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What is the best place to buy, sell, and swap old and new games online?
- Sadpanda
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What determines the unique identity of subsets within universal systems?
- SMERSH
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Glee GQ cover 'borders on paedophilia'
- JaredJames
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How Does the Takeover of Local Banks Impact Community Banking?
- jtbell
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Does that mean Perfection is Impossible?
- DR_henegar
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Do You Pay Attention to Online Reviews?
- lisab
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Does zero describe something real or just a conceptual absence?
- alt
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Geography of a recession: Animation, sobering
- rhody
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Is the 2011 Mediocrity Car Commercial Worth Watching?
- Evo
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Why Are Spiders Dominating Halloween Banners This Year?
- G037H3
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What Do Symbols Represent in Encoded Messages?
- ƒ(x)
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Is Science just a branch of Philosophy?
- ikos9lives
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Is Confidence Just Arrogance in Disguise?
- Edin_Dzeko
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News Are the Bush Tax Cuts Still Beneficial to the Economy?
- airborne18
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Is scientific knowledge worth pursuing if we can't be certain?
- Vexa
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Did Newton believe in a personal or impersonal God?
- zheng89120
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News Should the US drill for oil in the Bakken Shale?
- Andre
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News In Delaware and it is funtime for elections
- airborne18
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News Are Politicians Now Openly Lying to Secure Votes?
- JaredJames
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Tom Bosley, Mr. C on Happy Days, Dies at 83
- Evo
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News High court: Does father's pain trump free speech?
- Evo
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News You'll never guess who Obama us related to.
- jreelawg
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On the Necessity of Proving Things
- ikos9lives
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News Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, but people don't feel it
- WhoWee
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News Kim Jong Un Given 4-Star General Status at age 28
- mugaliens
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Mount Everest Review: No wifi, Rude Yeti = 2 stars
- russ_watters
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News What’s Really Going On with Alvin Greene?
- Galteeth
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What treasures did Scott Chinery collect before his death?
- The legend
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Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks
- Math Is Hard
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Is Economics Really Just a Guess?
- kramer733
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Are high frequency traders a threat to the market and small investors?
- BenVitale
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Optical illusions and brain teasers
- Evo
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Most Insightful, Clearest-Thinking Physicist?
- inflector
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Police blocked the highway then left without explanation
- Jack21222
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What's the Secret to Training Cats with the Control-A-Cat Remote Control?
- Math Is Hard
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Princess Bride: Inconceivable! A Classic Film
- turbo
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Is the FBI's Tracking Device on This Student's Car an Epic Fail?
- Pythagorean
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From Gutenberg to Gates - the death of printed text
- Ivan Seeking
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Warcraft and Other Blizzard Products to Integrate Facebook
- Greg Bernhardt
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Is World of Warcraft Addiction Highlighted in South Park?
- JasonRox
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Does Anybody Fish for Wild Brook Trout in Remote Ponds?
- Watson
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Understanding BISS Background and Requirements
- John Creighto
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News China's Nobel Peace Prize reaction
- waht
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News Petition against proposed internet censorship bill COICA
- MysticDude
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Do they inject police horses with steroids?
- dacruick
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Proverb: "No Paddle in Sight" Meaning
- pixel01
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News Could Kim Jong-un reform North Korea like Deng Xiaoping reformed China?
- rootX
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What is the difference between supernatural cause and uncaused?
- ikos9lives
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News Was Jerry Brown's campaign strategy to call Meg Whitman a whore a step too far?
- nismaratwork
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Human enchancement. Should it be done?
- CuriousArv
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Why Are You Conscious in Your Own Body?
- lacasner
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Is the $75 fire service fee fair for residents in rural areas?
- FrancisZ
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Personal, local and global meaning of life in an expanding universe
- Upisoft
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Is Moonbear's Expensive Cat Toy Worth the Hype? Ember's Review on Video
- ZapperZ
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Is randomness part of what naturally occurs?
- ikos9lives
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Is Time Truly an Illusion or a Tangible Reality?
- Mu naught
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Symbols - Used, Misused, or Misapprpriated?
- mugaliens
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Dr. Nakamats and his dream machine inventions
- JaredJames
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What does it mean to be smart?
- ƒ(x)
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Obama Returns Solar Panels to White House Roof
- Ivan Seeking
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What Are Some Unique Gift Ideas for Scientists this Christmas?
- wolram
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Can you fully control your dreams?
- -RA-
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How much of consciousness has been explained?
- Gold Barz
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News US Apologizes for 1940s STD Study Infecting Guatemalans with Syphilis
- Gokul43201
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What Do You Believe IT Takes or Mean To Be Cultured ?
- nismaratwork
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Balancing self interests with the interests of others
- niko-time
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News Where are the jobs? Perhaps they exist.
- Ivan Seeking
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Treatise on Tauto Logic and the Common Beauty
- litotes
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2011 Ig Nobel Prize winners announced
- lisab
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Physics/Math Magazines/Journals to Read
- Anonymous217
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News French Senate Approves a Ban on Burqas
- lisab
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On the Need to Name After Scientists and Mathematicians
- inflector
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Wonder if the top physicists get fanmail
- Tom83B
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Segway company owner dies after riding off cliff
- Jimmy Snyder
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What Factors Affect the Record for Fastest Pitch Ever Thrown?
- mugaliens
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Should inaction be considered as an action in any case?
- Jacky817
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What makes 'Sunshine' a must-watch movie?
- Kevin_Axion
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News Should all religions in the US be tax-exempt?
- turbo
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News Support for American/Nato forces in Afghanistan
- zomgwtf
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Is there such a thing as non-action ?
- jgm340
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Looking for a small TV recommendation for my bedroom
- Evo
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Some favorite pieces of art, film, etc.
- FrancisZ
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What counts as human instincts beyond reproduction and violence?
- groovist
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What does the Make Every Day Count ad mean?
- pixel01
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Is It Possible to Defy the Limits of Human Potential?
- wolram
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Hunting wild game in countries without guns or hounds
- Pythagorean
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Can time have existed infinitely long into the past?
- disregardthat
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News Is Removing the FICA Cap a Viable Solution for Social Security's Future?
- rcgldr
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Which No-Fee Credit Card Offers the Best Perks?
- Topher925
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Was Friedrich Nietzsche pretentious?
- Stratosphere
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Was the Shroud of Turin created by Leonardo da Vinci?
- alt
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What would it be like to be more or less conscious?
- Meatbot
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So I am curious how many PFers own firearms here.
- cronxeh
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Is there some particular name for this type of paintings?
- jackson6612
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Which Line Dance Do You Enjoy Most?
- rcgldr
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