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Is there any empirical reason extra fine sugar might taste less sweet then coarser sugar in its various application - i.e. sweetening coffee?

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Is living in Manhattan your entire life equivalent to being a lifetime smoker?

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How large of a volcanic eruption would be needed to precisely counter act the last century's global average temperature increase?

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If the mass bee die-off stretches out long enough without fully eradicating honey bees, won't natural selection eventually force bees to evolve into a hardier species, thereby ending the die off?

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Is there any truth to the notion that the fat in Macadamia nuts, for example, is "good" fat?

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The placebo effect works - even if you know you're taking a placebo - so why don't doctors ever use them?

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If time and energy were unlimited in the universe, would we have a 100% chance of being reborn? (or at born, identically atomically configured, multiple times)?

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Would giant things/events appear to move more slowly to us because of their giantness? Would those same movements appear to move at a normal speed if we were larger?

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So tongues are muscle - then why is cow tongue more than 75% fat by calories?

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Is fear of the dark an evolutionary human instinct or a learned behavior?

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Is there any empirical reason extra fine sugar might taste less sweet then coarser sugar in its various application - i.e. sweetening coffee?	1
Is living in Manhattan your entire life equivalent to being a lifetime smoker?	1
How large of a volcanic eruption would be needed to precisely counter act the last century's global average temperature increase?	1
If the mass bee die-off stretches out long enough without fully eradicating honey bees, won't natural selection eventually force bees to evolve into a hardier species, thereby ending the die off?	1
Is there any truth to the notion that the fat in Macadamia nuts, for example, is "good" fat?	1
The placebo effect works - even if you know you're taking a placebo - so why don't doctors ever use them?	1
If time and energy were unlimited in the universe, would we have a 100% chance of being reborn? (or at born, identically atomically configured, multiple times)?	1
Would giant things/events appear to move more slowly to us because of their giantness? Would those same movements appear to move at a normal speed if we were larger?	1
So tongues are muscle - then why is cow tongue more than 75% fat by calories?	1
Is fear of the dark an evolutionary human instinct or a learned behavior?	1