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December 1
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- if you are are more biologically matured for your age does that mean you will have a shortened life span?
- Reliable evaluation of a popular science magazine
- If a skyscraper's designed for weak Cat 4 hurricanes but not earthquakes?
December 2
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- Rabbit habit
- Identify a weapon used by the South African Army
- What is the reason that not any mammal can be reproductive from another different mammal?
- Why do animals have hearts ?
- Atomic particle identification
- supermassive black holes
- alcohol hand gel
December 3
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- Is Glicine not chiral?
- What does the word "cis" (of cis isomer) stand for?
- What do the letters Pk stands for in chemistry (acids & basis)?
- What the heck is a "wedge connector", and should there be a Wikipedia article about it?
- 24v from PSU
- Science or Science Fiction? Professionals’ Discursive Construction of Climate Change
- Fishing spider in the house
December 4
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- Erroneous Recycling
- Running crack
- Reflection of light when momentum is transferred
- no information on the bond energies of a pi bond (ALONE), separate from the C=C sigma bond?
- What large cheap vessel to use for a chloroform vapour bath?
December 5
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- What is the difference between these two glycines?
- Reducing the waiting period to donate blood after male-male sex - practical impact?
- Why are mitochondria called "mitochondria"?
- Is that claim proved scientifically?
- Arachidyl Alcohol
- Fire safety
- Ginkgo fruit yield
December 6
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- School systems in America, England and Holland
- Which school system is better: the Dutch, American or British one?
- When photons hit solar sails
December 7
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- Mountain gaps
- Air pollution and what kind is the worst for your health
- Sex with a Hepatitis C positive woman during her period
- All other things equal is building fire a bigger or smaller risk at high altitude?
- External temperature sensors on cars
December 8
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- Falling from a balloon
- Beech 18
- Why defibrillator is not placed directly above the heart?
- Sleeping positions
- Star formation and Dark matter
- Are humans ever harmed by highways?
- Turing test considerations
- Apollo machete
December 9
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- How many levels of carbons are there in isoleucine?
- Predicting solar eclipses
- What do speculation of raw materials?
- What was Brenda wearing?
December 10
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- Men taking a pregnancy test
- In what way teachers in academy used to draw the signs of skeletal structures?
- Can norovirus be used as a non-lethal bioweapon for urban warfare?
- galaxies
- Is there any medical value when a care provider talk to his trauma patient?
- Birds seen at SeaWorld San Diego
- plane of simultaneity link
- Pleven
- Is it possible to project the human voice faster than the speed of sound?
December 11
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- Is the occlumotor passes in the neck?
- climate warming and record low temperature
- Can I say that the definition of "matter" is anything that has an electron?
- Is hydrophilic molecule a synonym of polar molecule?
- Polar air mass meeting tropical air mass
December 12
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December 13
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- What's the chance that a random transit of Mercury?
- How much does 1 kg of air weigh?
- Power Splitter
- Storing data in ice Ih
- How do F-35s avoid colliding with each other?
December 14
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- Nitrogen gas VSEPR sketch
- Interpretation of size: "152 x 200 x 20 + 39 cm" of bed sheet
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41. Ch. 41–3 Equipartition and the quantum oscillator [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html#Ch41-S3]
- Main Battle Tanks
- Does the cold itself cause to illness or the viruses are those which cause it?
December 15
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- What street legal road vehicle has the biggest weight to ground contact area ratio?
- What species is this?
- Crosses with more than 2 traits
- narrow width of solar system
- is it so that comets have half life?
- how can explode a bomb in vacuum space?
- Identify an office machine (checkwriter)?
December 16
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- Getting microwaves deeper into food (i.e. not cold in middle)
- What weapons could damage a plane made of flawless nanotubes/nanotube composite?
December 17
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- Would a man's testicles stop working if his testicles were cut open and all of his seminiferous tubules were surgically removed?
- Waterfalls get narrower at the bottom?
- Chemical ratio
- Biological organism development stages
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html]
December 18
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- Asthma as a consequence of fighting off lung cancer?
- Tell me about ceramic non-stick coatings
- What species of fungi is this?
- Tow hitch and rear end crash
December 19
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- glass turning cloudy
- Static pile load
- Research for my book (nsfw)
- "Healthy food" vs. "Junk food"
- Does early sexual maturation predict a shorter life expectancy?
- Humans and nature
- cold and salt killing harmful bacteria
- Has any land animal evolved to become a sea animal?
- Any explanation for the Richat Structure?
December 20
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- Clementine
- Circumcision as HIV prevention in gay men (particularly insertive anal sex)
- Strange solid brown stuff inside banana
December 21
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- Interesting effect I've noticed.
- Tallest mountains prior to those in the Himalayan Plateau? (and after)
- Gamma rays causing interference on professional video recording?
December 22
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- Housekeeping in Microgravity
- Firing in context of measuring electrical activity in nervous sytem
- why do the neurons in medulla oblongata fire prior to the inhalation?
December 23
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December 24
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- The definition of matter - space and mass
- are electrons made of by fermions?
- Question about the redox potential
- Sizes
- Are there places which don't have lightning & thunder despite they have rain and snow?
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html]
December 25
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- Condoms failing during perfect use
- Vocal type
- Snow References
- In chemistry are there 3 states of matter or 4 or 5?
- The differences and the definitions of proton and neutron
December 26
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- stupid NMR question
- boat that can "fly" underwater like a penguin
- Deposit of fog droplets vs. fog drip
- information on a french reflecting circle by lorieux, lepetit
- Are the waves of the ECG created before the real contraction of the heart?
- Determine whether caulk is silicone or acrylic?
December 27
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- Distance to stars
- Lithium-ion batteries in smartphones emit more than 100 toxic gases
- Traditional and Western medicines
December 28
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- Confusing pubmed article: "skin defect of hell"
- (short-term) Death Toll from catastrophic Dam failure?
- Why isn't alcohol used to treat bacterial skin infections?
- Artificial intelligence
December 29
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- Commercially-canned mushrooms
- Long-term effects of high electric current on copper wire
- Global warming: have I got this right?
- Why is the non dominant side of the body is stronger?
- The chemistry of baking bread
December 30
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- What if we discovered a new (caloric) macronutrient?
- Under which classification is "troponin"?
- Species of Loligo used in the landmark studies of membrane biophysics
- What is the effect of tissue hypoxia on the cellular metabolic rate?
- Climate Change