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Why is Airplane Fare A-B-C-D Often Cheaper than B-C?
- Hornbein
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FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022 (Madrid, UTC+1)
- fresh_42
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Has anyone used Semantic Scholar for finding research papers?
- BillTre
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What is the true meaning of life?
- Delta2
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Russian soldiers can refuse to fight?
- sbrothy
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How is Inflation Affecting Your Daily Expenses?
- kyphysics
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NASA's Perseverance rover carries a pet rock on Mars
- jim mcnamara
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Describing consciousness mathematically
- Chenkel
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Citation bias in published papers
- Astronuc
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Is Humanity Detectable Everywhere on Earth?
- newjerseyrunner
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Was Einstein Right About Imagination vs. Knowledge?
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Are you a kind, benevolent Master?
- DaveC426913
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Can High Intelligence Truly Govern Our Emotions?
- PainterGuy
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But in the end, it doesn't even matter
- beamthegreat
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Almost 9000 authors on this paper
- BWV
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What Are the Worst Damages of a Russia-Ukraine Nuclear War?
- Arceus
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May need to go to my storm shelter early in the morning
- dlgoff
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Do any of you Aussies recognise this location?
- jtbell
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Recipes that use Thai curry paste without coconut ingredients?
- Stephen Tashi
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News Chess and Ukraine: Gary Kasparov, Putin, and Chess.com
- neilparker62
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That Will Smith and Chris Rock thing
- pinball1970
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Are You Aware of How Many Predatory Journals Exist?
- Buzz Bloom
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Opposite opinions about Elon Musk
- wrobel
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People-first language: person-centered terminology
- DaveC426913
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McSweeney's : "Signs You Work In The 'Cool' Lab"
- GoBucks24
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Is there a perfect solution to the trolley problem?
- DaveC426913
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- Poll
Are there Limits to Human Understanding in Physics and Mathematics?
- beamthegreat
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Senate approves permanent daylight saving time bill
- dlgoff
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Could the Ukraine situation start a US-Russia war?
- fresh_42
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KU Basketball: Champions of NCAA!
- dlgoff
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Favorite dinosaurs and extinct creatures
- Isopod
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Where Do Systems Belong Among the Sciences?
- BillTre
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How Can Artists Innovate in Science Collaborations?
- Isopod
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How Can We Restore Faith in Humanity?
- Jarvis323
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Newsticker to "the special military operation" of Russia in Ukraine
- fresh_42
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Beauty and wonder of science boosts researchers’ well-being
- Melbourne Guy
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What could ecommerce services offer on long train journeys?
- akerkarprashant
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Difference between trademark and design right?
- shivajikobardan
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Tricycle racing a good contender in future Olympic games?
- akerkarprashant
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Why serendipity elements are called serendipity?
- feynman1
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State of the Union Address by Biden
- dlgoff
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UK power refunds for Halifax and Newcastle postcodes
- anorlunda
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Gift ideas for sword-waving, drinking, leather-bound biker chick
- DaveC426913
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How Does a 180 Degree Car Turn Look with Yakety Sax Music?
- phinds
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How to revise AI concepts for an exam without just memorizing
- shivajikobardan
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Optical illusions that flip between concave and convex
- berkeman
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Do we control our thinking or are our thoughts shaped by experience?
- frost_zero
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What are the Styrofoam rods for in the MIG air intake?
- dlgoff
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Why is the consumer society dominating in today's world?
- Spathi
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What is Bamber Gascoigne's Legacy?
- PeroK
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Bad technical journal article indicators
- Frabjous
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Winter Olympics (Beijing) 2022: February 4th thru 20th
- kyphysics
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Stockfish Explains Classic Chess Games
- PeroK
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Is Smiling Allowed in Soviet Schools?
- wrobel
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COVID How has COVID affected your school?
- Trollfaz
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Buy and Hold Beats Active Investing
- bhobba
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What are the underlying structures of multiple primal entities?
- Growler
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What is the paper trying to say…
- Adrian Lee
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Panel of judges in Supreme Court - Odd number?
- akerkarprashant
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Are Old Weather Conditions Officially Tracked?
- kyphysics
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Was Sidney Poitier one of the greatest actors of all time?
- phinds
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How to wake up early in morning in WINTER?
- shivajikobardan
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Why Darmok is the best Star Trek: TNG episode
- dlgoff
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How does the free market prevent monopolies?
- Ehden
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What's your favorite type of bread?
- ergospherical
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Why do some Jeopardy hosts hesistate before saying "Correct"?
- berkeman
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What would it take to convince you of magic / supernatural?
- newjerseyrunner
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Shutting Down Social Media to Prevent Destruction in Schools?
- dlgoff
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Do You Put the $ Amount on Gift Cards?
- kyphysics
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How Does Aging Change Our Perception of Ourselves?
- tribdog
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Carlsen likely to win world championship after two victories
- david2
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Is the Ninja Juicer Edge Worth the Upgrade?
- triley
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What does Alain Connes think of Tegmark's hypothesis?
- Suekdccia
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So what are dreams made of? How do they differ from our waking reality?
- cmb
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Wondering about Australian anti-trolling laws for social media
- Melbourne Guy
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Is the Soul Equation a Legitimate Scientific Concept?
- pinball1970
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Any ideas what these green/white checkerboard patterns are used for?
- berkeman
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Do repeatable experiments define science, or are there exceptions?
- LightningInAJar
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How many items does Amazon need to sell per day to justify market cap?
- ergospherical
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Is the Rise of Anti-Work Taking Over Reddit?
- kyphysics
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Video games have become a joke (way too easy to finish)
- fluidistic
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Can Home Repair or Renovations Reduce One's Taxes?
- kyphysics
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PSA Dont scale a cliff while on a hike
- jedishrfu
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How is metaphysics defined and where does it border physics?
- LightningInAJar
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UC Santa Barbara's proposed "dormzilla"
- jtbell
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[Philosophy of science] Bias inherent in the Scientific Method itself?
- onomatomanic
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What is the Latest Update on the US Federal Science Budget?
- StatGuy2000
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News How Can We Identify and Defend Against Rhetorical Techniques of Unreason?
- SimplePrimate
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Do open hardware licenses prevent patents (globally)?
- hb8yh8
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Can the Simulation Hypothesis be verified or falsified?
- Q-1
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What did Albert Einstein mean by 'Nothing happens until something moves'?
- James William Hall
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News Nicole Oliveira, I hope we'll hear more from you
- fresh_42
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Great Movies and Series [Not Sci-Fi]
- Ivan Seeking
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Movie Classics that totally escape me
- Bystander
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T-Mobile says data breach affects more than 40 million people
- Evo
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J S Bach visualized Cello Suite #1
- jim mcnamara
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My friend thinks I'm arguing when I explain my opinion, I wonder why?
- Ertiyu
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US College enrollment 60-40 female
- Ivan Seeking
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Simple commercials that stick with you
- Ivan Seeking
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