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July 1
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Malaria
How would certain wikipedians do in the World Quizzing Championship?
Two questions about the blood donation or blood test
what is the purpose of the breathing from mouth to mouth in CPR?
E 85 (Ethanol vehicles)
July 2
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Mars will definitely survive or it is possible to get eaten by sun
What's pictured in this astronomical photo?
admission for engineering
I've got this song stuck in my head...
Dark matter/energy
citation counts: most cited people
"Physical" dark matter chunks near Earth?
What's the sourest object in the known universe?
Something is wrong with the magnetic induction " B" !
July 3
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Bluejays and cardinals
Total solar eclipse of Egypt circa 3100 BC?
NYC and nuclear attack
Bipolar Disorder associated features
Rehydration of troops in Iraq/ Afghanistan
July 4
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Colds and bacterial infections
Boiling water in a kettle
Putting an aspirin on the gum
wild animals and spicy food
Video on race and intelligence
July 5
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Electricity
Can magnetic fields be like a laser?
Fern spore range
Tension
polymers
Affinity constants
Is Neptune habitable?
July 6
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Potential energy stored in a capacitor
Ayaks, its that even possible?
Loss of weight after recovering from illness
regarding equivalence of PG degrees.
Men and asking for directions
July 7
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alcohol consumption
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing?
Race vs. Subspecies vs. Breed
Effective population size of the X chromosome vs mtDNA
July 8
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Angular Momentum
clam nectar
Technical terms for snap-together fastening mechanism?
What is the function of women having longer hairs?
Why is pseudoscience so popular?
Secondary cells/rechargeable batteries
Is it true that fasting "programs" your body to store fat?
July 9
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Can an echo be reborn?
Imported Fizzy drink tastes
Crustaceans
Metal-free
July 10
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Why can't I run an electric heater in reverse to cool a room?
Angular momentum II
Go fuck yourself
Raw Pork
The genetics of the royals
The "Runaway Train" Lever
Coke didn't freeze
July 11
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Post-operative fever : another Five Ws ?
Cricket Revometer
Gastritis
Boiling water with vending machines... in SECONDS! A miracle!
July 12
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Heads of State who were also Medical Doctors?
How soon til the island of stability?
So, how much did L Ron Hubbard actually get right...
Natural human lifespan in the wild, without modern medicine
July 13
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equal pressure gas airlocks
Glycaemic Indices of Gluten-free flours.
Looking for an Approachable In to Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics (As in books)
Lac-Mégantic derailment
Natives
Does the human body only use glucose and ketone bodies as fuel?
Peculiar cell nuclei
July 14
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Need help identifying a catapillar
Heavy legs
July 15
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"Hearing the wind"
Noisy ladybirds (ladybugs)
River swelling
July 16
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Carbon emission
Totally off-topic, but I didn't find where to ask!
When on H. sapiens ' evolutionary timeline did the equivalent of the hallux ("thumb" on lower limbs) stop being opposable?
First embryonic stem cell transplantation in lab rats
Energy into matter...
July 17
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How do people sleep during daylight conditions?
Measuring rate of rotation by the Doppler effect
When do we call a celestial body a moon?
Energy of Earths Spin
reaction of amino acids with formaldehyde...a simple way to decarboxylate to form a hetero-diene?
July 18
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19th century medicine on sexual health
Mental inheritance
Making oil from CO2
Optimal watering schedule
Is the gravitational lensing caused by Earth measurable?
Is it an example of precipitate reaction?
Correlation between continuous visible spectrum and the models used in display/detection of red, green, and blue channels
If Feverfew is poisonous to animal pets
longest-running experiment to reach an unknown conclusion?
Laser Magnet
July 19
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Distilled vulcanoids?
video games
Aphasia?
Things getting stuck inside bivalves?
July 20
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Bubbles in carbonated wated
Analog retransmitting rain gauge
Putting a cadaver in a morgue drawer
Do they always detonate the explosives?
Filling a gas cigarette lighter.
July 21
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Lightning and outdoor sport
Insulating patches in otherwise-complete Faraday cages
Why are deciduous trees light green ("spring green") in the spring?
Main Battle Tank
What is Osmazome?
Operating characteristics of induction motors on modified sine wave
July 22
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MInimal human sustaining-crops?
Wasp-eating birds
Phosphates
Isostearamidopropyl Morpholine Lactate
Can lime juice "cook" shrimp ?
How accurately known are the orbits of Space debris?
Two MRSA questions
July 23
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Help identifying a plant.
Why doesn't aluminium spark?
Is each transmitter restricted to a specific frequency?
Side effects
July 24
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How is fatty acid chain length regulated by Fatty Acid Synthase (in plants/bacteria)
Paper gives peak modal age at death for hunter-gatherers at approximately 69 years old. Inaccurate?
Mass of smoke in a wood fire?
Iron in breakfast cereals
Question on so-called copulins
Schrödinger's cat
July 25
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Is this a horse fossil?
Is a fat person more resistant to alcohol intoxication than a skinny person is?
Precision engineering contest?
G forces when two cars collide
July 26
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Did the Earth ever exist?
Lego structural integrity
Controlling menstration schedule
Skip-Dr.
Malignant growths
Spontaneous time travel
Travelling faster than the speed of light
Does light accelerate?
Heracleum mantegazzianum (invasive species)
Has any valuable discovery been made through the Nazi human experimentations?
Measuring "Northness"?
July 27
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Why do bullet-proof vests expire ?
Hatchet wasp "attacking" spider?!
Hero shrew article - what does this mean?
Diode?
Audio physiological effects
Bee
flare
Long reverberation time in stone-walled cathedrals
If sperm from a white man, black man, chinese man and indian man were inserted into a woman?
Why do people feel tired after eating ?
July 28
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Parthenocarpy in cherry trees
Division of a vector by a vector
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
What would be the difference if earth was pyramid?
Light, mass and gravity
Deriving relativistic kinetic energy for curvilinear motion
July 29
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Nearest non-extinct species
"Inheritance" of the notion of female beauty
Endemism and the Eastern United States...
Can mathematical models cause errors in astrophysics
July 30
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Domesticated Hedgehog
Feeling pain in a dream
Deaths Cap in homeopathy and well poisoning
Symbol/syntax for denoting an (intentional) error?
MPN / CFU relationship
July 31
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Visibility of the New Moon
To somehow detect Everett's "other worlds": some new "telescope?"
Is the moon in the sky exactly as often during the day as during the night?
Electron Affinity of flourine< chlorine, why?
Utilization of infrared, solar cells.
How do you determine if a bird is fat?