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Forces Required For Steeling A Blade?
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The Maniac, by Benjamin Labatut
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How great is the overlap of Philosophy and Physics?
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Looking for a Recommendations for a General Science Periodical to Subscribe to
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Chrome dinosaur game high scores
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I Made a Thing! (AKA where did the 'DIY projects' thread go?)
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Dr. Eddie Boyes' Youtube videos on Quantum Entanglement
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Toyota Commemorative museum in Nagoya
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Mini road trip: South (and maybe north) of the border
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A question about where shall I ask this type of questions
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Social Media content creation glitches
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Colour of engineering drawing board, sit or stand?
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What were some of Norman Lear's most iconic sitcoms?
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Why do some hurdles come with adjustable bases?
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Good PDF Reading App That Can Bookmark and Annotate?
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RIP Shane McGowan of the Pogues 1957-2023
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What is the SMD challenge misery edition?
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Internal combustion engines founded in GBR and car industry collapse
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Last night Nov 23rd at exactly 4:41pm mountain time, lights in the sky
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Mathematicians Have Modest Goals
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RIP Rosalynn Carter, former first lady, wife of President Jimmy Carter
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To supercharge science, first experiment with how it is funded
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What hand tools do physicists commonly use in the laboratory?
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The Problem With Science Communication (Veritasium)
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Double Sunrise Phenomenon Explanation?
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What Causes a Staccato Rattling Noise in Central Air Systems?
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Another (old) example of fake news
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Could my DNA results reveal surprising ancestry connections?
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Introducing integral in textbooks
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Interesting article about the Nobel Prize "Rule of Three"
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Discussion on the science-literature relationship and more
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Statistics problem: Comparing written work with & w/out use of AI
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About the news of missing Titan sub
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Significance of a Mobius strip?
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"Big Bang" according to the 19th century poet ("Science-v-Poetry")
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Canadian Politics Boring Dispelled
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The British word "boffin" is polarizing the boffins
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Random dehydration and loss of fluid in the body
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Controversial: Harald Schumacher's Assault on Patrick Battiston in 1982
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News StackOverflow hit hard by chatbots
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Book Review: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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News Death of astrophysicist Hubert Reeves at 91
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What types of things do you get second opinions on in life?
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Are excuses for academic parties getting thinner or is it just me?
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Anyone Ever Get Slimy Substance on Sink Drain Filter that Keeps Coming
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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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