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December 1
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- global warming
- NA code
- Are flaxseed meal's omega-3 fattty acids adversely affected by cooking?
- Underwater/Undersea Colony
- Universe - photon fraction
- Palmistry 2
- Why is that everything seems to be unionized these days?
- Question about bottled water...
- Channel Tunnel
- Why does increased estrogen cause post nasal drip?
- Does spoilt soy milk contain Lactobacillus?
December 2
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- Eyes
- bsurd particle accelerators
- Earliest memories
- type clotting component
- Gear Pumps
- Access To Scientific Journals
- GM Roundup Ready canola gene traits
- Sight and taste
- omponent/vga compatabilty
- The human spleen pore size
December 3
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- Cultivation Theory
- chemical bonding
- Electrical interference
- Looking for an article
- Tuning fork
- 3D Molecules
- Durability of bleach
- nitric oxide
- -deltaG and positive reduction potential
- chrome exploration?
- Conductivity Data
- building a spaceship from scratch
- Mineral Water / Cola Sales
- Carbonated water freezes
- Thomas Kuhn
- Changing an orbit
- Born with No Brain
- Volcanoes
- Router vs. Switch in home networking
- If I took HRT
- gerbil behaviour
- the power of water currents depending on depth
- The Playstation 3
- Mass/Force Distribution
- telescopes
December 4
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- Docking in orbit
- Advanced Motion
- Dots in eye w/o glasses - explaination/image?
- Speed in space
- Phenotypic ratio
- hemistry Molar Question
- Anatomical name for "weenis"
- Fastest Piston Powered Aircraft
- Really quick question
- No of Universe
- Magnetism
- Coeper pair
- tritium
- Oxygen Generation
- decomposition of phosphene
- Cambrian Man - ?
- social psychology
- Fastest piston warplane
- plants
- Electricity Efficiency
- GSM interference with speakers/amplifiers
- Global Warming
- Mass, Volume, or Charge Times Distance
- Fluorescent light with motion sensor
December 5
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- List Of Latin Genus And Species
- human pathogen sizes
- When did Laodicea (or area) discontinue shipments of Collyrium?
- disease/sickness
- Genetic similarity between the sexes
- Red blood cells
- Number of sexes
- blizzard of 1993
- Mosquitos - How they benefit humans and the environment
- Unit
- scientific termn for...
- Helium
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Normal flora
- Cracking Achilles
- Mushrooms
- taking growth hormone, side effects?
- Moon
- Weakness and Numbness to the Leg
- What is science?
- Auto Rickshaw
- predominant power source
- Carbon Dioxide Tax
- Nurses uniforms
- Green Hand-Drying
- Chemistry
- Toothpaste foaming
- How Many Trees?
December 6
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- Discworld's sun
- protien
- Wikipedia
- Old men with young hair
- Optional body parts
- value of voltage in power supply
- glassified nuclear waste
- Salting the earth
- Solar energy
- The Sun
- P.O.E.R.K.W.I.U.
- Silicon in Diode
- Birth Control
- What will humans look like in a billion years time?
December 7
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- Runny nose in cold weather
- Near and Far - The Automobile Rearview Mirror
- Moon
- NAD+ turning into NADH
- Ionosphere page
- Driving behind a truck
- If an 18 wheeler is driving along with the back open, is it windier inside the trailer, or on top?
- Data communication and Network
- the homeostatic nature of skin repair.
- Scooting
- how..................
- tmospheric chemistry units
- Calculating a change in temperature during irreversible adiabatic expansion.
- Magnets
- effect of oil spills on frogs
- High tension transmission
- herbs
- Hypothermia
- CAPITAL PUNISHMENT METHODS
- Looking for the name of a disease
- Weight/force
- Retarded
- D
December 8
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- B Cell Activation
- Musical dyslexia
- Wiki Article 'Antibody' - Activation of complement
- Black hole mystery
- Odd nausea
- The history of constants
- Medical practice in France 1820
- Must I really use "alkaline cells LR6"
- Criminology
- Medicine
- Apollo moon landing hoax theory
- reaction of ammonium sulphate with sodium hydroxide.
- Dark Matter
December 9
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- Nose bleed
- Electromagnetic Radiation Communication Devices
- discovery of rhinovirus
- Amount of indicated substance
- Calories burned
- Temperature of nuclear waste
- Six pack
- What you can learn about LASIK from commercials
- Stains (biology)
- Crossing satellites
- Embryology
- Black holes of different sizes?
- Old images of eyes
- Tryptophan hydroxylase reactivation/reformation
- Paper Parachute
- engine
December 10
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- Temperature Rising
- six pack
- ATP
- Thermostat ?
- alt and Pepper
- Homozygous and Heterozygous mutations
- Chemistry joke.
- dSLR Lenses
- Symptoms of insufficient sleep
- Static electricity?
- Why are mice eyes like black or red beads?
- How was cheese invented when pre-Roman population lactose-intolerant?
- Supplementary prescribing.
- The whale
December 11
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- Antimatter Production
- Vitamin C/citric acid
- horseshoe crabs
- 3 questions
- cannons
- Request for Equivalent Specification
- Surface Tension
- lighting
- Natural Selection theory without 'agency'?
- Human body temperature
- solid state pulsed laser
- What are cleaning erasers made from?
- Sleep apnea and oxygen deficit
- hysics question- building a crane
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December 12
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- Investigating the etymology of the term Backhoe
- That's a very strange comet indeed!
- Particle Accelerators
- drying a log
- Singularity size?
- estimate temp of room
- "a constant-amplitude, constant-frequency sinusoid in channel k should have identical analysis phases in all nearby channels."
- Inventor of the scratchie ticket
- aqueous copper
- Help me prove the Earth (and Universe) is over 5,000 years old
- A mannan-digesting enzyme?
- Guns Fired Into The Air
- Balanced forces
- Miniature nuclear power plant?
- Science Learning Resources
- Depth
- Paint that generates electricity...
- Age of earth
December 13
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- de Broglie / Compton wavelengths
- Serotonin/Melatonin in nightshift workers
- Helium to lift 5kg
- Parallel Line Assay
- Lack of Antigens
- Banyan trees and adventitious roots
December 14
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- Why do faster moving fluids have lower pressure?
- Wind and toilets
- Digital camera shutters
- chest muscles
- William Giaque
- Environment
- canonical partition function
- units
- milk shake
- Conservation of Energy and Rolling a ball down a ramp
- e.coli
- Transmission of communication signal along with high voltage transmission line
- Science question on Miscellaneous Desk
- Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics
- Trick chemistry question.
- tonsilitis
- physics junior cert experiment
- a maths proof
- Metals and Metals
- Dentistry as a separate course
- hat is repsonsible for eye drying that comes with sleepiness?
- Chicken breasts
- Absolutely zero not really that cold?
- bullets from spitfires and hurricanes
- latent heat
December 15
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- Coilgun
- "Sodium Coma"
- Herion OD = 1-10mg Narcan. Cocaine OD = ?
- Steroids and HGH
- alling
- starfish
- Hallucinogens in palliative care?
- Repetition speed for strength exercises- fast or slow
- Withdrawal of Supplies of amitripyline tablets
- earth
- Audio - Centre Channel Extractor on Adobe Audition
- ants
- circumcision and aids
- phosphoric acid as electrolyte
- Gums
- The Temporal Resolution of the Compound Eye
- High temperature nuclear waste repository
- Digitising photos
- Tobacco Addictiveness
- Conjunctivitus
December 16
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- pyramid power
- Explosives
- What sort of apple was this?
- Large intestine
- Natural Resources
- What are opioid relative potencies? to morphine?
- INvestigatory project
- Copper gluconate in breath fresheners
- examples on elasticity,plasticity and brittleness
- Waste water treatment
- Bio-gas
- Wellbutrin & Zyban
- TV reception
- Homologous vs Analogous
- pill identification chart
December 17
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- Blood cells discarded per day
- Valence orbitals
- Kill Mosquito Larvae in a Water Tank
- six pack
- Which kinds of cells undergo cellular respiration?
- SL & XR
- water heater corrosion
- in Reactions
- Digital Extension
- Fish mate
- Parasitic Worm
- Sensitiveish Microphone Advice
- Evil Beth
- Is the (north) polar ice cap floating ?
- Neurologist/Neurosurgeon
December 18
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- trismus &faciculations of upperlimb during menstrual cycle
- Sexual abstinence
- Human Adaptations
- A drop of water in space
- Formation of a comet
- Decaffinated coffee beans
- Drying out silica gel
- Walking
- books
- Video games a cure for ADD?
- Quantum Mechanics
- Weight Fluctuations
- How does panting reduce heat?
- Gargle salty liquid
- How dangerous, if ingested, is shampoo?
- Creation of the VCR internal clock
- Sense of touch
December 20
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- New cochleas
- Sauna questions
- empirical formula
- Text Color
- honey
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- Chemical Reaction
- Evolution question
- lysergic acid diethylamide
- No-op microprocessors
- owner/investor model
- Ions affecting Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Is my daughter being poisoned?
- To Refreeze.. Or not to Refreeze
- Random Question
- Where is the origin/homeland of the Mongol (Chinese) race?
- LD50
- B12
- weight
- Matter
December 21
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- Name this bug
- Pantheon building maintenance ?
- Melons
- tension in a rope
- How can you tell if a gemstone is real?
- Craft
- The darkest hour is just before dawn.
- Water and Sodium Electric Power
- Papular Mucinosis
- Vacuum balloon
- Evolutionary Biology perspectives on Fear of Speaking in Public
- "Stable" Hydrogen?
- EE - Why do fast battery chargers have larger power bricks?
- Listing of AC power cord plugs?
- black holes
- Poseidon
- Solar system and stardust
December 22
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- Electric Kettles
- Why are skis no longer made from wood?
- Textual vs Pictorial Memory
- Water displacement
- Gauss (unit)
- Bromelain, the protease enzyme in pineapple
December 23
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- Motorway building
- Battery Producing Two Voltages Simultaneously?
- Kettle Boil Off
- Brightest Bulb On 12v At Low Cost
- Correlation
- HOW TO find a PDF copy of the book?
- Casino Royale Poison
- Estimating backup time of a electric backup power device
- Faraday Cage Use In Security
- Why quarantine astronauts?
- Critical criteria for human life...?
- nyone got a manometer?
- resultant forces
- Ear remedy for loud bang
- Capacitor Calculations
- Blood color ?
- Medicine books
- Searching for a way of contacting Neurosurgeon Yasargil and his Swiss Surgeon Team
- Flower blossom
- Normal hearing and perforated eardrum
- Give The Focal Length Game!
- hat is that green stuff inside grasshoppers when you squish them?
- How to write elements
- Sexual Safety
- Rider question
- Things that go bang
- elium crisis
December 24
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- Observation whilst feeding the gulls...
- cognitive intelligence - name for the occurrence of role reversal between subject and object in test situation.
- ged whiskey
- Dominant genes?
- monoline roots
- Perfect Hurricane
- Squeeze Those LEDSs!
- One Device. One Non-rotating Speaker. 360 Degrees
- Reading in the Dark
- Custard Bread?
- Infrared Filters
- Immitation compulsion
- Fluorescent light is dead...
- Lips
- Why is the neutron more massive than the proton?
December 25
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- IR Transmissibility Of Materials
- The jagged things in a dog's mouth
- Different tastes of bottled water
- Heavy water production
- lasers
- Methadone
- Lizard speed indicative of dinosaur speed...?
- THE BRAIN
- Evolution versus Creation...?
- Usefulness of solubility
- Calculating voltage
- This equation describes... what?
December 26
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- Orbit of a particle
- How to seep and steep herbal teas and remedies
- Budgie video on YouTube
- Capacitance of batteries.- its a hard one this!
- Riskiness Rankings
- electroscope
- Eyes
- Friction
- Physics
- orth Atlantic oscillation
- Squirrels
- Cation and anions
- lassification of an amoeba
- Bacteria in the Intestines
- Paternal Age
December 27
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- Lack of Visual 'Imagination'
- Is red and pink coral illegal in Canada?
- skins compression clothing
- muscles
- Science name
- What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times)
- What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times) - PART 2
- Lipitor and grapefruit
- Nuclear war
- Tracking of dynamically-changing objects on TV
- Fatty Acid Enzymes
- What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times) - PART 2
- Trans fat question
- instrument for measuring an orifice diameter
December 28
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- adhesives
- Transformation of energy
- Electronics: IC that will take a 0-5V analog input and output a 0-100% PWM
- Ear infection
- Birds' hearing
- Futuristic Glass Touch Sensor
- Super Duper Bright LEDs
- Carbon nanotube
- Suicidal animals
- wearing rubber gloves
- Why does chalk cause fever?
- Soret band? yes/no
- Painful but nonlethal stabbing
- Suffering from exposure to Frost, cold and water
- On the sun...
- Is there really any difference between "friction" and "collision"
- Faster-than-light aspects
- stream velocities for Red River (USA)
- Egg shells
December 29
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- Relativity of light
- DAD in hydrology
- Running muscle
- what seems cheaper, $9.99 or $10
- Color Changing Glass
- ndentation marks
- WATER GOING BANG!
- query (Fullform of Rx ?)
- Unknown reptile eggs
- buses
- 2 questions
- time interval
- Focusing the sun's rays through a giant orbital lens?
December 30
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- Vegetarians and Meat
- fluorescent tubes
- Vomiting reaction to endives in children
- Stem cells
- Tarantula found in San Francisco Bay Area
- Lightsabers?
- immunology
- Spinning and orbiting
- EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
- retrovirus and telomerase
- British broad-based cloud physicist Frank Ludlam
- Veg food
- North Star
- RBMK
- Aerogel properties
- Snowfall and Sir Isaac Newton
December 31
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- Seeing the Moon in the morning
- Ju 52
- not logged in message?
- Silence
- Harry Potter and the Deadly Elbows
- Birds hopping and walking
- Antibiotics
- NaF
- Instant unconciousness from long-drop hanging?