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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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Dr. Eddie Boyes' Youtube videos on Quantum Entanglement
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Colour of engineering drawing board, sit or stand?
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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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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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The Problem With Science Communication (Veritasium)
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Double Sunrise Phenomenon Explanation?
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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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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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Does Bing Chat give reliable answers to math and physics questions? If not is it possible to make it more reliable?
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Nobel Prize 2023: Attosecond pulses
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My modernization of Definition I in Newton's Principia
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