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News Reversing Global Warming: Individual vs Corporate Responsibility?
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News The Impact of Alito's Nomination on Individual Rights and Government Power
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News How Much Government Funding And Control Over Science Fields?
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News High Crimes & Treason: Compiling a List
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News What's Next for the US in the War on Terror?
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The Atemporal Determinism and Freewill paradox
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What Are These Abbreviations For Familiar Quantities?
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News Why did Clinton pardon Marc Rich for just $450,000?
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Take a Vacation: Relax & Recharge
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What are you going to be for halloween?
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News Was the White House Guilty of Misconduct in AAPS v. Hillary Clinton Case?
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News Bush Administration: "Remarkably Clean
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News Unnerving wording in UN Resolution
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Chicago airport - Was I in danger?
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News Should Great Britain abolish its monarchy?
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News Smurf's Views on State Welfare Support
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Mindfreak: Stepping Through Glass
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Can Someone Buy Back Stock After Selling It?
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News Is the FBI's Expansion of Surveillance Powers Justified?
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My Weapon in Times of Turmoil: The Fight for Victory
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Have you seen the new American Scientists stamps?
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Life from a different perspective.
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Your thoughts on this well video
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How to Pick a Controversial Research Paper Topic?
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My Slipper Found - Joy and Mystery Unfolding
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Raccoon vs. Cat: What Happened During My Surprise Visit?
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Professor gets fired from MIT, falsification of data
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Should I Go to the Halloween Party?
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Immortality would you consider it?
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Don't forget to turn your clocks back
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News We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics
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Brian Greene: "The Past is as Real as the Present
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Authors of books on wisdom and life
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Is the Western World as a civilization declining?
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News Social Security as a Ponzi Scheme
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What Are the Limits of Human Perception and Understanding?
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News Side Topic for Great Depression Thread
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Is Wolram.com the Funniest Website Ever?
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What Makes Drug Movies So Compelling?
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November Birthdays: Who's Turning 25?
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News Support India's Civilian Nuclear Program ?
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Epistemology, metaphysic, ethics
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News Republican or Democrat? Who Reigns Supreme in the Scientific Community?
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News Rely on the State (UK) and you will die poor
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How Did the Diggers' Communism Challenge the English Social Order?
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News The World Can't Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime
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How many F's are in this paragraph?
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Is socialism a system or a theory?
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Should bedding cost as much as the bed?
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Is Voltaire's famous quote actually attributed to him or someone else?
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Agnosticism is not a logical stance
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Favorite Scientist quotes about Philosophy
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Is Discordianism a valid philosophy or just a joke?
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News Government milking us like cows; Oil
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Social Construction of Gender & Intersexed Individuals
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Do you really think there is a mythical force called Chi?
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Why Does Weather Change So Quickly?
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What Does the Phrase 'Stop Rape' Really Mean?
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Will Hurricane Wilma Reach Category 4 Before Hitting Florida?
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