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January 2
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January 3
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- Why don't they just put parachutes on rocket stages to make them reusable?
- Hex bar
- Why use less paper and more eletricity is good for earth?
- Oldest dolphins?
- Blu tak-- thermal conductivity
January 4
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January 5
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- AWG table, ampacity and voltage
- mean free path of a neutrino inside a neutron star
- China's nuclear stockpile as a deterrent
- White dog poop
- What happened to Andrew Wakefield's co-authors?
- Lithium batteries - "dangerous to aviation"?
- Why don't humans eat the pests on crops instead of spraying crops with pesticides?
- If humans die off from their own technologies, then can the planet recover from what humans leave behind?
- Could an extant jet engine start on Mars without modification?
January 6
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January 7
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- Talc containing asbestos
- Afterburner
- Unknown plant
- Building a snowman when conditions are not optimal
January 8
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- Euginic is base from correct evoltion science?
- Vancouver cold this winter
- What are these little spikes on the beach?
January 9
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- Alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Steam locomotive speed
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 6 (6-3, 6-4) [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_06.html], Lecture 41 (41-4) [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_41.html], Lecture 43 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html]. Probability = 33%
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 43. Ch.43-6 Thermal conductivity [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html#Ch43-S6]
- Why are the leaves still red?
- Where can you drive through a redwood?
- Engineering question: fit, clearance and tolerance
January 10
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- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 43. Lecture Summary [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_43.html]
- How is gluten-free flour made?
- Is it scientifically proved that menstruation causes women to be irritated or nervous or it's a myth?
- Earth Axis Axial Precession
January 11
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- Physicists vs. Mathematicians
- Why does capital punishment have to be by lethal injection in the US?
- Does an increase in your heart rate result in greater thirst on your part?
- Decimal years
January 12
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- Zeroth
- Bird hipped and reptile hipped
- Why do nurses remove bubbles from syringe before injection to IM?
January 13
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- Is there something like a reactivity series for melting points of organic compound types?
- What are the borders of the cerebral circulation?
- How could air embolism in the artery (by syringe) cause heart attack or stroke?
- Sleep-wake in DSM
- life expectancy of guns in terms of EFC?
- Stopping power
- Honey bee behavior and oatmeal?
January 14
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- Liver damage
- Stopping power, part 2
- What is string?
- EU power cable mod
- Why are the leaves still red? The sequel
- Are there units that take spacetime into account?
- Nasal breathing and tonsils
January 15
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- Physical interest/meaning of a certain Bernstein function
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-4 The efficiency of an ideal engine [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
- Tritium tube concentration and pressure for brightness
- Helicopters and drones on Everest
January 16
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- Why is the lymphatic system not symmetric in the body?
- What is the reason that chewing gum causes to appetite?
- Lower sex drive during the daytime,higher sex drive at night
January 17
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- Three objects rearranged
- Inverse of pressure
- Do small children have more nerve endings per unit skin area than grown ups?
- Do humans ever crave romaine lettuces and tomatoes?
- Were moonwalkers allowed to keep any pieces of it?
January 18
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- Mass, space etc
- How loud and "shaky" is an H-bomb at various distances?
- Binomial badgers
- Battery as a blasting cap?
- Endocrine and exocrine hormones
January 19
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- Matter is liquid... at zero temperature?
- What does it mean "generation number" in histology?
- Why is the benzyl group a phenyl group with atoms added?
- Why aren't
carboxylic acidsCOOH molecules literally COOH? - Why is the 5.56×45mm NATO called like this, when it is neither 5.56 nor 45mm in dimensions?
- Psychopathy and Monoamine oxidase
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-6 Entropy [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
- Mechanism of curly hair
- Time dilation and getting there faster by travelling at a lower speed
- Diff
January 20
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January 21
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- How long ago was there a year when the global average temperature on Earth was as high as it was in 2016?
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 44. Ch.44-5 ,Ch.44-5 Internal energy as function of something [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_44.html]
- Plastic food boxes, drink cans and bottles, use water wash then recycle
- Convergent evolution in humans
- Medical apparatus
January 22
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January 23
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- syphilis among first peoples in south america, north america, and nearby islands, etc.
- Dehumidifier performance when the coils develop a coating of ice
January 24
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- Why doesn't bariatric surgery lead to starvation?
- Brothers and sisters in dog packs
- milk tooth
- Have you seen someone at the age of 90 grow teeth in his mouth again
- my patent
- As in movies
- Octane rating: why are combustion kinetics faster for linear molecules?
- Ratings for lamp shades based on heat or light output?
- Food waste and rat traps
- material science
- Genetic modification
- Does the SI need 7 basic units?
- Animals making knots
January 25
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- How much do minor planet spacecraft change their targets' orbits?
- Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg review of Sexual Preference
- Uncertainty represented through significant digits
- Evolution of the gaps
January 26
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- Weather forecasting
- Double slit experiment - observer variation
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 45. Ch.45-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_45.html]
- Triplicate experiments
January 27
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- Microwave oven radiation and computer storage media
- Is this an approved method in other spacecraft?
- Counteracting force
- Releasing pressurized gas near absolute zero
January 28
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- Why ketone "bodies?"
- Fingernails
- NIST's non-normalized scientific notation
- What happen when cold blooded creature use a coat?
- US crude oil pipelines
- Predicting stability of particles
- Man-eating Pteranodons of Transyl...vania! (WTF?)
- Are different populations of "humans" around the world really the same species and thus have the same diet?
January 29
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- Strange sticky brown condensation on bathroom wall
- Water gurgles and urine
- Machining is so boring!
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 46. Ch.46-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_46.html#Ch46-S3]
- Medical terminology may please be explained in simple English
- Drug addiction when you don't enjoy the drug
- boiling water that already were boiled and cooled
- password
- Is there a term for the continents excluding Antarctica?
January 30
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- Toulouse botanical gardens
- Are wind patterns guaranteed not to change
- Non-dairy creamer is not sweet