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Unintelligent design - by viruses

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What Could Cause a Near Blackout with No Lasting Effects?

  • wolram
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Medical Is there a genetic component to laziness?

  • kant
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What is the best Treatment for scrapes?

  • Integral
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News Should we develop bird flu vaccines before a pandemic?

  • Berislav
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  • Poll Poll

Which of these animals experiences something?

  • PIT2
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There could be Intelliengent life 26 light years away

  • scott1
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Drug Concentration: Estimating Drug Levels in the Body

  • madoxx
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Why does my boyfriend's breath smell like rotten eggs so quickly?

  • phospholine1
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Medical Mirror neuron system for disgust in the insula and cingulate

  • hypnagogue
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Medical Mentally disabled adults learn lessons in love (article)

  • CosminaPrisma
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Silver staining and chromosome spreads

  • kalladin
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Medical Hunger Molecule Promotes Cocaine Cravings (news article and journal article)

  • CosminaPrisma
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Where does the heart's initial electrical charge come from?

  • dleacock
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Why do blood vessels in my eyes swell when I'm tired?

  • Mk
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Medical Experienced transcending space and time

  • Ad Infinitum NAU
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Medical Wasp Larvae can take over spider's brain

  • CosminaPrisma
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How are Cell Adhesion and Detachment Different?

  • RPI_Quantum
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Medical How does the temporal lobe influence dreaming and lucid experiences?

  • Mk
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Medical Alcohol exposure and recovery of hippocampal neurogenesis in adult rats

  • DocToxyn
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Medical What educational background do neural engineers typically have?

  • CosminaPrisma
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Can Nucleotides Spontaneously Form DNA in Aqueous Solution?

  • Loren Booda
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Medical Capgras delusion and rare psychiatric conditions

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is It Possible to Overdose on Chocolate?

  • Pengwuino
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Treating ich in clown loaches without formalin

  • DaveC426913
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When force is applied to the abdominal area. .

  • kryptos
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Medical A Single Memory Is Processed In Three Separate Parts Of The Brain

  • CosminaPrisma
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Is a Cure for AIDS Finally Within Reach?

  • Tom McCurdy
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Medical Could Botulin Toxin be a Potential Cure for Cancer?

  • munky99999
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Medical Searching for the Person in the Brain [NY Times]

  • hypnagogue
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Child recovering from pneumonia after flu

  • Evo
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Best sitting position for work, study and meditation

  • Spirit
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Shoulder blade cramp: will potassium help?

  • Math Is Hard
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Gender Gene Expression in Males vs. Females

  • Username55
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Ways to limit cellular division for longevity

  • Jikx
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How Do Animals Separate the Cord from the Fetus?

  • DaveC426913
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Do mosquitoes and flies fly at the same height?

  • Mk
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The Evolution of Apes and Humans

  • pivoxa15
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Medical How do addiction and phobias work neurologically?

  • munky99999
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Medical Can paranoia and arrogance be adaptive when justified?

  • munky99999
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Medical Is the arrow of time a mental construct?

  • fuzzyfelt
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Can WHO prevent a bird flu pandemic in Africa?

  • Sprinter
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Is Chocolate Causing Your Pimples?

  • Monique
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Why did major evolutionary transitions happen?

  • FeynmanMH42
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New species discovered in Indonesian jungle expedition

  • Gokul43201
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Medical Why does the brain use so much energy compared to muscles?

  • Line
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Sleep Deprivation: A Walking Zombie’s Tale

  • Cyrus
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Why do people have hair on their arms/legs?

  • Pengwuino
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Why Doesn't Vasodilation Always Affect Blood Flow to Organs?

  • gamecube999
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Discussion of sudden origins of species hypothesis

  • Rade
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3D bioprinting of functional organ tissues

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is it possible for chemistry to explain all of biology?

  • pivoxa15
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Sleeping at night VS sleeping in the daytime. Difference?

  • hkhil
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Medical My Bionic Quest for Boléro [Wired Magazine]

  • hypnagogue
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Does evolution logically follow from mutation and selection?

  • Another God
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Medical Kisspeptin signaling in GnRH release journal club

  • Moonbear
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Is open-heart surgery worth considering for multiple cardiac issues?

  • GENIERE
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What happens when an animal enters a species' local habitat?

  • Bimbar
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Why do muscles twitch involuntarily?

  • Mk
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Life only physical/chemical reaction?

  • beta3
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Does Oxygen Intake Affect the Whiteness of the Sclera?

  • dumbadum
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Medical Why are some people left-handed but right-footed?

  • En_lizard
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What is the Wavelength of Energy Used in Cell Bonding?

  • |Orion's Thought|
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Medical What actually happens in parkinsonism?

  • Harrish
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Why do you fall asleep in snow and why is it dangerous?

  • En_lizard
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Medical Experiment with smaller children

  • WackyTaffy
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What is the Disease that Turns Muscles into Bones?

  • darla
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Medical Do shark extracts have proven medicinal benefits?

  • Monique
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Is Removing Earwax by Yourself Safe?

  • Mk
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How Does a Face Transplant Transform Life and Identity?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What Could You Achieve with 360 Degree Joints?

  • Mt. Nixion
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Medical Underestimation of animal intelligence?

  • Leonardo Sidis
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The Possibilities of Stem Cell Therapy - A Cure For All?

  • Lisa!
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Are Mosquitoes Attracted to the Color Black?

  • siddharth
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Medical Starting a neuroscience journal club

  • hypnagogue
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Where exactly do tiny ants come from ?

  • Cardilac
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Why Are Humans More Intellectually Advanced Than Other Species?

  • WackyTaffy
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Octopus attraction to ROV lights

  • Ivan Seeking
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Skin Absorption of Mercury and its Compounds: Fact or Myth?

  • force
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Determining Someone's Age Through Body Examination

  • ThomasFuhlery
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Why do I feel more tired after going back to sleep?

  • iggybaseball
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Medical LSD and cognitive effects in technical professionals

  • hypnagogue
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Which Monosaccharides are Indigestible to Humans?

  • bomba923
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Submerging yourself to get body fat %?

  • Pengwuino
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Why does my head sweat more than the rest of my body?

  • Mk
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Can eating too many limes cause stomach problems and kidney stones?

  • dumbobie
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How does antibody staining work in fluorescence microscopy?

  • RPI_Quantum
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Healthy Aging: Discussing Senescence

  • Astronuc
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Is Swallowing Chewed Gum Healthy?

  • Mk
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How deep do bacteria travel within the Earth's crust?

  • Loren Booda
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Why can't we incorporate shark immune system genes into human immunity?

  • munky99999
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Medical Nonorganic Brain? Can Machines Think Like Humans?

  • pivoxa15
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I'm going to do something. I NEED TO know if it's safe

  • tribdog
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Why Is a Deep-Sea Whale in the Thames?

  • hypnagogue
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Tai Shan panda cub video from Discovery Channel

  • Astronuc
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Medical How we so exactly recognize people

  • Pengwuino
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Women can see again after Heart attack

  • scott1
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Why does fat taste so good?

  • WackyTaffy
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