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September 1
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Do devices compete against each other in an electrical installation?
Are sperm alive?
When athletes train explosive power
Black hole star
Eye muscles
September 2
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Photoelectric effect
Screen energy demand on laptop
Which paper at sciencedirect for this Lancet paper?
Which optical illusion is this?
Unknown watch
Stem cell
September 3
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How will the Arx Pax "tractor beam" work?
‘Big Bang’ – ‘Protogalaxies’ - ‘Protostar’
Products that are (generally) better the more expensive they are?
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination without pre-requisites
September 4
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Which is the best drink to replace fluids you have lost by sweating and why?
Magnetized magnet
Why have head-phones such thin cables?
Heat transfer of a candle in the wind
Colorado hawk-like/songbird-like bird call
September 5
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Amyl nitrite and catalepsy
Mechanical component that reduces rotation by force x
Name this South African grasshopper
Refusal to acknowledge mental disability
September 6
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Humans stiffen after death, but beef is tender
Double organ transplantation
Std statistics
Approximately how many generations of ancestors back to single celled organisms?
Cacti evolution in the Old World
September 7
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Noise of trucks
What do orbital space tourists need to learn/train?
What is a Deodora pine?
September 8
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Big Bang & Star(s)
Relationship between temperature and latitude
Theory of Relativity-Space Warp
Calculating the price of things that are never the same
Fat goalkeeper to occlude goal?
Civil engineering
September 9
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Pressure
Electric shocks
September 10
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DNA directionality
Is there some animal other than homo * species that make music?
September 11
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"Doctor of divinity" title and dubious characters?
why was this suicide of the Germanwings Pilot needed for the airlines, to make airplanes more secure against suicide pilots?
Seawater leaking between the plates
Is There a Name or Remedy for This Sleep Condition?
Newly discovered hominin species Homo naledi
Ageometre
Is soda water (water+CO2) is non healthy?
Is honey better than sugar (From a health perspective), and if it is what the reason
September 12
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neon lamp driver from 9V battery+step up transformer+R+C+neon lamp
does it make more sense to buy a USB bitcoin miner (seen on ebay / amazon)
Space flight.
Condensed Matter
Airline safety
Taser conductivity
September 13
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Difference between a large multiple star system and a small globular cluster?
Mostly cloudy/partly sunny
Source gated transistor
Over-sampling in archaeology?
Single-letter amino acid representation
Time traveller's age
Rainbow width
September 14
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about boyles law
Potato effect
Automated hypothesis generation and cell culture machine
Brain capacity
Namesake vocalization by birds
Nuke Mars now, ask me how.
Could dogs evolve language?
September 15
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information re subject listed on wikipedia
can durex lube be used for an ultrasound?
Data analysis: olive oil cuts risk of cancer by 62%
Static shock while cycling under a power line
Warning markings mimicry - why don't all animals do it?
Dopamine chemistry
Would bread spoil if it is placed in a 100% sterile environment?
Total tooth extraction
September 16
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When you die, what will happen to the microbes that live on your body?
Torture
Is Sexual Repression real?
Graduate responsibility
Terahertz astronomy for detecting nucleic acids near Enceladus?
Is Anti -persistence forecast skill statistically significant sometimes?
September 17
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Gains and losses at petrol pumps
Unidentified twig
Cone winding machine
Botfly myiasis in the brain
Gravimeter in weightlessness
September 18
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Who designs pharmaceutical capsules?
The miracle of two concave mirrors
Can I mine Gold of gilded objects?
Medical advice
E = M C squared
Closest animal to humans with more than 2 nipples?
Poisoning from wood when smoking meat
Why would an elephant do this?
Metaquestion: Why did my question receive no answers?
September 19
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Primitive solar observation
sole hair
Estuarine narrowing
September 20
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Why don't people use jetpacks? Because the tech exists, as I understand it.
why does the clock of Ahmed Mohamed has so many cables and looks like a bomb?
Magnetic core for an electromagnet?
How do electronic water conditioners work ?
September 21
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What is the lifespan of leukocites?
Diagnosis of schizophrenia (critique of the diagnosis)
Maximum feasible speed for a space ship
citation or reference to the chemical equation
"Waterproof" only not really
Disposal of medication
What detergents do you buy/offer the best value?
September 22
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How many people have died due to Volkswagen's defeat devices?
Concentration of odorant in natural gas
North and south pole
what exactly is the sense of this kind of a Tractor Road-rail vehicle?
September 23
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This Watch
Wavelengths from Outer Space
Why is BDD considered separate from OCD?
September 24
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Animals dying after mating
Waterproof light fixtures
Why are salt pans and dry lakes flat?
Physics question (unsure how else to describe)
Why is the Baja California Peninsula a desert area?
Which uses, overall, the least amount of water, almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk?
NOx in diesel vs NOx in gasoline engines
A few questions about prison hooch
Mutation of yogurt bacteria
September 25
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Fish tank hook up
Driving a steam train
is this airsoft weapon so strong that it destroys the magazine?
Icelandic rifting period
Saving lives and time paradoxes
September 26
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Are people with Asperger or autism more prone to stalking?
Musician's fine motor control vs. weight training
Superconductor question
popullation
Can small plastic test tubes survive freezing with water in it?
Question 1: Ton Of Gay Aspies?
Question 2: Getting To The Bottom Of Health Effects
Exploring Europa's Ocean
Armadillo Relations
supermoon
September 27
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Midges active months in Scotland
Visibility of nearby nebulae
Falling block and Newton's 3rd law
Sulfur in the Bible
Do banana actually causes to constipation?
Blood borne illnesses
Tonight's lunar eclipse
September 28
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Erysiphe and humans
Regarding the Placebo Effect and Nocebo Effect
Using disposable diapers as paper towels
I don´t understand this picture..
Were Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell right?
New species?
How many cavities does the brain have?
What happens to atmospheric particles lost to space?
Twins can have different fathers?
Similar appearance and mannerisms too
September 29
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Spider ID
Extraterrestrial life
More twin questions
Synthesizing acetone from urine
Discussing MyD88
Does penicillin have sulfa
September 30
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What compound is it?
Record number of daily seizures
This Watch
Meaning of elemental mass
Gravity and Hubble's constant
Superconducting DC transformer
Domesticated but not by choice
A Simple Amplifier