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August 1
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Blood relations
Vitamin C in raw meat
Shovel-shaped incisors
Extracting multiple regression lines from a single data set
August 2
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No electricity for you!
Why Does the Annual Mortality Rate Rapidly Increase Between Ages 113 and 114?
Earthing
spina bifida case
Big Bang of nothing
How do antibodies kill antigens/pathogens?
Weight increments on a digital scale
Can a singularity spin?
Unexplored Areas
Unconscious mind
Race and obesity
Baby bird identification
what physically changes between the ages of 18 to 22 -- fourth years look older than first years, but is it senescence?
August 3
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Magnitude 10 earthquake by combination of faults
Deicing equipment / heaters
Ask for help to identify the fungus.
Nutrition in Human Breast Milk
Filial Imprinting
HF solid-liquid transition: densities
August 4
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Farts
Race and Running Speed?
Neurology and music
Hydrotriiodic acid
Involuntary Change of Sexuality?
Getting wet
How many strings make up a quark?
August 5
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botox and spoiled food
Organic group abbreviations
Please explain electricity consumer earthing
science/physics
Genetically Modified Corn Cell
Priority of Köppen classification
HERBS in lab
Austrian window-box plant; ID, please
Can mosquitos breed indoors ?
August 6
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Question about the plutonium in the curiosity rover
Landing on Mars and coming back
Updates To Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Thomson jumping ring
Sci Fi Movie Another Earth
Silviring Analogues for other Metals
What makes Curiosity so special?
How close would an alien species have to be to detect us if they had our current level of technology?
August 7
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Scientific article self-criticism
Sodium triphosphate alkalinity?
H2o2
bug identification
Proof crosswords help with any objective cognitive function
effect of exercise on cholesterol blood testing
mars rover
August 8
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Snowflake uniqueness
Mars Science Laboratory average speed
What is happening to me?
Heater and refrigerator conflict
Why doesn't the Mars rover walk on legs?
One way human tripulated mission to Mars
Analog Alarm (Wrist) Watches
What is this insect?
Whiteboard that isn't
E=mc2
A new problem formed on my car at the auto dealer. Your thoughts?
August 9
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Curiosity landing site ?= Pambotis Lacus?
Rocket vaporizing launcher pad/tower
is olive a citrus fruit?
Can flavor compounds and oils dissolve in saturated syrup if they won't dissolve in water?
How would all of Earth's electronics get shut down (as depicted on Revolution (TV series)?)
Earth-Moon orbit
August 10
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Metal sorting
Doyère, binomial authority for Milnesium tardigradum and so on
Incremental cost of second Curiosity-like rover
(UK) approx. inch and a half long insect with a long thin sting, wasp colours but not a wasp shape
Year we would live on mars.
Living longer with a transplanted heart
Time manipulation
Electromagnetic waves, please help me!
psoriasis
Beetles common to England seem to come in very specific sizes?
August 11
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Hydroponic Corn
Portable train derailer
Microscope on Mars
Extinct domesticated animals
monopole magnets
Rubber Eraser
Reparative growth and spindle
August 12
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Column vs flash chromatography
Apollo 11 or Apollo XI?
Vibro Compaction
animal with a large habitat in one continent
Race and sport
Unexpectedly valid folk taxonomies
Can't remember a book title - psychology or social science or possibly human evolution
Earthquake damage
August 13
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When you have a cold and feel weak, what exactly is happening to your body?
E=mc2
antifungal
Height and sexual satisfaction
Unidentified Agama
Epithelium tissue
Strings
Was Richard Feynman a frequentist or a Bayesianist or?
Physicist
How does Slushy Magic work ?
tsa
August 14
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Squiggly rain drops
What is the difference between a "larvae" and a "Nymph"?
Higgs field vs. Dark Energy
Please identify this pill
Ternary mixtures and Raoult law
All particles moving at the speed of light
August 15
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Proton equilibrium distance?
Hydrogen isotopes
Stellar Transition Paradox?
How is the LHC able to sustain 5 trillion degree temperatures?
Why only one extant species of human
West Nile vaccine for humans
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photo of Curiosity
Increasing human intellect?
August 16
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How are the life cycles of Mollusks and Insects alike?
Loch Ness monster
Does Neanderthal DNA show nature of sexual unions?
what was there before the BIGBANG ?
blueshift and redshift.
war planes
asenapine
How long does it take to go from patent to commercialization?
current
magnet
Orange lights, other colors of LED lights
Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
August 17
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what's the squiggly side group symbol stand for?
ET contact book
Which jobs require sharp vision?
physics/5th Dimension
Approximately how much mass does the Milky Way lose each day?
Is an apple alive or dead when you eat it?
Different magnets
Invisibility
Tinned pineapple poisoning?
Spider identification
Archery Accuracy
Adrenaline rush
Time Dilation Questions
Microwave plastic ring
August 18
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Who is this beetle?
+9 oxidation state
Specialization related to identification of animal sounds
Hi, I need help with this endocrionological equation
What is John Money's intention?
Black hole = Center of mass?
Plant identification
Why the climate is not completely cyclic?
August 19
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Pressure increase on the ground due to an overflying plane
Distance of galaxies from Earth
Electric Potential
Is this stone is natural or human made?
Ozone Dangers
smell vs taste
August 20
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Looking into the past
The physics and etc. of Total Recall (the 2012 remake)
Relationship between electricity and intelligence
In megatons, what is the total estimated yield of the world's nuclear stockpile?
absorption of vitamins
Plutonium tetroxide
Neuron Anatomy
canon 650d, Magic Lantern
Please add Vascepa (isosapent ethyl) to Wikipedia Encyclopedia
maxwells inductance capacitance bridge
What's the percent of NASA projects that get canceled before completion?
Unknown snake in the Pantanal
Cabbage and lettuce
August 21
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Sticky Stuff Remover chemical identity
What is a Gaussian belt?
orchid
Estimate altitude from environmental conditions
Mass of Thought
What about this lizard
(Chinese) Vegetable Identification
Radius of the universe
Multiple Big Bangs
Castleton Botanical Gardens
Question about oral sex
August 22
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A New Life Beginning at Fertilization
Reference Needed for Multiplicity (psychology)
srface charge density on a sphere
Double tolerance problem article ?
can't break speed of sound?
Using fuel to cool an internal combustion engine
August 23
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Breast size and milk production
Airspeed
Why doesn't kilometers per hour have a special name?
Which mobile standards uses OFDM?
jerry sandusky
Hydrogen at Fukushima Daiichi
Bird call identification?
lichens: as decomposers
Gephyromantis VS Mantidactylus
August 24
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Brain and Lung Tumor?
Higg's field and energy
A machine with free will
Low signal to noise ratio
August 25
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What if Earth stopped rotating?
Why didn't the world enter a nuclear winter in the mid-20th Cent.?
How many calories in a shot of vodka?
Kuiper belt object
Estuary
Vaporizer, cannibis
Why do different air masses equilibriate slowly ?
DNA
August 26
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landers and boulders
Is It Possible to Change One's "Handedness"?
Naked images from interstices in fabric?
Does Unriped fruits contain less sugars?
Men always taller than their mothers?
August 27
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This Last Mars rover
Stopping neutrinos
Finding Electric Field Magnitude and Direction at a Point Charge
How come my Prickly Pears won't bloom?
Light source measurement in CRI/Ra
August 28
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Symmetries of the Universe
Was the flies in Autstalia tamed so that they mainly feed on plants but not trash?
The resolution of reality
Would entities exist without minds to distinguish them?
If a body reverses direction, does it momentarily stop?
Historical alternatives to Darwinism (AKA Darwinian evolution)?
August 29
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Kepler-47
Superheating and nucleation
Mars Science Laboratory Flight Path
professions
General anaesthesia
Carl Linnaeus Belived In The Fixity Of Species By Divine Creation And Died 31 Years Before Darwin Was Born. Why Then Does The Taxonomic System That Bears His Name Support Darwin's Theory Of Common
How audible would it be to a human?
Does 'Curiosity' have a microphone on board? if not, then why not?
I get the advantages of sexual reproduction, but what are the advantages of having separate sexes?
Telomeric fusion and human evolution
Any acquired immunity to rubella when an infant gets it pre-vaccination?
August 30
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Star positions in the past
Attractiveness
Star Gazing Hobby
Raptor factoid
Why did people in the late 1800s think an aether was necessary for the propagation of light, when Maxwell's equations show that this is unnecessary?
What are the differences between male and female human faces? In words...
August 31
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Is there a way to help someone run faster?
Good-looking
Corneal vs Cataract Transplants
SR & QM unification
Ebola Carrier Found