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Great News: I paid > $3.00/gallon for gas today
- Ivan Seeking
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Is the Perception of Objects Relative to Our Senses?
- Werg22
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Are Late Night Infomercials Selling You a Dream or Reality?
- edward
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How does subliminal messaging work?
- bassplayer142
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Who does not like the Simpsons and why?
- Ratzinger
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News Where is our super secret Surveillance System When We Need It
- edward
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How does one separate scientific fact from theory ?
- Holocene
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News Will Dick Cheney's prediction come true?
- Ratzinger
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Should Lisa Randall's looks be discussed in physics blogs?
- Ratzinger
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Football Prank: "We Suck" at Hilliard High School
- edward
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Is evil primarily a product of mankind or nature?
- Loren Booda
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Can I Learn to Understand Human Action and Reaction?
- darthchocobo
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Is Miss Teen USA perpetuating outdated beauty standards?
- Evo
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Did an Elephant Elope with a Wild Bull?
- Evo
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What's the Biggest Gap Between Winning and Losing Poker Hands Ever Recorded?
- Loren Booda
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Is Everything Really Just Energy and How Do Opposites Connect?
- LostInSpaceTime
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Is Derren Brown's Mind Control Genuine Magic or Clever Psychology?
- zoobyshoe
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Where can I find beginner-friendly hybrid car information
- Ronny88
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Kids Zip Line to School - Sure Beats the Commute!
- Thrice
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Conservatives 30% more generous than liberals?
- Loren Booda
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News Gonzales Resigns: NYT Confirms After Labor Day Clue
- turbo
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What are the copyright regulations for copying problems from textbooks?
- ehrenfest
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Why have my emoticons disappeared
- edward
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News A Parting Gift For the Coal Industry
- edward
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News Saudi Arabia Opens Rehabilitation Unit for Terrorists
- edward
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Who introduced Hawking to Susskind?
- Ivan Seeking
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How Did Dr. May Balance Academia and Entertainment?
- George Jones
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Run-In with the Law: What Happened?
- Squall
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How Does Mental Illness Impact an Artist's Work?
- hc_17
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News How old is Grand Canyon? Park service won't say.
- EL
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What's unbelievable about the TV show CSI?
- Loren Booda
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Top Gun flight now available in US
- Ivan Seeking
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News Matt Cooper on Rove's leaking Plame's name
- turbo
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Is the pursuit of knowledge selfish?
- Werg22
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News Closing the Gap: US National Intelligence Surveillance Law
- Moridin
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Did You Hear About the Stupidest Criminal Award?
- matt81
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Watched a TV show about an extravagant $180k wedding
- Cyrus
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What is the Cryptanalysis for this cypher?
- Yersinia Pestis
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Is peer review in science flawed due to the popular equals correct fallacy?
- Mallignamius
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Why do Westerners use coloured underwear?
- arildno
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WikiScanner: See Who Edits Wikipedia
- Ivan Seeking
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Why tropical storms get named but plains windstorms don't
- Evo
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Is time real or just a human construct?
- Just Passin By
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Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas
- fourier jr
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Do scientists have an image problem?
- billiards
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So, there is a 20% chance we are Sims
- G01
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Is the Illusion-of-Truth Effect Affecting Our Decision-Making?
- Math Is Hard
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What Should Be the Nature and Scope of Human Morality?
- Langbein
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How much of your life is spent in a car?
- Ivan Seeking
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Has anyone seen Shooting Michael Moore?
- Greg Bernhardt
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Why Does Boredom Lead to Craziness?
- Skhandelwal
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News Bill Moyers tough talk on impeachment.
- edward
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Karl Rove and the Consequences of Partisan Politics
- Ivan Seeking
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Why does the skeptics movement focus on the paranormal instead of politics?
- BoredNL
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News How can we best help victims of Katrina now?
- Loren Booda
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Is Reality a Combination of Real and Imaginary Numbers?
- Rade
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What is (the nature of) infinity?
- phoenixthoth
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Are Sea Lions No Match for the Mighty Killer Whale?
- marlon
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Alton Brown clips and videos
- Evo
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Catchy Caption for the topic Adolescence and Indian Lifestyles
- amritha_sish
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Scientific method/rationalism = faith?
- ice109
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What age do you start to feel old?
- Benzoate
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How Are Indian Lifestyles Evolving Over Time?
- amritha_sish
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News Is a Negative Voting Option the Solution to Electoral Dilemmas?
- matthyaouw
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Dead Bee Line From "To Have and Have Not": Fact or Fiction?
- Jimmy Snyder
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Classic recipes should keep their traditional names and ingredients
- Evo
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What is the root of procrastination and motivation?
- Skhandelwal
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Is Global Warming to Blame for This Heatwave?
- Cyrus
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News Was Pat Tillman Murdered for Poitical Reasons
- Skyhunter
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Iq test accuracy when there's more than 1 logical answer to a question?
- jake2007
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News Is the Government Crossing the Line with Unwarranted Surveillance?
- K.J.Healey
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Reducing demand for foreign oil and dealing with demanding cats
- Ivan Seeking
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An omniscient God and consciousness
- octelcogopod
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Are ghost marriages fueling the demand for female corpses in rural China?
- Math Is Hard
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Judoka considering Muay Thai and martial arts videos
- moose
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Is Naturalism More Scientifically Valid Than Creationism?
- vanmorph
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What is it game: outer space object edition?
- Evo
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Infants Read Minds: Psychology Psuedoscience Evidence
- rockytriton
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Will It Blend? Crazy Blender Experiments!
- Cyrus
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Submarine spotted in the Hudson River.
- Integral
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Is Murphy's Law based on true events?
- baywax
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News Civil rights lose big fight to vacation time
- Gokul43201
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News World poverty rate reduced by growths in China and India
- lunarmansion
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35W bridge in minneapolis collapses
- Greg Bernhardt
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Why aren't that many people interested in physics but on junk knowledge
- Benzoate
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News Presidential elections: popular vote, proportional votes, winner take all?
- BobG
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News Will the US use Nukes against Iran?
- Art
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News Political messaging in children's cartoons
- Ivan Seeking
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Did Tom Snyder's Unique Style Shape Late Night TV?
- Ivan Seeking
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News Illegal immigrant ordinances unconstitutional
- Math Is Hard
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All major cities should do this if it works
- K.J.Healey
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Did Mr. Ed, the famous talking horse, actually turn out to be a zebra?
- Ivan Seeking
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The Importance of Open-Mindedness in Scientific Inquiry
- PIT2
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Occam's razor - quantification os Entities
- Niv
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I need to prove that astrology has no predictive power whatsoever
- siddharth
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News So much for controlling the border
- edward
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