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Weird tendency of many professors
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What Was (Is) Your Favorite Summer Job?
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What are you supposed to show when you have no data to present?
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Nobel Prize 2023: Attosecond pulses
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How Many People Can Perform Quantum Mechanical Calculations?
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Who Is Your Favorite Scientist and Why?
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My modernization of Definition I in Newton's Principia
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Is my whiteboard actually porcelain/ceramic steel?
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R.I.P. David McCallum: NCIS & U.N.C.L.E Actor Dies at 90
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Room temperature superconductor paper published
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R.I.P. Brooks Robinson: Baseball's Greatest Third Baseman
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Ahoy! International Talk Like a Pirate Day: Shiver me Timbers!
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How much impact mass does a boxing strike need to compensate for slower speed?
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Is it normal for a student to get frustrated learning a coding language?
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Is There a Dark Side to Studying Statistical Mechanics?
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Slow Cooker Recipes & HVAC Revolution
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Where Can I Find The Ballad of Maxwell's Equations Sung to Take On Me?
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Starfield: New First-Person Epic Role-Playing Game by BGS
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A photoshoot at the edge of space
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Why is a Big Back Advantageous for Delivering Mechanical Power?
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Be Aware of Bias Before Taking Exams: Lessons from a Flight Disaster
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What Is Merkel Cell Cancer, the Rare Disease That Claimed Jimmy Buffett?
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Students' Complaint Gets Prof Fired
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When choosing your career, did you prioritize interest or salary?
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Movie about people who died forging a new trail in the north
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What can AI do and not do in physics currently?
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Bernie Marsden 07.05.1951- 24.08.2023
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Bears Invade Northern BC City: Pics from My Yard
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What's the trick to this "perpetual" marble device?
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Why Might a High P/E Ratio Be Attractive to Investors?
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Physics Forum: Stop Space/Enter Toggling Checkbutton
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Is Hurricane Hilary Approaching Miami?
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News Numerically Challenged Offers for Sale
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How Do I Calculate Actual Frequency from Wind Turbine Simulation Data?
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W. Jason Morgan, First Plate Tectonist, Dies at 87
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Lahaina Wildfire Maui: Experience Hawaii's Largest Fire Show
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Are the DBR studies really protected from Placebo effect?
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Can anyone identify this UAP in Weaverville, CA?
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How to recycle effectively (Lip service?)
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I need a second opinion on a sanitation fixation I've been having (TW)
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Engineering Cadre: Engineer, Technologist, Technician, Artisan/Craftsman
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What Do These Famous Quotes Reveal About the Minds of Great Scientists?
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US Arrested for Being Too Thin: Unbelievable!
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Funding from an organization and delay regarding that matter
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How much of an approximation are power measuring tools for martial arts?
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Where would you place anthropology on the index of "exact" sciences?
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Finances of Public Medicine and State Schools
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Encrypted radio system had unsuspected backdoor
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World Economic Forum's Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2023
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How to Spot Pseudoscience in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
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Is the Atomic Bomb a Hoax Perpetuated by Conspiracy Theorists?
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A web-hub survey to predict your best dog breed
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Do NBA Players Perform Better in Low-Tax States?
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Tattoos & Physics: Will Visible Ink Affect My Career?
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What were Tony Bennett's accomplishments as a legendary singer and artist?
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Is your website driving away visitors with constant popups and notifications?
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Germany painting airlines to look like beach towels
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Legendary Hacker -- Kevin Mitnick has Died at age 59
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Can't detach shaver head (Beurer HR 8000)
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A friendly species of pine for southwest USA?
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How do I learn 14 rock numbers (drums) in two weeks?
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Craft Beers, Microbreweries and Homebrewing
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More than one camera necessary for movement analysis?
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Example of debate on artificial sweeteners
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Help Settle Dad Dispute: Boo's vs. Yay's?
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Examples of Media hype of technical issues
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Most commonly misspelled science and math words
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When is the distinction between science fields applicable?
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Anyone here also a member at SciForums.com?
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Why are teachers the key to civilization?
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Navigating 21st Century: Transportation & Navigation
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Is it possible for people to mentally focus on more than one thing at a time?
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Alan Arkin Passes Away at 89 | Oscar Winning Actor
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Solving Rotary Friction Problem at Ye Olde Swinging Door
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What Does Procedural Grounds Mean in Legal Contexts?
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Titan implosion: underwater shockwave?
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What does the phrase "Mined to the ground" mean?
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On Porch Lights, Optical Geometry and the Ignition Point of Eyebrows
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UT mourns Prof John Goodenough - Inventor of the Li-ion battery
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AM transmission tower signal rectified in electric arc to generate audio
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Energy Saving/High Efficiency Clothes Washers Are a Horrible Design/Concept
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Velocity and the human experience
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Confusing tweet found on twitter about June 28th and 29th
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Is AI Training Itself a Recipe for Errors?
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How Can I Effectively Combat Persistent Roaches in My 55-Year-Old House?
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Mini road trip: Licking my chops
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The Case of Andrew D. (and how it connects with PF)
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Kernel tasks - spawned threads and spawned processes
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AI Art Source - Recommendations Needed
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What is the meaning of the word Avoke? (English meaning)
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Asking about a publishing company for my relative's new book and game
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Breaking Into the Field: Re-evaluating Advice Given
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The Hacker Max Butler charges (several questions)
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Will the Riemann hypothesis be solved by 2100?
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Avi Loeb + ʻOumuamua and evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Right handed co-ordinates and Left handed co-ordinates
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What Can You Discover on a Mini Road Trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway?
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So many people are unable to do simple algebra
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Is Youtube Flooded with Poor Quality Science Videos?
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What are the drawbacks of using non-anonymous cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin?
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