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    Can we assume constant C14 to C12 ratio in living tissues?

    Well, looking at articles such as this one... https://phys.org/news/2021-02-earth-magnetic-field-broke-years.html ...it seems that Earth's magnetic field has went through some tumultuous instability in the past. What happens when it weakens is that it allows a lot more of cosmic radiation to...
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    PCB Design program of your choice

    EAGLE by CadSoft is supposedly quite popular, although I do not have enough experience with various software to tell how it compares to others. Informi (informit.com) BTW has a sale on an book on creating circuit boards using EAGLE, although I do not yet know how good the book is (I bought it...
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    How can different types of plastic be cheaply and easily identified?

    "Is there a cheap and easy way to identify plastic? Do you think that maybe some cheaper none FT kind of near infra red spectrometer would be good enough to sort different types of plastic?" Yesterday I read about this SCiO device at phys.org: Israeli's chemical scanner could change shopping...
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    Where Did Arthur Conan Doyle Get His Ideas About the 'Mormon Mafia'?

    There are two problems with using Wikipedia as your source about the Mormon history. One of these is that Wikipedia entries can be edited by anyone. The other you can gain more insight into if you check a book called "One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church" by Richard Abanes...
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    A curious phenomenon in Venezuela - Scientific American; Dec 18th, 1886

    Hi Ivan, looking at the Scientific American article it looks to me like the culprit could be ball lightning. best regards
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    Univ. of Antwerp Creates $4000 GPU Supercomputer

    sounds very cool. Does anyone know if it possible to build a computer with only a GPU and no CPU? Yes it might not be optimal for everything, I am just curious about whether it is possible with the current hardware. For example do any motherboards exist that can take a GPU (or a graphics...
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    How would the world look if all particles spin would align?

    Dear physics gurus, here is a question I have been pondering on. This is based on something my high school chemistry teacher once said during a discussion of "ghosts" and other spirit creatures. He said, about a statue near school, that it could not be completely ruled out that some random...
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    Why don't humans regrow lost limbs?

    Two companies have come out with some kind of "regenerative matrix" which, when applied to the cut limb, can trigger a regeneration of the limb. However the regeneration process is not like from a sci-fi movie but a slower process. The two companies that I know of are: ACell Inc...
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    Does group theory deal with asymmetry?

    I have a question from which you should notice that I do not have much of a clue abot group theory. At least not yet. The question is about that many introductory articles about group theory seem to refer to the use of group theory with rotations of bodies and their related symmetry. What...
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