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October 1
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- Possible reasons for gray hair in beard
- Asepsis on Mars, Moon and elsewhere
- Magnet therapy history
- What are the advantages of sexual dimorphism over simultaneous hermaphrodism?
- How exactly was the Standard Atmosphere determined ?
October 2
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- Mind uploading
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 27 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_27.html]
- Impact force distribution
- What makes B complex vitamins smell so awful.
October 4
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October 5
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- Equine vision & colour blindness
- electricity
- Which tropical cyclones brought major hurricane wind to the most miles of coast?
- Painted bat coloration
October 6
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- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 27. Ch. 27–7 Resolving power [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_27.html]
- How old are beach pebbles?
- Trying to identify the name of a physical scaling constant
- Appalachian endorheic basins
October 7
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- Age and Height: 2 to 3 Yards Tall
- How same elements form different compounds
- breeds of cattle and their milk
October 9
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October 10
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- What is this plant?
- How long should a clock radio last on a UPS?
- Level (logarithmic quantity)
- Do the sparks from car welding robots have any effect on the car or robot?
- Core
October 11
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- Nights are loud
- What plants are these (the ones in the foreground)?
- Other ways to achieve immortality
- can radiation from outer space cure cancer?
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 30. 30–1The resultant amplitude due to n equal oscillators [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_30.html#Ch30-S1]
- Comparable density
October 12
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- New Earth Like Planets
- Regenerating a li-ion battery?
- What's the Maximum cruise speed for Boeing 767 at 5000 ft?
- Caterpillars and butterflies
- Human travel to Mars
- Purported car that runs on sea water
- Acousto-magnetic tags
- What's the smallest nm node that's inevitable in consumer electronics (as far as we know)?
October 13
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- Do T3 and T4 hormones play role in regulation of the body temperature?
- Are follicles the structural units for all types of glands or just thyroid gland?
- Mortality during pregnancy
October 14
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- How long would electrons take to stop accelerating if homes used DC?
- The science behind how "Metanium" cream works
- What's larger, follicle cell or parafollicle cell?
October 15
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- Would the world be in a worse state if we still relied on horse and cart?
- Bubbles on puddles
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 31. Sec. 31–2 The field due to the material [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_31.html#Ch31-S2]
- Magnesium sulphate and mineral water
- Mission to Europa
- Loudspeaker's size and weigh
- Blood tests
- How do you *spill* methyl mercaptan?
October 16
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- Radioactivity sucker
- I see this bird in Catford
- What are the grid fins on Shenzhou for?
- Are there more species which go on two legs permanently like human being?
October 17
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October 18
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October 19
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- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 32. Sec. 32–5 Scattering of light [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_32.html#Ch32-S5]
- Is that true that for increasing testosterone it's good to eat a lot of fats?
- Can dead bodies infect life bodies with hepatitis or HIV?
- Are there any reports (preferably scientific reports) which talk about the amount of pain that a person with prosthetic balls suffers when he gets kicked in the balls?
October 20
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- Surviving a 130-degree hyperthermia
- Walk thousands of miles without losing weight
- copper pot vs copper pot filled with water
- If you put wings on to a Tesla, would it fly?
October 21
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October 22
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October 23
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- Triplet paradox
- Defining the Kg in terms of (Atmospheric) Pressure
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 33. Formula 33.2 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_33.html#mjx-eqn-EqI332]
- Earth ocean rifts total gas output
- Storm surge
- Orion spaceship
- It's a simple question of weight ratios!
October 24
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- Biological Endothermic Processes 3E9 YA
- Stimulated emission versus quantum encryption
- Solar system Gas giants
- Which article covers ViDAR?
October 25
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- Is that true that the brain has arteries only without veins?
- Why are evolutionary the testis are located outside of the body?
- Drugs
- diabetes type I and II:sugars as ?:fats as ??:salt.
- Final element?
October 26
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- Alien signals
- Can humans train to sleep less?
- Post-nasal drip
- If gravity on Mars is around 38% that of Earth, how rovers there stay in contact with the ground and don't float?
- high doses of dextromethorphan leading to a false positive test for Phencyclidine
- Why does my neighbors' kitten have such a small tail?
- Why can't I smell a dead animal in my house?
October 27
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October 28
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- Why did old TV screens dwindle to a tiny dot when switched off?
- Reasons for and severity of the dangers of leaving mobile phones on during flights
- Question about plane waves
- Largest fragrant flower
October 29
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- component type ID
- Best substance to absorb moisture from a damp item upon contact
- A hypothetical idea
- Do athletes live longer?
- Is the a/c ventilation system ever big enough so that a person can move through it?
October 30
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