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August 1
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- Medical "treatment" of superstition
- What is the best way to evaluate the purity of single walled carbon nanotubes?
- What are all the easy and effective ways to separate single walled carbon nanotubes into metallic and semi-conducting?
- If a female goat is lactating and the human mother does not, then...?
- What's the highest octane rating liquid known? (AKI)
August 2
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- Maladaptive personality traits in nonhumans?
- Fitting a glass frit filter
- Atlantic hurricanes
- 2 degrees of warming
- Who makes the most oxygen?
- Rice and beans
August 3
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- Term for the brain's ability to maintain stable vision?
- Tr8x4(P2) Leadscrew
- Israel Border Police equipment
August 4
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- Why males in animal species are considered the default variant instead of females?
- Plant identification
- How is H+ (aq) + H2O distinguished from H3O+ (aq)?
- Particle, field interaction
- What's the lowest air pressure Earth life can reproduce in?
- Evolutionary pressure in mating
August 5
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August 6
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- How to determine electric and magnetic susceptibility
- Mounting Hole Diameter for M1.5 spring pin
- Flowers' identification help
- Weight loss depression
- Understanding temperature
- What would happen if you brought a horse to a big pressurized lunar dome?
- Wireless telephone in 1922
August 7
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- Hearing aid battery tester.
- How hard of a hit to the testes would be needed to temporarily incapacitate a gorilla?
- Pot with water, time to boil
- Why was the helical structure of DNA such a big deal?
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 10-3 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/27-291f977d2f.jpg JPG]. Lecture [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_10.html 10]
- Can biomass be sold in bulk to thermoelectric plants?
- How much heat does a CCFL output?
- Mystery caterpillars (San Diego)
- Do scientists know what type of bugs are required to colonize the body for healthy living?
August 8
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- Escalators changing directions
- Neuroscience question
- Cooling a CCFL bulb without straining the glass
- Lard diet
- Ventricular fibrillation by palpation
August 9
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- timing belt idler wheels
- Blindness to important information because of deluge of irrelevant emails
- Antibiotic resistance by production of beta-lactamase
- Which Gazelle species is this article referring to?
August 10
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- Rapid spiderling growth
- Shivering
- Is there a phobia of being in a building much narrower than it's tall?
- Mother of all arachnophobia
- Formula for walking on gradients
August 11
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- Why do vanilla ice cream manufacturers have to color the vanilla ice cream?
- Metabolism of high-fiber food
- Eat fewer Calories to lose the weight or eat the same amount or greater Calories to build muscle and thus increase metabolism?
- Is any new research still done with optical microscopes?
August 12
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August 13
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- Nicotine addiction
- identify an insect
- Pressure during gravitational collapse
- Fat
- Tunnel, sea
- DIY crappy chokes for VGA cables?
- Industrial uses of seawater
August 14
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August 15
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- How many hours after aphelion could "the moment of the year you're furthest from the Sun" be?
- Electrical Engineering question, Therevin reduction
- From genes to organelles, bones, organs, their parts and shapes
- ketosis
- power supply
- Does "Absolute Colorimetric" intent do any good under uncontrolled light?
- Are there any receptors that detect fat?
- In quantum mechanics an electric current can move in opposite directions simultaneously. Where can I find the Wikipedia article?
August 16
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- Can foil dissolve in stomach?
- gluconeogenesis
- Do computer weather models take eclipse insolation drop into account?
August 17
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- From static electricty to current
- Is duckweed edible?
- The moon is moving away from the earth
- Computer languages vs human natural languages
- Metal dust versus metal shavings when breathed in
- Hugo Gernsback and the radar
August 18
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- Low pressure and high temperatures
- Safe not-quite-total eclipse viewing
- Cloudy days and humidity.
- Role of the client in large infrastructure projects
- What is the ultimate cause of seasons?
- Does relying on refined cooking oil explain why we cannot get EPA and DHA from plant sources?
August 19
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August 20
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- Umbra speed on Earth's surface
- Runway construction on estuary examples
- LED bulbs and resistors
- Saving wild animals like in Operation_Breakthrough
August 21
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- The Octaeteris and the Cycles of Venus
- LED on mains power how is it possible
- Does Wikipedia have an article on the territorial behavior of various animals, including humans?
- Is it possible to have a total solar eclipse on a Full Moon instead of a New Moon?
- Would a solar eclipse be visible from the moon?
- Approximately what is considered a deep partial solar eclipse?
- Solar eclipse: why did the sun still look round in direct images?
August 22
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- Male autism-spectrum correlations with homosexuality, bisexuality, fetishes and paraphilias?
- Sunspots
- Gluconeogenesis
- Dissociation constant, Ph of water 'n' stuff
- STDs that spread despite use of condoms
- What causes red/green coloration in eclipse images?
- Physical mechanism of leafhopper song
- The Multiplication of Food Grains
- Biological maladaptions of living too far away from homeland
August 23
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- Before a storm, do electrons turn from - to + or + to - ?
- Name for optical illusion?
- What does it mean to have a mental age of 8 or 12?
- Design and build construction contracts
August 24
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- How strong does a pipe of water have to be.
- gelatin question
- Light concentration of a lens with a plane side
August 25
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- Eclipse on other planets
- Tree with the largest shadow
- Insect identification
- Study that involves babies that can chop long strings of gibberish into "words"?
August 26
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- Walden Farms
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-5 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/36-db138997f2.jpg JPG]. Lecture [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_12.html 12]
- Perception through yellow sunglasses
August 27
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- Dumper railway cars in Hungary
- Is it possible to speak chimpanzee if one is raised by a chimpanzee or a group of chimpanzees?
- Virus surveillance
August 28
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- Could a non-cooling planet with 100% water clouds rain everywhere at once?
- WP:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Architecting or Engeniering
August 29
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- Frequency dependent amplification?
- While shepherds didn't watch their flocks by night
- Aural boxing?
- LM317 - conceptual difficulty
August 30
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- Today's featured picture of moss
- chess and reasoning power
- Tamping/ramming tool
- hurricane water
- Rail and highways projects
- Shelf life of computer science books
- drag coefficient and lift coefficient
- Toyota alphard - first generation
August 31
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- Winds picking up at night
- Bucket-spoon for cement
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-12 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/38-c9a575d63b.jpg JPG]. Lecture [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_12.html 12]
- Why was Hurricane Adolph added to the name list?
- Are foot orgasms real?
- Rocket consumption and energy
- Is global sea level drop due to heavy rainfall events measurable?