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- How to use Hertzsprung–Russell diagram?
- Does decay heating and nuclear fission generate the same amount of energy in the end?
- is any encryption other than OTP physically secure
- about mechnical force
- about transformer
- Did Homo sapiens get their pale skin and red hair from Neanderthals?
- does near-UV light cause photobleaching of protein?
- computer screens
- Can Potassium nitrate (KNO3) be used to supply oxigen for breathing in close quarters?
- Using the turntable in a microwave oven
- Haloperidol
- Is it safer at 5 pm after dark or 8:30 pm in the daytime?
February 4
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- Water decapitiation or being squashed like a pancake?
- What kind of spectrum is this?
- Earth spin and distance to the sun
- Is amphibia a paraphyletic group?
- Equation explanation
- Center of gravity below the center of mass
- lamp starters in series circuit fluorescent lamps e.g. philips lighting s2. how are these different from ordinary lamp starters e.g. philips lighting s10?
February 6
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- How big will sun be at first RGB in 5 billion years?
- Life form on Europa and Titan few billion years back in the history
- Special relativity
- Blue star-like object
- Would a "warranty cutoff switch" exist?
- science.chemistry
- lines of field
- Hawking radiation and Black hole
- Clenbuterol, doping or food poisoning
- does gelatin formation in chicken soup start during simmering?
- Not eating before surgery
February 8
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- Embryological Skeleto/muscular development
- Brownian motion as perpetual motion
- Sun leaving main sequence between 1 and 5 billion years from now
- nerves to size depiction chart required
- Unusual fungus
- about electrical plug
- Earth spin redux
- Violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics leading to violating the 1st law?
- the role of hormones
- asexual reproduction
- Plutonium inventory
- How long does ice in the Antarctic ice sheet last
- Brain and learning
February 9
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- Average lifespan of the stars
- Valence of argon in argon fluorohydride
- Why do we find baby animals cute?
- Magnetic liquid
- Stefan–Boltzmann law
- Some isotopes of superheavy elements
- Effect of exercise on metabolism
- Owl faces
- Hysteresis loss in ferrittes
- Testing medicine by ignorant tested person
- Brain transplant
- Race, gender, testing, intelligence, ability, and predisposition by distraction
- Absolute temperature ?
- light speed limit
February 12
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- Why has life evolved to use rare elements for essential functions?
- government brainwashing campaign
- Will a black blanket keep you warmer than a white blanket?
- Sun as a rd giant
- Can flu cause Epistaxis?
- Diamond cubic crystal structure
- Nitrogen(V)
- Astronomy stuff
- Amount of calories in different beers
- Negative weight
- Statistics books, applied to science
- Benzisoxazinone
- Snowflake symmetry
- Fukushima
- Molten fuel reactor
February 16
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- Motion sickness and flying
- Loss of appetite
- Relativity: what's wrong with this logic?
- angular velocity
- Chameleons distance from lizards and geckoes
- Basic concept of Ideal gases
- Gulls and distance from Skuas...
- Deriving the number of quantum states
- ?Uniform magnetisation/saturation of thin ferrite sheet
- Ancient Astronomy, Calendars & Leap Years
- X-rays
- Chernobyl on the Moon
February 18
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- in an unstirred bulk polymerization that proceeds to 100 percent conversion how can the effects of shrinkage and heat of polymerization be handled?
- Rechargeable battery
- Infectious non-contagious diseases
- which insect is this ?
- Spectrum of stars
- Flying a tethered quadrocopter
- Dissolution of Biphenyl
- Aluminum pot
- Pregnant cats
- Heliocentrism
February 21
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- Dual and quad satellite LNBs
- 100% efficient engine violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
- Tidal acceleration and the stopping of the Earth
- psych question
- Difficulty with understanding
- Earth proportion to blue whale
- Paintings and time
- young's modulus
- Extra moons and tides
- Pressure and the nonmetal-to-metal transition
- An astronaut on a very small moon...
February 25
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- can an exothermic reaction create ice?
- Semi conductors
- A ball rolling down an incline
- What does Lidocaine have to do with wood?
- distance and time to orbital velocity at tourist-acceptable G's at sea level, assuming vacuum?
- Animal fat fuel
- Slaughtering with a guillotine
- Real, Physical Status of Odyssey Moon
- How much of time dilation is a consequence of signal lag?
- Nuclear disasters
- The air-powered car isn't around - lobbyist conspiracy?
- Adding/subtracting sine waves of the same frequency
- Tryptophan in milk