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April 1
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- milk
- Our nearest neighbouring solar system
- Jacob Barnett: amount of carbon created in the early universe
- 3D for one-eyed Jacks
- Prevost theory of heat exchange
- parasite chain
- Pressure at the seabed
- Butterfly effect
- 'Carbonating' a drink with N2O
- List of nuclear reactors using MOX fuel
- Info needed on Broyer Canyon, Brown County, Nebraska
- Stanless Steel Grades
April 2
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- defrosting meat with sugar v. defrosting it with kosher salt
- Tool to calculate what temperature I need to change the air to, to achieve a desired Relative Humidity (RH)?
- Optical "Jacks" on the Back of my TV and Blu-Ray Player
- Selenium oxidation
- Removing Hydrophobic Silicon Product from car windscreen
- Can I repair a laptop charger with graphite?
- Are monkeys able to throw darts?
- Bold for first instance of abbreviations in journals?
- Himilayan glacial meltwater
- Human height and calcium
- Infra red absorption
- Keeping PIR-controlled light on
April 5
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- How long can wine be kept?
- Radioactive Water Decay
- some questions
- compair this two diagrams
- Have any miracles really happened?
- Confused about Lyme Disease
- communication
- LASER vs. CD-ROM/DVD moving
- Question about how long you can keep cosmetics
- What is it called when we perceive time as passing slower?
- "The faces of the dead bore expressions of horror."
- "S" internet protocol?
- Real or digitally altered?
- Unikont vs Bikont
- Fifth force announced at Fermilab --- maybe.
- absurd discrepancy of large numbers
April 7
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- Inspiration of Alain Carpentier
- Better table salt (potassium, citrate, bicarbonate, magnesium, calcium, etc.)
- Average weight of cattle
- Estimating moisture content of meat by its weight loss
- Why petals of flowers dont have rectangular or square shape?
- Chemical series
- Blood-brain Barrier
- Marketing prescription-only meds to the consumer
- Cells
- Super glue removal from skin
- Strange lightning-like flashes inside a room every night
- Poppy seeds
- Turning Jupiter into a sun
April 8
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editApril 10
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- Is there and hand-powered or foot-powered laptop charger?
- Mars Science Laboratory landing criteria
- Sound in space
- Question about the lightcone?
- Carburator.......mystry......
- how are methane and CO2 greenhouse gases?
- what kind of spider is this black one with a red butt?
- What is the best store-bought equipment to clean soot out of the fireplace walls?
- Calories per pound?
- are there calories in water?
- Energy source graph
- Canine teeth and monkeys
- Electron resonance and tapping
- Fog
- Chemical bonding
- Electron configuration orbitals
- Four-winged vs. two winged flight
April 11
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- DNA samples and testing time
- Efficiency of fixed wings vs. rotors
- Maximum carrying capacity of aircraft
- Giant Sequoia
- Taxonomy/Etymology question...
- The power of noise
- What will happen if bicycle tyre will be filled using Helium gas?
- What eventually happens to a beam of light?
- Eliminating sex
- UV emission from electric arcs
- Farmer's action plan?
- light-bulb
- Mining of thick seams
- wrong named structure
April 13
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- Speed of Earth's orbit around the sun
- Using decay heat in a nuclear reactor to spin a turbine
- whey gel
- Universe = black hole, for some of time... or wait, only in the sideways version of time, which is length (*confused mumbling*)
- Bear pit
- Mass-energy conversion of the human body
- Evaporated Water Consumption
- How did the hills of Rwanda form, and how old are the soils?
- Follow-up on cleaning apple juice bottles for recycling
- Do we feel heat from the sun because of Infra Red, or because of the energy in the entire spectrum?
- Procession of the Perihelion
April 14
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- Pseudoscience: suspended water
- FIBONCCI NUMBER
- Cardiomyopathy
- Pycnodeuterium
- physical education
- Differences between conservative and liberal brain
- xrays and vitamins
- Are there any trends in the half-lifes of isotopes?
- shivers down my spine -- are they endorphins?
- Breaking neck
- Why half-life is more important than total decay?
- Ionization of d-block elements
- Lugol's iodine
- Magnetism
April 15
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- Why is DC voltage used in public transportation
- Diagnosing an electrical problem
- Relativistic mass
- Triplet v.s. Singlet Oxygen
- Period food
- Pinion?
- Design pattern: both for software and art
- Live vs. recorded sound
- two questions about electromagnetic waves
- Discovery of rimantadine and references
- Head rotation
- Screen-width Problem in computer
- Seafloor river bed in Toyama Bay, Honshu from Google Earth
April 16
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- Question about gravity and absolute zero temperature?
- Help! I have some questions about Venus, Uranus and the moon
- Old Balls
- Translational acceleration
- Strange archive search message
- Sensations and the vocabulary to describe them
- What do glucocorticoids do?
- Infinite re-reflection
- Brain scan lie detection
- Nationwide ground stop effect
- Antarctic ice sheet
- 3 science questions
- Freedom of navigation in the Earth's outer core
April 17
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- Does FRET work on IGE?
- How to cheat reading eye chart?
- molten earth heaviest elements where
- Modern mammals nocturnal?
- Late-leafing trees in southern England
- Failure due to mechanical vibrations
- Is there a theory about the stuff called "Significant Atomic Mass"?
- Lewis structure standard
- Most reflective mirror
- Antimatter explosion
- Keystone species
- Glasses that correct for higher order abberations
- Getting cheese moldy?
- Spray to clean dog feces
April 18
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- Why isn't drinking coffee when tired considered negative feedback?
- How are each Harley-heads better than each other?
- Deja vu - but without the sense of experiencing that exact event
- UV and Air Disinfection
- Micro hydro and a home's power consumption
- galileo's theory
- Hand shaking
- UV TEA laser
- A question of which I do not now how to title
- Another query: Storage of Information
- transmutation
- Bouncy bicycles
- Ethanol Efficiency.
- Binding energy
April 19
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- A few questions about the Japan earthquake...
- "System of Care" health care
- Atomic number and qualities of the element
- Why only 92
- is there a formula from wavelength in nanometres to RGB?
- Electrodynamics
- Chickens in a container
- Having sex after working out
- Excessive caffeine and hair loss
- vitamins
- materials treatment
- Absolute
- Testosterone Levels
- FPGAs in space applications
- ChemDraw diagrams in articles
- Windward Islands and trade winds
- IBM Watson's size in 10 years.
- If cars followed Moore's Law from the 1925 Model T
- Craps probability question
April 20
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- Getting rid of double chin's fat
- A science question concerning light years
- Spy camera-type hardware to use as ocular implants for the blind - Why do I never hear of them?
- Would a rail gun give recoil?
- If there was not salt in oceans
- THE best way of transferring water up to top of the hill
- Rat population dynamics
- Notoungulata
- Hollow plant stems
- Smell of salt
- Edible plant parts
- Human kindness
- pvc
April 21
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- What's the species?
- potentiometer question
- ELECTRONICS
- marsh plant that needs pressure from flowing water to hold structure?
- Indian Thundershowers
- What does the word "Pinkie" mean?
- What connections should scientists explore?
- Reaction Gone Wrong
- can a relativistic proton change into a neutron? or break up into various particles?
- What kind of flowering tree?
- Fission2
April 23
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- Ibuprofen structure
- Perspiration
- how to pass entrance
- UHT milk in Greece
- ELECTRONICS
- top-antibottom mesons existance?
- Gold Vs. Silver
- Young's double slit experiment
- The effects of dreams on long term memory
- Speaker wire
- What is a Tripletino?
- Ocean surface lumps above sea mounts
- Recombining all the oxygen with H then how much more water?
- THE SUPERNOVA 1987A
- Active electronic metamaterials.
- Echos in the Treasury of Atreus
April 24
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- How should antibacterial news be added to Wikipedia?
- human as a mammal
- What kind of engineering will be required to make sphere wheels possible?
- window
- Chemicals in the body to counteract other chemicals in mood change- e.g., caffeine
- control valves in aircrafts.
- can cerebral palsy lead to...
- If there are call queues, why aren't there fax queues?
- Is there a service to send a text at a preset time?
- Origin of Potential Energy
- Typical discharge current
- Time travel
- chemistry
- Potential pollution in sea salt
- Kevlar Production
- Water splitting on a worldwide scale
April 25
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- PBS series about a family using 1980's computer
- Do avocados contain cholesterol?
- blood type
- Does Diet Coke cause cancer?
- Laser pump design
- Can a dish washer dissolve rubber compeletely?
- Pharmacology - Dose Effect Curves
- Trees and/or plants affected by white-tailed deer and invasive species in Maryland
- motional electric field
- NNRTIs and Hep B
- the kinetics of 3H + 2H ---> 4He + n