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February 1
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Human Respiratory system
Name for length of time that data is recorded for
Windshield wiper fluid vs evaporative cooling
Newton's Dog
February 2
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What keeps the shiny side of aluminum foil from getting dull?
Ejection Fraction
Trying to link the image with Harry Potter
February 3
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Feynman Lectures. Lecture 46. Ch.46-4, Ch.46-5 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_46.html]
What is nerve discharge?
What is the name of this disease?
Automatic envelope-opening machines?
Arrector pili muscle and the term 'arrectores pilorum'
Exploding Pyrex
Industrial production of breast milk
What is the reason that products with fructose are for diabetic people?
Magnets and compasses terminology
Why do humans live in one location year-round instead of following the food supply?
February 4
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Stephen Hawking's illness
Reverse osmosis
Spectrophotometry
Wastewater disposal
Celestial body and person related to the following image
Why aren't opiods commonly used as suicide drugs?
When a fly falls into water then it dies?
Temperature of reflecting material
stalled replicating DNA
February 5
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For how many times the water is dense than air?
hand sanitizer
Had Abiogenesis Happened Once?
concrete roads
February 6
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is couscous a liquid?
Units of Mass
Weighing equipment ID
"Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data"
MTHFR polymorphisms
February 7
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Phases of matter
How many oxygen molecule in any molecule of hemoglobin de facto?
Is blood pressure considered as a hydrostatic pressure?
Human Body vs. Gorilla Body
Can criminal human behavior be predicted before they strike?
February 8
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Why does the Diesel cycle assume a combustion at constant pressure?
Are devices safe after a blackout?
February 9
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How is Meclofenoxate produced?
Question about the Physics
Rabies virus detection in blood
"1A6" and "M1" in the context of machining
February 10
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How do flamingos resist alkali?
Knowledge of Jupiter
Why are my contributions not visible on the main pageJohn(Y-B-F-L) (talk)
Superglue turning white and white extending beyond superglue (on black plastic)
February 11
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Why people with hypoxemia get blue color (cyanosis) on their skin?
Aircraft tendency to roll?
Why do boys like girls long before spermarche?
Small female dogs getting knocked up by big male dogs
Humidity in heated room vs humidity in cold air
Making breathable oxygen from water
February 12
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Thanks for your information on the loudness the flying insects but i have still a question that has been unanswered
Antimatter
February 13
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Lack of certain vitamines andor minerals can make someone more appetative for eating ?
What is the relationship between obesity and metabolic disorders?
Are the viruses infections is forever in the body after the enter?
What does the letter O in blood type O stands for?
Proportional or Gravitational Constant “G”
Hooke and the monk's room
February 14
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How could the universe be infinite?
Feynman Lectures. Lecture 48. Ch.48-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_48.html]
Nuclear fallout
What to call '2A "self-cleavage" peptide?
What is subcloning? I think article might be wrong
How long does a fecal transplant last?
Nanobots slowing aging
Blood type distribution by country
Does porn change the sexual preferences?
February 15
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Diabetes type 2 - mechanism of the problem
By which mechanism sex is considered a risk factor for arteriosclerosis?
Feynman Lectures. Lecture 48. Ch.48-4 . Refractive index < 1, phase speed > c [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_48.html]
What type of person makes all the factory parts and programs them to work?
Walking on the moon
One light controlled by two switches
February 16
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Hiding numbers in a crossed-eye stereogram.
Identify a tadpole shrimp (Triops)
does exercise oxidize us
How do I make a factory?
February 17
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Plant from Bangladesh
Is abstract thinking unique to Homo sapiens?
Spider and snake
February 18
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What is the difference between IS:733 and IS:736
Scientific coincidence
Can dogs and cats eat cooked foods?
Antidepressant vs recreational drugs
Killing a tree without chopping it down
Stage of development when freezing developing humans
Illnesses from indirect accidental consumption of animal faeces during outdoor activities
February 19
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I'd like to have my car tires vulcanized .......... by Buster Keaton's mechanic
Menstruation
If the Solar System were brought to rest relative to the Galaxy then allowed to follow real physics what would the new orbit be?
Infections
Search for Alien life
Theobromine toxicity
LDL and HDL are different from cholesterol?
Are there any microorganisms that wouldn't taste bad if you drank or chewed many grams of them?
Need bibliography about how, when and why to apply statistics
Apollo 8
Question about cryogenic preservation and transgender people
American '80s car
What is the reason that it's more healthy to eat unsaturated fats than saturated fats?
Temperature of boiling liquids
February 20
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Where did electronegativity come from?
Biology
What dangerous in Diesel exhaust fluid to human body?
Multiple infections simultaneously
each person has thousand of micro punctures developing in the vascularisation - every day?
February 21
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Wendy's Frosty
Question about the Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation
SpaceX
If you donate a kidney to someone and then somehow manage to acquire your kidney back and to have it be implanted back inside of your body, would your kidney work and function just fine afterwards?
February 22
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How long does it take before a volcanic island can support trees?
A point where something can be a liquid, gas and solid at the same time
"Designer" benzodiazepine vs "legitimate" ones
Is there a part of North America that can grow all common and semi-common English plants without crippling them?
February 23
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Does the brain control the heart also?
Ratio of circumference to diameter
Newly discovered earth-size planets at nearby star 40 light years away.
Can a human house provide shelter for the animals, and in return, the animals provide food for humans?
Kinetic energy, Momentum
Quantifying change in equilibrium compositions in gas phase reactions from halving/doubling reaction volume
February 24
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Blood meal
How much vitamin b12 fortified foods must be eaten as a replacement for animal products?
Why is human intention regarded as unnatural?
February 25
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Feynman Lectures. Lecture 49. Ch.49-4. [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_49.html]
Taste of VX
The newly discovered 7 earth size planets II
Extra visual colors via eye tracking?
February 26
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Stereochemistry
How to hasten the separation of oil from peanut butter?
How far ahead can the weather be predicted with reasonable accuracy?
February 27
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Why are there so few jet engine manufacturers?
Can earthling plants live on martian soil?
Metallic Hydrogen, Deuterium
February 28
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Auditory preparedness
Water pressure and volume under the sea and at surface