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Do wild animals utilize medicinal plants for medicinal purposes?

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What are the public health effects on communities that engage in periodic religious fasting, such as Lent or Ramadan?

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Did sauropods care for their young?

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How many and which distinct clades of birds survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event? How many and which clades of mammals?

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I understand, more or less, how haplodiploid sex determination is related to caste determination in eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants. But how are sex and caste related in eusocial termites?

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What scientific discoveries of the last ~100yrs have proven to be so important that they would have merited a Nobel Prize, except they couldn't because they were not within the Nobel science categories?

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Are there other taxa of herbivores that utilize foregut fermentation besides the ruminants?

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What percent of the mass-energy of the universe is just the photons? What percent of the mass-energy of the universe is just the black holes?

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Is the "backfire effect" a recognized concept in mainstream psychology, and if so, how is different or related to reactance?

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What difference is there, if any, between a polymer-based solid state lithium battery and a glass-based solid state lithium battery? What are the relative merits and demerits of polymer vis–à–vis glass?

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Do wild animals utilize medicinal plants for medicinal purposes?	1
What are the public health effects on communities that engage in periodic religious fasting, such as Lent or Ramadan?	1
Did sauropods care for their young?	1
How many and which distinct clades of birds survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event? How many and which clades of mammals?	1
I understand, more or less, how haplodiploid sex determination is related to caste determination in eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants. But how are sex and caste related in eusocial termites?	1
What scientific discoveries of the last ~100yrs have proven to be so important that they would have merited a Nobel Prize, except they couldn't because they were not within the Nobel science categories?	1
Are there other taxa of herbivores that utilize foregut fermentation besides the ruminants?	1
What percent of the mass-energy of the universe is just the photons? What percent of the mass-energy of the universe is just the black holes?	1
Is the "backfire effect" a recognized concept in mainstream psychology, and if so, how is different or related to reactance?	1
What difference is there, if any, between a polymer-based solid state lithium battery and a glass-based solid state lithium battery? What are the relative merits and demerits of polymer vis–à–vis glass?	1