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October 2
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October 3
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- More firefighting Q's...
- Efficiency of jet engine
- How does the Portuguese man o' war eat
- Complex roots by numerical methods
- Refilling Glycogen Stores
- Anti-biotics questions.
- Big science equipment - rolled on wooden trunks?
- Atmosphere and gravity
October 4
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October 5
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October 6
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- Can electron quantum tunnel out of a black hole?
- Limit of temperature generated by electricity
- Global warming
- Is there a wikipedia article debunking the "Never Adjust for Curvature of Earth" claim of Flat Earth?
- Name of 'Bill Gates just walked in the room effect'
- Skin moisturizer as universal solvent ?
- Conductive fingernail decoration strip?
- Salmon
- Those human-looking robots
October 7
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- Are pumice stones a rational response to a callus?
- Electric powering a vehicle through induction
- "Chemtrails"
- Why not re-attach the kidney?
October 8
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- FLAT EARTHER speaks the truth
- The equations of dynamical systems in our physical theories
- Nose blindness
- Toothache becoming pulmonary problems
October 9
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- How much effect do humans have on tides, wind, Earth's rotation and the Moon's position?
- Conservation of energy
- How exactly are populations calculated by the minutiae?
- Immunity against viruses by changing the way DNA sequences code to proteins and changing the DNA code so that the same proteins are produced?
October 10
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October 11
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October 12
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- Detecting a primitive alien civilization
- Understanding physics formula intuitively
- Vertebral column in the center
- Evolution
- Protein
October 13
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- instead of alpha decay or beta decay, why doesn't there also exist decays by a proton and a neutrino, or by a neutron and a neutrino happen?
- What's the highest sulfur fossil fuel ever made?
October 14
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October 15
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October 16
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October 17
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- Kilonova and superheavy elements
- Moving from warfarin to heparin + surgery
- Clean air in the UK
- Voltage drop
- Flu vaccine and disease prevention (US vs. Europe)
- How many grams of food caused each gram of blattella germanica in a someone's home?
October 18
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- How (un)likely are these science fiction inventions to ever exist in this universe?
- Elliptical Orbit of planets
- Pitch-drop experiment and scientific method
- Is cosmic deflation possible, etc
- Infrastructure civil engineering
October 19
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- Science and translating ideas into English
- Does the human body store salt?
- Fatty-acid metabolism disorder
- Unidentified bird
- Immune System
October 20
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October 21
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October 22
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October 23
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- Do old farts dream of flying insects?
- "Fun science" for kids using a laser pointer
- Reason for large difference in pyrethrin solubility due to a methyl group
- Gull intelligence
October 24
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October 25
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- Is it possible to see Philadelphia from New York City?
- Question about gravity assists and space probes
- Hellenistic astrology
- Vertebrate intelligence
October 26
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October 27
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October 28
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- How many N-receptors are there (2 or 3?)
- Physical exertion causing rheumatism
- Time for Wow signal to reach Earth
October 29
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October 30
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- Locomotive efficiency
- Zero Living Diet Pt2
- Moist sodium chloride density data
- What's the average or median tidal range of the coast of the World Ocean?
- Finding Voyager 1 goes dark