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News Do you support legalisation of marijuana?
- kasse
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Skepticism forum lacks scientific rigor and is too political
- username
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Laws of nature, and creatures like us.
- vectorcube
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News Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
- JRDunassigned
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Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies
- Ivan Seeking
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True existence is that which is perceived by all minds?
- Martini
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What Are the Worst Movies You Have Seen?
- TheStatutoryApe
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Do Crawfish Live Under Floor Boards?
- Math Is Hard
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Old F*ts Rule! Tom Watson Leads at the Open
- jtbell
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Open carry activists at G20 in Pittsburgh: security implications?
- TVP45
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Is Philosophy Useless for Scientific Research?
- 0xDEADBEEF
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Americans like science, but don't understand it
- mgb_phys
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News India-China War in 2012? Analysts Predict
- hammertime
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What are the Pros and Cons of Free Trade between the US and Canada?
- tormund
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How Can You Solve the Classic Fox, Duck, and Corn River Crossing Puzzle?
- protonchain
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Who Has the Advantage: Fugitive or Pursuer in Flight Tracking?
- Loren Booda
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How to Effectively Copy and Paste Text on Your Computer
- DaveC426913
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Can we predict thoughts and actions from particle positions in the brain?
- Charlie G
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Woman remanded for breaching noise order through loud sex
- rootX
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News The Hate Crime/Racism double standard has to stop
- seycyrus
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News Criminality of bond rating agencies
- SW VandeCarr
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Bride's bouquet brings down plane
- LowlyPion
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Who is Wiser: Knowing What You Know or What You Don't Know?
- Loren Booda
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Funny things in the most popular Google searches
- junglebeast
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News Cannabis Debate: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
- Martini
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Is There Really Nothing Beyond Death?
- Martini
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What are the rules for this sequence pattern game?
- Quixotic
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Question on the ending of A Clockwork Orange
- physicist311
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News Why Did Sarah Palin Resign as Governor?
- Ivan Seeking
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News How we can solve the problem of the terrorism
- mohd_adam
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Are humans inherently parasitic in relation to their surroundings?
- WhatIf...?
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Mind-bending paradoxes
- Kronos5253
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News Why Did John Ensign's Parents Pay His Mistress' Family $96,000?
- LowlyPion
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GAO: tap water pretty much safer than bottled water
- gravenewworld
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What Are the Must-See Attractions in Los Angeles for First-Time Visitors?
- Niles
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News It seems that Roland Burris committed perjury over his senate seat appointment
- signerror
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What are the best places to travel in europe this summer 2009?
- nuocmy89
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How do debt relief companies actually erase credit card debt?
- junglebeast
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Will China catch up with the US in science and technology?
- Kinn Sein
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News FBI: Saddam Hussein was bluffing about WMDs
- gravenewworld
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News Rove Invoved In Firing Of Attorneys General
- edward
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Are Natural and Supernatural Mutually Exclusive?
- raven1
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Watch recommendations for someone in their mid 20s
- waht
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Tobacco legislation protects big companies while banning smaller competitors
- TheStatutoryApe
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Is Change Possible Without Time and Vice Versa?
- tanzanos
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Which logical fallacies are these?
- 27Thousand
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Is 'existence' a concept or an actual state?
- Descartz2000
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News A defector's account of North Korean propaganda and indoctrination
- Ivan Seeking
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Name for a particular time travel paradox
- Tac-Tics
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Sarah Palin: It Came from Wasilla
- Ivan Seeking
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What Foods Pair Well with Milk in Cooking?
- tgt
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Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to 11 counts
- Ivan Seeking
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News OK, what did George W. Bush do right?
- Loren Booda
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Is There a Need for a New Term Like Besist?
- 0xDEADBEEF
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Fighting the Taliban in pink boxers and flip-flops
- Ivan Seeking
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Can Chilli Grenades Really Control Rioters?
- Ivan Seeking
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News 2008 Congressional, Statehouse Races
- Gokul43201
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Plane with dead pilot lands safely in Newark, NJ
- EnumaElish
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The new James Bond, a revelation.
- Topher925
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Does working in science make you more frank?
- protonchain
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What is the impact of randomly censored words on TV?
- Pengwuino
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Priceless: Pat Buchanan owns himself at English Only 'Conferenece'
- gravenewworld
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Why Are We Wasting Energy on Idiotic Practices?
- Cyrus
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News Conservative talk show host waterboarded
- brainy kevin
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News Why Obama administration does that ?
- mohd_adam
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How long do you cook steak tips on the grill for medium-rare?
- Saladsamurai
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Is there more to Bueno de Mesquita's algorithm than just mathematics?
- Rhine720
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News Whitehouse visitor log now unavailable to public
- edward
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Food Inc. most important film I have seen in a while
- gravenewworld
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News California faces a $25 billion budget shortfall
- FireSky86
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Did Ed McMahon's Financial Troubles Lead to His Death?
- Ivan Seeking
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Do most intelligent civilizations undergo a scientific revolution?
- ideasrule
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Is Swatting a Fly a Political Statement?
- Ivan Seeking
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Is Consciousness Just a Temporary Phenomenon in the Universe?
- Avalon
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News US spies arrested abroad vs. spies arrested in the US
- Count Iblis
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Is the Guard from Heaven or Hell?
- dipinsingh
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Emergent mess of probabilities there will always be uncanny
- Gwilim
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Is Science Just Another Form of Religion?
- Phrak
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Watching "The Future of Food" documentary
- junglebeast
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U.S. dollar to be completely replaced?
- The_Absolute
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Kierkegaard said faith is the acceptance of objective uncertainty
- jamesb-uk
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TV Century 21 comic reprints volumes 1 and 2
- EnumaElish
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Does human culture require dualism or a soul?
- Stratosphere
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News Japanese detained in Italy carrying $134 billion
- gravenewworld
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News Is Fox News Biased Against the White House?
- math_04
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BRIC economies now 15% of world GDP, could reshape global order
- Astronuc
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What is the paradox about God changing moral rules?
- Pupil
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News Newt Gingrich gives esoteric civics lesson
- Adeimantus
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Who will win the NBA conference finals?
- WiFO215
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Can there be Artificial Consciousness and Emotion?
- Rex S
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Opinions on Nepali Young Scientist, Rijan Karki
- coverme
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Futurama Returns: Good News for Fans!
- Chi Meson
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Stanley Cup Finals: Pens vs Red Wings - Who Wins?
- MATLABdude
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Speaking of concepts where CLEAR definitions
- Sorry!
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News Pvt. William A. Long: Comment from the Whitehouse?
- mheslep
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What makes some people think more clearly than others?
- Frozen Light
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News Obama's speech in Cairo, June 2009
- Astronuc
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Is Synchronicity the Same as Coincidence, and Can We Quantify Both?
- LeoYard
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