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Scientific American and Political Endorsements
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Questions about information limits in the Universe
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Facebook question on how to let friends see my comment on an article
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Is There an Economics Forum Similar to PhysicsForums for In-depth Learning?
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Hosting supplemental work on PF?
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Some wood carvers have too much spare time
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Is Time an Objective Measurement or an Illusion?
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Formula Needed for Role Playing Game
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Have you seen this Octopus drawing?
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Oxford Languages Gets It Wrong Again
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Was William Anders Killed in a Plane Crash?
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The one correct response to an insincere apology
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Can Physics Explain the Phenomenon of Love?
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Real World Tesseract
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A question on publication process in Physical Review D
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Which year did Newton first work with calculus: 1664,1665 or 1666?
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Retraction crisis?
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How to become brilliant?
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Scan Text from book ... edit text and then Post the edited scan
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The Jet Pak is Real
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