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March 1
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- Scientocracy
- nuclear versus fossil
- star composition
- Why not take from the sun?
- Three (or more)-particle annihilation events
- Native American Height
- Re: The Seinfeld Junior Mints episode
- Citric acid
- Semantic web
- LCD Clocks and Plasma Balls
- Line between species
- water
- blatter infections and pregnancy
- Colder after chewing gum
- Malitol
- Exorcists after "the Exorcist"
- TV color
March 2
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- Solving a simplified 1-D time-independent Schrodinger-esque equation
- Long legged wasps
- Coreinae - Insect families/tribes
- Speckled Bear vs. Spectacled Bear
- magnetic field
- Change Simulink Algebric Loop Solver Props
- plasma
- Male and female human voices
- Super-fast spaceship
- Are chickens intelligent enough to suffer?
- thermoelectric generators
March 3
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- salt peter
- brine shrimps
- Why would anyone use a pH meter instead of an indicator for acid-base titrations?
- Rate of freezing vs temperature
- Night Purge Ventilation
- general principles of pharmacy technician practice
- Why bring eggs to room temperature?
- Sexuality of Hedgehogs
- inhaling
- String theory
- mass/weight question
- Science for Dummies website
- Turbulent gas
- Traffic
- Nothing but the tooth
- Fire drills
- Is there a type of Bee/Wasp/Hornet that doesn't have a stinger?
- anti-gravaton beam
- theory of relativity
- Antimatter
- Sunlight
- cause of exponential expansion of the universe
- artificial intelligence
- anti-gravity and any violent explosion
- What is leaching?
- Reversing entropy
- Warp Drive
March 4
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- In-text and Reference Citation for websites and textbooks
- euthanasia
- Vectors
- Who can make the definition of "Space" understandable to users with a high-school education?
- Inverted crater on Mars
- American Cat Scans
- Compressing Water
- What type of medical specialist does this?
- Plasma
- Sun size
- Highway-side notches
- Popcorn
- How intelligent are beavers
- PAD vs PADI (peptidylarginine deiminase)
- Unknown beetle that looks like a large ladybug
- Is there any life on the planet Earth?
- Council house with air conditioning
- energy from earth's rotation
- acidosis
- zoonoses from dogs
- Queen bee naughty bits
March 5
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- Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts (cont.)
- What does the integral of the position function represent?
- Sun
- Thinking brain?
- Goedel and Wikipedia
- do we benefit in any way from c?
- Entropy
- panda
- Who's the best when nature calls?
- Microbial locomotion time
- 120 volt equipment
- Matter
- Ant
- Species upper limit?
- relationship between entropy in physics and entropy in information science?
- Any known planets with satellites with satellites?
- Telescopes
- OTC Cryogenics to treat warts or moles
- 120v v. 240v
- Genus name
- A little confusion concerning E=mc^2
- Protein architecture, motif, domain, fold, topology.
- Positive and negative features of CATH and SCOP
- Atoms
- Anthropophobia?
- Changed the earth's axis??
- voltage
March 6
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- Genetics and cousins
- red shift versus blue shift
- red shift and blue shift for objects in the Universe
- Freeze data outside U.S.
- Static electricity damage
- Relativity
- Circular DNA
- Surviving in a Vacuum
- Space question
- Orders of magnitude (voltage) help.
- Uncommon features of a protein
- perfect circle
- Convergent evolution
- Appropriate Technology Film
March 7
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- Saturn and Jupiter
- classifying reaction?
- star birth, life,and death equation and graph
- Life expectancy
- Temperature of outer space
- mind waves
- Corrosion of copper
- Cow pats
- pus-like sinus stuff
- Pineapple
- Oldest survival animal species?
- Extra Life expectancy for the health-concious
- Telescope
- Intron question
- Carbon planets
- Brain calories
- Single source for printed label nutrition data and all or most UPC/PLC codes
- In-text citation and reference for textbooks and websites in scientific journals
- Cyborgs
- F-ATPase
- measurement for light
- Disulfide bond connecting two adjacent helices not connected by a loop/turn
- Talking parrots
- Chicken butt
March 8
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- Scientific journals
- Colour of glass
- The Lions
- bombardment of hydrogen isotopes with neutrons
- Can persistent high blood pressure be someone's fault?
- menstrual period information
- Orbit
- Why is hunger so mild?
- An interesting website
- menstrual period correlation with Metonic and other lunar cycles
- scientists
- gravity versus electromagnetic forces
- Lorentz transformations
- about thrusters used in the spacecrafts
- Happiness
- Artificial diamond
- What is meant by decreasing the "vacuum"???
- Seasonal fruits
- English name of an object
- Charting unknown part of space
- adaptaion of bones to our environment
- Truth or myth about rebuilding the brain?
- So how did we all get here in the first place?
- White Sussex hen
March 9
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- Yellow hands
- plastic? it breaks weird
- plant growing
- price wiki
- Name of an "larva"
- Mobile phones on airplanes
- Half life zpe device for book
- nuclear power station sites
- What's the average amount of caffeine in a single medium roasted coffee bean?
- Convert to mhtml
- Black is black?
- magnetic field
- Reaction type
- Lorentz dilation?
- Nomogram construction
- Properties of metals
March 10
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- crazy raccoon
- slouching
- Minkowski Diagram
- chrome sink
- Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
- weather
- Bubbles
- Structure of the earth
- Biogas from plant and animal waste
- Heating through air resistance
- Nanomaterials
- (Arabic question)
- Prices of some raw materials
- Dehydrated people
- is it possible to express matter in the form of sound?
March 11
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- Spinach and strength
- Fluorescence in polar and nonpolar environments
- nitrile gloves
- advances needed to truly democratize the Internet?
- Cooking oatmeal
- expansion of the universe
- nuclear candle
- Shielding against Electro magnetic induction
- Birds fall out of the sky?
- Pressure in a liquid
- Boiling water
- Temperature of Diet Coke
- Fermi problem: neurons vs. transistors
- Free Particle
- Too much Potassium in diet
- Chemical compounds with many elements
- Addicts - do they prefer to be cured?
- Mix 'n' Match genetic sequencing
March 12
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- Looking for a bird
- Reflex subwoofer query
- Likely outcome of an all-out thermonuclear war between the US and Russia at the height of their nuclear capabilities?
- csi
- orbit of moon
- is there intelligent sleep like beauty sleep?
- Lorentz invariant
- do you retain information better if you sleep on it?
- center of mass
- Deriving the Lorentz transformations
- tidal forces
- Animals that feed only on animals of their own kind
- Terminal cancer
- lab rats
- galactic spiral arms
March 13
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- Sodium bicarbonate
- The mass of a singularity
- the frog still alive
- Was there sex in the biosphere?
- Cylindrical Fuels rods??any
- MATERIALS USED IN BATHROOMS
- is it possible to boil water through the power of the mind alone?
- Radio waves
- acid reflux
- Feigning death drug
March 14
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- Is it possible to cause a prolonged temperature increase (eben a small one) in the skull just through mental activity?
- A silly question
- Brain acceleration?
- Temperature of a high-gravity planet?
- Is Chrysler 300 equiped with brake override system?
- Marine Creatures
- Methane
- How can i analyse......subject
- barbs
- Moments in space
- A simple Buffer Question
- no longer on speaking terms
- Drainage Systems in New York State
- Fission Reactors
- is it possible to detect, at a distance the power of the mind?
- egg sexer or egg sexing
March 15
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- "Survival of the fittest"
- Applications of Quantum Electrodynamics
- interstitial defects in ice
- Ammonium chloride as a Korean condiment?
- Oddball coordinates/geolocation
- gsp
- Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video
- Feeding stick insects
- the 80s
- suicide
- A.I. Apollo Program
- Sneezing and hair length
March 16
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- 3,3-Dimethylmalic acid
- Squirrel identification
- Compression of purely digitally animated films
- a question about light
- Scientific results on animal telepathy?
- Treadmill vs uphill
- Psychological tests, job interviews
- Photon
- Economical preference gene?
- Noise in MRI scan
- Avocado pit use and safety
- Programmable food
- "Te voy a llevar a un pinche vaile!"
- Flow through a pipe
- Electrode potential of ethanol
- Bee Flies
- most effective footrace training?
- Flour from Grasses
- Chemistry
- strontium iodide
March 17
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- Chocolate/Theobromine poisoning
- Galaxies as iron filings
- Chart
- Question on Sapphire and Blue Emrald.
- My telescope
- Decomposition
- Digoxin in health
- Animal clitorises
- Time Dilation
- nitrogen temp
- if you eat too much, will your body not digest it?
- Cyclooxygenase-1 in thrombocytes
- Organic chemistry
- choking
- don't we want to use non-nucleophilic base to form epoxides? (unwanted diols)
- New York State Regions
March 18
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- Wild bird with a foot band
- has anyone ever been born completely reversed?
- Inflation (cosmology)
- Trains
- Purpose
- Multiverse
- blue chemical
- bleach
- Narcissus in the aquarium
- Calculation of lifespan of the sun
- expansion exceeding speed of light
- Which converter?
- auxins - geotropism and photo-tropism
- string theory and space
- Freshly-made Bradford Reagent
- 3D TV and Animals
- Current over large distances
- How long does a snake need to be in order to constrict an average-sized man?
- Decay of large dead animal in water
- Aquarium bugs above the waterline
March 19
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- 360 degree lightmeter
- Using a digital camera as a light meter
- psychology
- I'm quite curious how these tricks are done:
- Learning Fourier Transform in 2 days
- Fourier transform 2
- CFL Afterglow
- Reusable chemical, cyronic or organic movie camera?
- PROJECT WORK
- ignitor and voltage
- NMR
- Extractor fan overrun timer
- effects of alkaline on carbohydrates
- Anti-plasmodial
March 20
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- Location of herpes hideout
- Symbol for angular impulse
- Angular friction
- <<<Static Electricity Question>>> Is it possible to excite BOTH light particles (in a small area) and the air surrounding them, with the SAME charge?
- Confused about Fourier Transform
- Phase
- Essential oils
- Relationship between Bragg planes, atoms, unit cells in crystallography
- determining a person's age
- Solar power satellite
- raw data on smoking deaths
- Testosterone and intelligence
March 21
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- Intermittent blood supply
- Lorentz invariant
- Short-pulse NMR
- speaker and receivers
- guns in video games
- Copperhead lookalike?
- hairdryers
- Natural Gas
- Medical Advice
- Meaning of retrolateral and prolateral
- Reaction quotient, dependent on standard state?
- Teleportation
- Fourier Transform
- are thermal baths bad for the skin
- CO2 in Antarctic Ice Sheet
March 22
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- Tides
- How did the Atlas ICBM navigate?
- Cloud base measurement
- Number of conjugated double bonds and photon energy absorbed
- Radiocarbon dating
- Sabbath feeling
- Theory of relativity
- Angular frequency in x-ray crystallography
- Emission (Fluorescence) in Polar and hydrophobic environments
- Is E2 (17beta-estradiol) a dioxin?
- Orbiting junk
March 23
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- "Forces of Potential"?
- Coriolis Force
- Air pollution UK
- Question about blackbodies and emissivity.
- aircrafts
- Pressure in a liquid
- Damage due to loss of circulation in extremities
- What is the quantum model for refraction of light?
- National Medal of Science
- Thiomersal/Thimerosal
- Scrambled eggs
- Thermal Radiation
- Trailing off...
- UH-60L data busses ....
- Rh disease and James Harrison
- Avalanches
March 24
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- Bone marrow donations
- About coefficient of mastication
- Question on Scientists
- Editing Wikipedia
- DC supply in tripping circuits
- Screw Compressor
- testicles
- has anything impossible ever happened for sure, well verified, with scientific consensus (there will be a followup question)
- How much of the Sun's energy is used for light and how much is used for heat?
- standing on one leg with eyes closed
- How long does it take to see changes in blood cholesterol levels?
- Another vacuum cleaner drive belt bites the dust
- household voltage and frequency
- population stratification in a normal sample of the general population
- Dentists identifying need for fillings by x-ray
- What's in a can of tuna?
- supermarket salt + vinegar
- Unusual rock
- Finding amount of chloride in a solution using ion-selective electrode
March 25
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- Currency manipulator
- Questions about casting resin
- cosmology
- what, in a physical sense, is an impossibility?
- this question's for you SteveBaker - is this demo rigged?
- How might a person be exposed to (x number of) rems?
- Political spectrum
- Space colonisation
- JASSA
- meat products
- Are ad hominen reasons sometimes reasonable?
- Nicotine and the kappa-opioid receptor
- Terminology for planetary orbits
- Converting from eV to cm^-1
- Taxonomic promotion
March 26
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- Biology (Incompatible bloods?)
- Cityscape and skyline
- G-23 paxilon hydrochlorate (PAX)
- Moon crashes into the Earth
- black and white
- Ethanol
- Rusted hammer
- Pyrophoric qualities of Ni-MH cells
- Diet defined by required and forbidden foods
- Chile
March 27
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- Do topical vitamins still work if dietary intake is sufficient?
- Interference (wave propagation)
- gravity
- dark matter
- F-CENTERS IN CRYSTAL DEFECTS
- Air pressure drop
- How do we make a bathtub full of lather and bubbles like how they show in the movies?
- What is the spin rate of a black hole?
- Flying Black Holes
- Salty garlic
- Hydrogenation of vinyl chloride
- If your tongue was removed...
- Yawning
- Missed beats
March 28
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- Stomach Cancer Genome
- Where to start with extreme theoretical physics?
- The Russian Sleep Experiment
- Dust Bowl
- Lowering tone as I stir drink mix
- will bleach oxidise hemiacetals?
- Anyone know about Victoria building and guttering?
- Turnover number
- If there was a giant hole through the Earth...
March 29
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- Electroweak theory
- What muscle is this, and how do I exercise it?
- Heat producers
- Space Radiation and the Earth's Atmosphere —how are high-frequency light rays affected?
- Nuclear bomb on Jupiter?
- theobromine's effect on pets like dog or cat
- The patterns on windows made by frost
- Sinus Infections
- Torque and angular momentum
- Defrosting and re-freezing
- Grasping the EPT
- What is the psychological term denoting the strong reaction (weeping, sobbing) when divulging a traumatic experience?
March 30
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- US household voltage
- Role of the Pudendal Nerve in male sexual function?
- PAC MAN MOON
- Number of organs
- Evolution - E. coli
- why pumice stone
- transpiration
- Scalar energy
- Why does swishing water help my toothache?
- Cancer disease
- number of sites
- calorie consumption
- Broom handle manufacture