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January 1
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- happy new year
- Habitable exoplanets
- Interrupter gears
- Watts and calories
- Given that glass is transparent to infrared, how usefull are thermal (infrared) images of houses in estimating heat loss through windows?
- science assignment
- OTC Medication Safety
- Kepler-22b
- Attractiveness by percentile
- Velocities
January 2
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- Unconfirmed discoveries elements
- Best solution for IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
- Use of Inhaler for Asthma
- Clock and sundial comparison in General Relativity
- Biological assignment
- Nickel content in Rhodium
- De-miting a snake and its tank
- Caterpillar identification
- Quick question...
- Distance that an electric current will arc
- Can we lose our soul?
- Conservation of Momentum and Energy
January 4
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- Neutrinos vs Neutron decay
- Ellipsoidal Dyson shell
- Shouldn't a helicopter be able to fly even without a tail rotor?
- Human chloroplasts
- Trying to recall some chemistry
- Galvanic metals
- Breathing air requirement?
- Why Ritalin against ADHD?
- E.T.
- Vacuum metastability event warning?
- Health adjusted life table
January 10
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- Mercator projection of Earth for a different rotation axis position
- Incremental cost per nuclear bomb
- Molecular form of carbon gas
- Suicide bombing
- Black lung
- Electron in a magnetic field
- Buying a Telescope : list of celestial objects versus magnification required
- Pure energy
- "wrought iron" vs "forged iron"
- steroids before steroids
- Are identical twins common in any non-mammalian species?
January 12
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- Why is my light bulb Power only half of what it's supposed to be?
- 1957 ufo
- Dynamite gun
- Electrical wiring question
- What would happen if the earth blew up?
- Field of vision... can we experience it?
- 'Magic numbers' in chemical bonding & more
- Degree of Unsaturation
- Electric chair and accidental electrocutions
- Probabilities of extremely rare events
- Does water possess an electrochemical state?
- Arcs of plasma
- Plank mass black hole dangerous?
January 15
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- What was "opening medicine"?
- superconducters
- Blot (biology)
- Evolution again...
- Genetically engineering healthy foods
- Why is it easier to make an electric car than it is to make an electric airplane?
- Photosynthesis Poster
- Forging a ring from fountain pens
- In which U.S. states are capybaras legal?
- crazy
January 20
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- Resource Monitor, Maximum Frequency
- Formula from normal magnitude to apparent magnitude
- Optimism bias toward one's own profession
- Please identify the animals
- Any evidence?
- Could the Rosenhan Experiment happen today?
- Distribution of individually wrapped chocolates within a box
- Offroad vehicle
- Gender & emotions
- What road-legal production vehicle model line has had the fewest traffic fatalities thus far?
January 22
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- Spraying water with alcohol to evaporate faster
- Men: shaved or with beard
- Machine
- c is fastest but what is slowest speed possible?
- Dyson sphere/swarm surrounding planet rather than star
- Time of sunrise and sunset as viewed from the Moon
- Equinoxes on the moon
- How can we join the definitions of entropy?
- Helium hydride ions
- Hydraulic Pressure
- Resting Membrane Potential
- Chunks of ions
- Rain vs. snow
- regarding to communicatio
- Fusor weapon
- Dyeing one's brain
- Lettuce
- Poisonous contrails?
- Nerveagentase
January 23
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- Maximum number of isomers from asymmetric Diels-Alder?
- alien missionary
- "Cat years" versus "Human years"
- Dr. vs. Ph.D.
- What health hazard does sand or glass particle which are used in sand blasting causes?
- permanent cure of stye.
- Energy density of algae produced biodiesel and biogasoline
- Farsi Island
- Size of the Universe at the Big Bang.
January 28
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- Terminology question
- Artificial melatonin
- Horses in roller skates
- diabete melitus
- If everything is heavier than the air we breathe why do clouds and fog ( which are water droplets) apparently FLOAT ?
- Sleep deprivation
- Incandescent light bulb self limiting current?
- Ships flying out of water
- Nukeproof armor
- Bacteria ID50
- Benefits of eating meals ?
January 30
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- Running and Coughing up Greyish Matter
- Bad invention idea ?
- Fuschias
- Why use a mechanical shutter to determine exposure time?
- Cycling over hills vs cycling arouund them
- Ice islands
- frequency limit
- Big legs through running or jumping
- Saltiness of salt
- Studies on factual beliefs being proven wrong
- Unwanted CDs
- Voluntary Eye Divergence