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November 1
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- Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
- A question about the lead section for the article quantum state
- Is it possible to heat granite by using dielectric- or induction heating ..?
- Magnetic field vs various computer parts
- Does flashing 12:00 damage the display
- Batch image merge (microscopy software question?)
- Is there any known plant that is pollinated by the predators of its parasites?
- "Hurricane" vs "Post-Tropical 'Super Storm'"
- Slowing neutrinos
- Sun's magnetic field
- Capacitor charging question
- spiders
- Question regarding the conversion of one Tesla to one Earth atmosphere
- Is there a name for "hating forks aiming for someone"?
November 2
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- Gravitational collapse
- Avalanche rescue
- Mushrooms and mycelium
- 3d tracking tic-tacs
- Heat transfer and temperature
- people mover using air pressure
- Ball point pens and pull-cord light switches
- Fat soluble medicine
- Why does a dead body float on water ?
- Cell Biology
November 3
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- Time is an illusion
- A tidal dam for New York?
- The best enzymes for ligating DNA:
- How would you do this?
- Inoperability of back-of-neck skin?
- Ko's
- I have a semi precious stone and I want to know what it is.
- What is it the
- Gravitational potential energy
- Maximum Age for Becoming a Father
November 4
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- Syria Rebels
- Oxidative stress and immune system
- Black holes at the speed of light
- So why is the nootropic market kind of small?
- engine diagram
- Confusion about how telescopes work
- Light slow motion
November 5
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November 6
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- Dichromacy and Trichromacy colorblind
- Reason why we don't fall through the floor
- People talking alone
- Nature of sound
- protons
- Worried to death?
- how to be more powerful (literally, not philosophically)
- Air quality in Prometheus
- Alcoholism - Biological process
- Death determination in Sherlock Holmes
- Cloning in animals Vs. plants
- American Bison Furs
- What is a major disadvantage of PCR compared with in-vitro replication?
- Science fiction question regarding physics
- Mixing Oort clouds
- IQ/social group
- Tipler Cylinder
- Does a full moon cause higher tides, and if so, how much higher?
November 7
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- Making eggs on an industrial scale
- The Sun
- about electron configuration
- What about sound in vacuum ?
- Hover
- G-Force
- Generating energy without losing fuel
- Who created this picture of the thermoscope?
November 8
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- Melatonin
- Proposed Essay on zealotry and non-science
- Law of Conservation of Energy
- Jeuming tree
- Please help a new owner of a United Motors Matrix 150 motor-scooter?
- Process, Protuberance, Condyle
- Is global warming necessarily bad for us?
- Perfect circles
- Could dark matter be individual quarks?
November 9
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- Antimatter meteor/comet
- Lead poisoning
- What was the purpose of the Galileo thermoscope
- Converting candela per square metre to "photon density"
- Deer
November 10
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- where do new layers of earth come from
- Twin follicles in horses
- Cycling drugs
- How would {100} monocrystalline semiconductor grade silicon be made using common materials and no specialized machinery?
- Radiation from wifi
- Abiogenesis
- Genetics question
November 11
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- Could you collect all the CO2 that a vehicle emits?
- If something "increases dopamine receptor sensitivity", is that good or bad?
- Liquifying francium
- Would dogfighting spacecraft need to bank when turning?
- Bicycle wheel question
- Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
- Good physics simulation sandbox?
- Psychology
- Self-help books
- Behavior while drunk/under the influence
- Colour black
November 12
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- Size of Eliminated Dendritic Spines
- IQ and artists
- Do we have any substances or pills that are the opposite of anti-depressants?
- Transmission of radioactive and electromagnetic rays through glass
- square ring falling through magnetic field
- Mil Mi-24
- What is "matter" according to modern physics?
- Getting a given wavelength radio signal given an antenna with real-world constraints
- Long time effect of drugs
- Evidence of filamentation of the milky way
- plastic PE discoloration
- cornstarch and water experiment
- Off label use of drugs
November 13
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- my camera for my experiment recorded video with a 0.80x resampling factor. When calculating centripetal acceleration and curvature, how do I scale?
- Chemistry problem
- Momentum
- "Do You Feel Like An Insider Or Outsider?"
- electrons and time-varying electric fields
- 0.45 vs 0.2 micron filters (for life sciences)
- Dyson sphere - "Gravity"
- Fatigue=drunkenness?
- Why are flat screens not flexible?
November 14
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- Observation in quantum mechanics
- Perfect number
- Heat energy vs thermal energy
- Vitamin D
- Forest fire vs candle flame
- Parrot Drone or Quadrotor
- chemical / molecular cross-section
- this is what is the compuound of Splenda, sugar and cloro form this, can we understand if it is a natural usefull compound for the human body?
- Artificial 2-toned lobsters
- Named particles?
- gravity = side effect of vacuum?
- A question on economics.
November 15
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- the material rising in the thermoscope thermometer
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Recharging smartphone
- Doppler effect: two moving objects at an angle
- Origin of the Nebraska sand hills
- Bok choy is the same species as the common turnip, really? It resembles nothing like a turnip
November 16
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- lepton
- W and Z bosons
- How's this bird called?
- Curiosity image
- Is natural folate metabolized to 5-MeTHF?
- What happens to the brains of the enlightened?
- Sleep more to grow more
- Acceleration and time dilation
- Neurons in the cochlear nuclei
November 17
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- Two problems involving angular motion
- civil engineering related
- if the eye changes focal length to focus on an object, why isn't our visual perception like a zoom lens?
November 18
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- Where is the Heisenberg cut article?
- Voltage across an inductor
- URGENT INFO NEEDED
- When did dark energy start to dominate?
- What happens if someone were to be struck by something like the Oh-My-God particle?
- The Philippines and total plastic bag bans (again)
- Electroshocking people
- How many people are dying in Gaza?
- Asbestos in the WTC
- Lump of fat close to the heart — in roe deer in the winter season — What is it called?
November 19
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- manual lenses in bridge cameras
- pneumonia survival rates
- Element transmutation
- Is this a fallacy? Classifying people from a psychological perspective
- Impact depth
- Iron Dome
- Universal milling machine or turret milling machine....
November 20
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- What's the solution to Haldane's dilemma?
- Bear pig
- How can I separate mixture of water and ammonia?
- 9th period
- How much more diverse would the species be if we hadn't gone through the Toba catastrophe?
- free electrons per atom
- heat capacity of a plasma
- Isolated systems
- Fuel consumption of engines
- Momentum transfers
- Recycling 10, 20, or 30 year old paper
- Area of land required to feed working horses on arable farm
November 21
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- Automated mini boats
- Pork v Chicken
- Why don't they just test if cellphones actually do cause interferences in airplanes?
- Dot matrix printing on irregular surfaces
- Why are space probes so slow?
- Vitamin K
- LED bulb
- UN hypocritical
- Broadleaf Evergreen Tree Identification
- Custom weather warnings for UK?
November 22
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- Freshwater Aquarium Parasites and Human Reactions
- Robotic Armor
- Atomic/molecular blades
- Angler fish raised in aquaculture farms ?
- Clinical Significance of Spike Frequency Adaptation
- Fears and placebo
- Is chemotherapy only against cancer?
November 23
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- Ammo weight
- E-boats
- TQ
- What to do with this image
- Vehicle propulsion name?
- Beryllium
- Diet Related to Mental Decline
- Change in real mass or not
- Diamond plate armor
- What peak pressure from a explosion in joule and required ground depth?
- Gunshot
November 24
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- Women nagging from a scientific or psychological point of view
- Newton's Second Law
- Mayans
- What is this formula depicting?
- "chocolate is packed full of glucose"
- Drive shaft feature identification
- Why is the equator not a large desert?
- Human humerus
- Sensor Array http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Sensor_array
- micro wave shielding methods and materials
- What is the current energy usage of the Internet
November 25
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- A question in biology of Retroviruses (physiology and ecology)
- Plant identification in opening credits of Downton Abbey
- Question about subwoofers
- Background photon emissions
- Did the aborigines use dingoes as hunting dogs?
- Final angular velocity after combining two disks
- Gas bubbles on side of plastic container filled by chlorinated water
- Is being HIV positive comparable to have diabetes?
November 26
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- stereo amplifier output impedance
- Which caulking should I use?
- Power spectral density of speech
- relativistic kinematics: the solar sail
- HIGGS BOSON
- V-1 flying bomb
- Insect
- Reason for type of emotional response to music and poetry
- Common emotional response to specific colors
- 100% electric spacecraft engines
- Length contraction
- average intensity of three vibrations on a string of constant frequency and individual amplitude, but random phase of pi or 0
November 27
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- forest extent in very ancient India
- Problems about determine habitable zone in 7.5 billion year future sun
- Neutron binding
- Diamond (thought experiments)
- Hassocene
- walking vs running
- Mattress pad science
- Can separate universes be causally connected?
- Is a covalent bond a cooper pair or a magnetic link?
- Direct Evidence Against Sodium Channel Inactivation in Spike Frequency Adaptation
- Bombarding proton with neutron
- Stability of neutron and proton
- Why poisoning with 210Polonium?
November 28
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- Bathing
- Fluoroauric acid
- Did Carl Sagan know the intended use of his calculations and still willingly participate?
- Harold White / NASA research on warp drive
- Size of bubbles in weightlessness
- Cooling of Air-cooled engines
November 29
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- Where do drug names come from?
- The Mechanism of Coldness and sore throat ?
- Computer in Matrix movies
- Excipients and generics
- electronic multivibrator repetion rate
- Unidentified Bird in Neighbours
- On line degree of medical science