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Beauty and Brains: The Persistent Double Standard in the Blogosphere
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Football Prank: "We Suck" at Hilliard High School
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Is evil primarily a product of mankind or nature?
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Can I Learn to Understand Human Action and Reaction?
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Is Miss Teen USA perpetuating outdated beauty standards?
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Did an Elephant Elope with a Wild Bull?
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What's the Biggest Gap Between Winning and Losing Poker Hands Ever Recorded?
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Is Derren Brown's Mind Control Genuine Magic or Clever Psychology?
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Biodiesel and Carbon: Understanding the Environmental Impact
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Kids Zip Line to School - Sure Beats the Commute!
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News Gonzales Resigns: NYT Confirms After Labor Day Clue
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What are the copyright regulations for copying problems from textbooks?
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Why have my emoticons disappeared
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News A Parting Gift For the Coal Industry
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News Saudi Arabia Opens Rehabilitation Unit for Terrorists
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Introducing Hawking & Susskind: An Academic Tale
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How Did Dr. May Balance Academia and Entertainment?
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Run-In with the Law: What Happened?
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How Does Mental Illness Impact an Artist's Work?
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News How old is Grand Canyon? Park service won't say.
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What's unbelievable about the TV show CSI?
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Top Gun flight now available in US
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News Matt Cooper on Rove's leaking Plame's name
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Is the pursuit of knowledge selfish?
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News Closing the Gap: US National Intelligence Surveillance Law
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Did You Hear About the Stupidest Criminal Award?
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An Extravagant Wedding: The Chump and His Bride
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What is the Cryptanalysis for this cypher?
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Is peer review in science flawed due to the popular equals correct fallacy?
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Why do Westerners use coloured underwear?
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WikiScanner: See Who Edits Wikipedia
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Windy Weather on the Plains: When Storms Get Named
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Understanding Time: Is it Real or Fictional?
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Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas
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Scientists: Is it Time to Sex Up the Image?
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So, there is a 20% chance we are Sims
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Is the Illusion-of-Truth Effect Affecting Our Decision-Making?
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What Should Be the Nature and Scope of Human Morality?
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How much of your life is spent in a car?
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Shooting Michael Moore - Trailer & Reviews
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Why Does Boredom Lead to Craziness?
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Are My Friends Really Selfish: A Reflection on Growing Up
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Karl Rove and the Consequences of Partisan Politics
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Modern Skeptic: Examining Our Priorities
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Is Reality a Combination of Real and Imaginary Numbers?
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What is (the nature of) infinity?
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Are Sea Lions No Match for the Mighty Killer Whale?
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Alton Brown Quickies: Good Taste, Pepper Ball & Feasting on Asphalt
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Catchy Caption for the topic Adolescence and Indian Lifestyles
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What age do you start to feel old?
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How Are Indian Lifestyles Evolving Over Time?
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Dead Bee Line From "To Have and Have Not": Fact or Fiction?
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Flavors of the Past: Classic Recipes vs. Modern Blasphemy
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What is the root of procrastination and motivation?
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Is Global Warming to Blame for This Heatwave?
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News Was Pat Tillman Murdered for Poitical Reasons
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Iq test accuracy when there's more than 1 logical answer to a question?
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News Is the Government Crossing the Line with Unwarranted Surveillance?
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An omniscient God and consciousness
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Are ghost marriages fueling the demand for female corpses in rural China?
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Is Naturalism More Scientifically Valid Than Creationism?
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What Is This Outer Space Object?
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Infants Read Minds: Psychology Psuedoscience Evidence
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Will It Blend? Crazy Blender Experiments!
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Submarine spotted in the Hudson River.
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Is Murphy's Law Based on True Events or Just a Popular Myth?
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News Civil rights lose big fight to vacation time
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News World poverty rate reduced by growths in China and India
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35W bridge in minneapolis collapses
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Why aren't that many people interested in physics but on junk knowledge
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News Presidential elections: popular vote, proportional votes, winner take all?
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News Will the US use Nukes against Iran?
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News Help Mom There Are Liberals Under My Bed
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Did Tom Snyder's Unique Style Shape Late Night TV?
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News Illegal immigrant ordinances unconstitutional
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All major cities should do this if it works
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Did Mr. Ed, the famous talking horse, actually turn out to be a zebra?
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The Importance of Open-Mindedness in Scientific Inquiry
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Occam's razor - quantification os Entities
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I need to prove that astrology has no predictive power whatsoever
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News So much for controlling the border
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Dr. Who is a really entertaining show
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Of All The Animals to Bring to a Grade School Birthday Party
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If a van drives off a cliff with velocity, v, how stoned is the naked driver?
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News What is the function of the state?
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Realize the greatest gain in wealth using past economic information
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