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News Ethiopian Airlines 737 crash discussion
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Photo Contest - Blowing In The Wind (5/4-5/10)
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What Are Pants on a Car?
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News Remembering David Jones: Nature's Daedalus Columnist
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Happy 22nd Birthday Evo - Best Wishes for the Year Ahead
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Photo Contest - Urban Wildlife (4/27-5/3)
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How do boarding passes and seating on airline flights work nowadays?
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Photos of a spider attacking a hurt bee
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Can I "inspire myself" in a physics book in a podcast/video?
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Getting Physics Lectures on an iPod
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Definition of Separable & Rules for Physical Systems: 65 Characters
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Free Resolution Testing with LCD Displays
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DaVinci Code question - Fibonacci Series
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Manipulating Social Media (and combating such disinformation)
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Photo Contest - Place Of Worship (4/20-4/26)
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Are short term liquid investing strategies better than long term ones?
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What Happens When You Play with a 3 Dollar Diffraction Grating?
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News American High School Students Take Note
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News Oroville Dam Evacuation: 180,000+ Forced to Leave
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Photo Contest - Rolling In The Deep (4/13-4/19)
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Solve Weedy Willie's Division Puzzle
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Shopping for a Nikon DSLR? Better buy it soon
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Math, science and bridge (+other games)
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Brain Mining: Are You Ready to Dig Deep?
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Chemical Element Haikus: Science Magazine Series
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A new kind of radio transient: ERBs, by Ali Frolop et al.
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Photo Contest - The Fog (4/6-4/12)
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Are Innate Ideas Backed by Science?
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Is "surefire" investment overcrowding inevitable?
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Can Bitcoin Become a Long-Term Store of Value?
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What motivates urban climbers to risk their lives for extreme stunts?
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Most stocks under-perform T-Bills
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News How Did Nobel Laureate David Thouless Impact Physics?
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News Sydney Brenner: Pioneering Biolgist Who Developed C. Elegans Model Organism
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Mystery Find: Can You Help Identify It?
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Is open science in Europe a double-edged sword?
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Photo Contest - Fireworks (3/30-4/5)
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March 14 coming (Einstein, Hawking, Pi-Day)
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What then, when if we know all there is to know?
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MHB Order Matters: Intro to Pure Mathematics Module
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How we can explain our process of thinking by physics?
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What is the role of schools and universities?
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Photo Contest - Meat and Potatoes (3/23-3/29)
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Dealing with Old Age: FDA Supplements & Reports | NY Times
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Photo Contest - On A Clear Day.... (3/16-3/22)
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Do any of the higher classes require memorization?
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Is Karen Uhlenbeck the First Woman to Win the Abel Prize?
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Solar power: a looming environmental disaster?
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Time reversion (pop science show)
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Photo Contest - Standing On My Own 2 Feet (3/9-3/15)
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News What's Happening Behind the Scenes at WWF?
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Auto Loan, Cash Back, Pay Off Instantly - Recommendation
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Is a Carbon Wick Water Purifier Effective for Mineralized and Impure Water?
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News Scientists turn CO2 back into coal
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Photo Contest - Magnetism (3/2-3/8)
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How do you gain your confidence back?
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Building a linear accelerator -- radiation shielding, O2-,
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What Are the Most Common Stereotypes of Physicists?
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CERN's Next Mega Collider - A live event from the RI
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Dog Summits 23,389-foot Baruntse, in Nepal’s Himalaya
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Who Was Wolfgang Rindler and What Was His Impact on Cosmology?
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Mentoring is Good for the Mentor and Mentee
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Why Did You Choose Your Avatar for Wikipedia?
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Why did my bicycle speed increase on smooth pavement while coasting downhill?
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Why is my tax refund lower this year than last year?
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Is Science Education Unscientific?
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How is mathematics related to creativity?
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David Kaplan lecture on Particles and the Nature of Nothing
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Is it silly to complain about being praised all the time?
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What Happened to the PF User Creator?
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About some information on research funding
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Photo Contest - Memory Sticks (2/23-3/1)
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Do you think we are alone in the Milky Way?
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Importance of uncertainty and probability in research papers
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What a Shame we can't cite from popular sources
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Is it normal for professors to allow cheat-sheets in tests?
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Nutritional value of ready-made meals
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Name of a scientist who introduced many words into English?
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What Is It? Update: New Use for a Business Card Holder
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Photo Contest - Captain Hook (2/16-2/22)
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What might global health care be?
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MHB What is the formula for the volume of a thick crust pizza?
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Mortgages: fixed vs variable rates
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Can you identify these scientists?
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MHB Why Was a Loan Refused to sin2r = 2sin r?
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News What do theoretical physicists do?
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Is It Time to Upgrade Your Beloved Truck?
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Is There a Safe Way to Beat Inflation?
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Location: Beating the Market by Saving?
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What is the opposite of light in the balance of nature?
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Papers with fewer authors are more disruptive
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Photo Contest - Annoyance (2/9-2/15)
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What Did Einstein Mean by z is keeping your mouth shut?
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How to write BB codes in this forum?
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Happy Darwin Day! Don't Forget It
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Is Catholicism the solution to resolving controversies and promoting morality?
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Is having a genius IQ a prerequisite to be the next Einstein
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Do you think Tau Ceti e is inhabited?
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Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?
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Rubik's Cube: A Favorite Puzzle Among IT Experts and Scientists
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