that could lead to a diagnosis of anemia
- Engine silencer
- Missile range
- Degree of Relatedness
- Will Ultraviolet A or B rays kill the vibrio cholerae bacteria?
- Was William Harvey realy the first person to describe blood circulation?
- CIVIL ENGINEERING
- what happens in the fractioning column (in the lab) as ethanol-water mixture boils?
- Wireless invention;Bose or Marconi!
- Migraines and Auras
- Eyeglass prescription
- Checking that loading of wells in SDS PAGE is comparable or whatever
- mirror paint?
- CO detector going off
- Metamorphosis
February 12
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- First Ionization Energy
- Real D glassess
- milky way in the sky
- What is the largest academic journal in the world
- Authoritative anatomy terminology
- Darwin mechanism of evolution?
- Bodyhair
- Cognation Memory
- Same-sex gametes combining to form a zygote?
- universe expanding
- will my clothes rot / otherwise become damaged if I leave them unwashed for a few weeks?
- Uranus and Saturn's gravity
- what is Steve Baker's IQ? Why does he know so much?
February 13
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- Post-It Note adhesive Thickness
- Tesla, Edison, Einstein and Asperger syndrome.
- comb attracting little pieces of paper
- Syndrome or Disorder?
- asexual reproduction
- Fingerprints
- Snowflake symmetry
- Was Banting really the first to discover insulin?
- Freemartin
- Faster-than-light communication idea
- PROPELLER ENGINE VS JET ENGINE AT HIGHER ALTITUDE
- 2009 satellite collision relative velocities
- Have scientists tried mixing every combination of chemicals, elements, etc. together?
- Imagination "like becoming someone else" to some people?
- Error measurement question
- Isaac Asimov quote on the fractal nature of discovery
February 14
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- Questions about catnip
- Neanderthals, Humans and Chimps
- Scientific name
- Mental illness and "colorful" writing
- Is there any way to repair a cracked DVD?
- so cola is TERRIBLE for your teeth. Does swishing with water immediately afterwards help?
- Verifying that a CO detector works
- Mysterious Dead
- How fair is a coin?
- Energy vs mass
- Runaway propeller
- Can we create giant insects like those that lived during the Carboniferous period?
February 15
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- How do I genetically engineer the world's best sports team?
- speeding up human gestitation
- Yellow Sodium Light
- science/geology---tides!!!
- ENGINEER'S HELP NEEDED
- Is there any Green Agency at India
- Past weather data
- For specialist only...!
- is it a coincedence too
- Question about the nature of the expanding universe
- Boiling to Death
- Cream Smell
- The night sky
February 16
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- Time
- When does 12 a.m. mean noon?
- Academia at present
- quantum mechanics(a particle in box)
- Terpenes
- Vision, light pollution, and the Milky Way
- hydroponics
- sudden freezing
- Water freezing up in an ice cube tray
- Percent of people infected by the "common cold" each year in US
- Sex hormones in ham?
- New colours
February 17
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- New colors...Editing Break
- CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram equivalent tending towards black
- Matter and Anti-Matter creation from energy
- protein to build muscle mass
- Most complex formula in Physics
- Microsoft Office Live Workplace for Linux users
- Liquid density
- Event horizon and neutron star crushing question
- Nuclear submarine crash
- The road to Xibalba
- Health: green tea leaves v. cabbage leaves
- Gold in volcano
- sort of alchemy
- Why is there a high concentration of catalase in the liver?
February 18
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- Hodgkin's lymphoma and GHB?
- Ionic Strength: am I doing it right?
- Voltaic pile chemistry
- Bacterial illness
- Al Jazir, Ancient Engineer?
- Clarification required
- Electron composition
- RadioShack Weather Stations
- Is there any scientific evidence backing 9/11 conspiracy theories?
- Speculation on Glaucoma and HSV
- Is it a coincedence 2... ?
- conservation of energy
- Adenoidectomy
- The tip of a laser beam
- Why did doctors administer calomel and bleeding in the 18th and 19th century?
- Purple Orange
February 19
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- xkcd science reference
- Boyle's Law
- Eyes wide shut?
- Weight Scales
- Aristotelian perfect heavens and Galileo
- Grooves (archaeology)
- Apple juice
- Coffee and brain
- Time travel survival
- Basics
- Linear Variable Differential Transformer
- Squirting Orgasm
- Blue supergiant
- Does shaking bus indicate particular type of drive train?
February 20
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- Bouyancy
- Energy transfere
- Does electricity move with inertia?
- A Few ?s...
- Archimedes' Law
- Most [http://www.wordnet-online.com/temperate.shtml temperate] city?
- Dates Before Christ?
- Why did more colds develop into pneumonia in years past?
- Lancet reputation
- limitation of human understanding
- economy crises
- Chemisty Question - Silicone oil
- Cleaning anitfreeze ethylene glycol off concrete
February 21
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- moving charges
- by what year is the amazon rainforest expected to be completely logged/destroyed?
- Did Ross actually deserve his Nobel in 1902?
- Scientists with distinguished contribution to literature
- Hybrid eclipse: both annular and total at the same place?
- derivation of e = mc squared
- what is "Vital fluorescent staining" ?
- Hypothetical lifeforms on earth
- Why does the iris have a colour?
- Dysfunction in the instinct of nature
- Burns
February 22
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- Cardinal repeatedly flies into window
- Gold
- "Audible Drugs"
- Bubble´s prediction
- electrical conductivity
February 23
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- Red Hot Ice Cube
- Oil Platforms
- battery life in laptops
- Edison,Tesla spat cost them a Nobel !!!
- Manual gear
- increase of relative mass
- wood - properties
- Spread of Disease from America to the Old World
- "... Irradiated the world's supply of steel"? Clarify?
- How can I depigment hair extensions??
February 24
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- Measuring digits
- The atmosphere on comet Lulin
- Requirements for being published in Science Mag: Policy Forum
- Amoebas and White Blood Cells
- Photosynthesis
- low radiation
- Latent index and manifest index (in psychology)
- Ripen my mango
- adrenal and gonadal androgen
- Scientist head of states!
- a pill i found
- Singapore history
- Wave equation
- Band-stop filters
- Conservation of mass
- Ketonuria caused by a high protein diet.
- Tiny Springs
- Botany of antractica
- Sexuality being decided?
- DC power supplies in parallel/series
- hydrodynamic and aerodynamic
- Water Hammer Arrestor
February 25
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- Pipe noise
- Silver nitrate storage
- high electric tension
- Could someone with CIPA still die from a chest stab?
- Colors of noise images?
- Is (or was) Antarctica really a single continent?
February 26
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- Mousetraps
- Constituents of InkJet Printer Ink
- Particles or waves in radiation
- water
- Largest open-shelf library
- Free university
- derivation of lorentz transformation
- Milky way part two
- opened bottled water shelf life
- television
- Einsteins prediction regarding the "weak force"
- Bad medical terms give me high blood pressure...
- "Treatment" for Aspergers Syndrome?
- Validity of Wikipedia
February 27
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- can hydrostatic testing damage household pipes?
- Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
- Psychological effects of norepinephrine
- I hope this Q doesn't put you to sleep...
- Anybody is answering it?????
- wavefunction in quantum mechanics
- Rear Axle
- Rear Axle rework
- Moth question
- Glutathione
- How to compare more than 5 products at biocompare.com
- Homo sapiens
- Bornholms Disease
February 28
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- Using neutrinos for communication
- Observation of a mysterious psychological phenomenon
- contradiction between lorentz transformation and length contraction
- current even not grounded
- Diagnosing asthma in children
- Why all the various notations for wavelength and frequency?
- Characteristic time scale for rotational motion.
- Hormones and neurotransmitters
- soda ash clairification
- Why Are People So Stupid?
- Stone-age axe-head factory.