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What differentiates oceanic plates from continental plates?

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How would inserting a floating balloon into the atmosphere of a planet from space be technically different from landing a craft on the rocky surface of a planet from space?

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How do mangroves cope with the salt in sea water?

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Some mammals have internal testes (Elephants, Rhinoceroses, Cetaceans), how do they get around the difficulties that body heat imposes on sperm production?

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Is a cat’s purring a voluntary action or an involuntary reflex?

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Is there a term in evolutionary biology for the opposite of 'koinophilia', where mate selection favors rare or distinctive rather than common phenotypes?

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In Aeschines' speech "Against Timarchus", there is a joke about how Timarchus was 'very well acquainted with the Pnyx', is it correct to interpret this as a joke about men cruising for sex with other men in deserted places? Are there other references to such cruising spots in texts from this period?

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How do archaeologists/anthropologists determine the sex of human remains (not limited just to skeletons)?

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When and how did pornography become legal in the United States?

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What families of mammals were living on the sub-continent of India during the period when it was an isolated island, after splitting from Gondwana, but before colliding with Asia?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What differentiates oceanic plates from continental plates?	11	askscience
How would inserting a floating balloon into the atmosphere of a planet from space be technically different from landing a craft on the rocky surface of a planet from space?	10	askscience
How do mangroves cope with the salt in sea water?	10	askscience
Some mammals have internal testes (Elephants, Rhinoceroses, Cetaceans), how do they get around the difficulties that body heat imposes on sperm production?	10	askscience
Is a cat’s purring a voluntary action or an involuntary reflex?	8	askscience
Is there a term in evolutionary biology for the opposite of 'koinophilia', where mate selection favors rare or distinctive rather than common phenotypes?	8	askscience
In Aeschines' speech "Against Timarchus", there is a joke about how Timarchus was 'very well acquainted with the Pnyx', is it correct to interpret this as a joke about men cruising for sex with other men in deserted places? Are there other references to such cruising spots in texts from this period?	5	AskHistorians
How do archaeologists/anthropologists determine the sex of human remains (not limited just to skeletons)?	4	askscience
When and how did pornography become legal in the United States?	4	AskHistorians
What families of mammals were living on the sub-continent of India during the period when it was an isolated island, after splitting from Gondwana, but before colliding with Asia?	3	askscience