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How does the danger of electrical devices in water scale? E.g. iPhone/iPad/hair dryer in bucket/bathtub/swimming pool, etc.	1
There's been lots of debate over whether men and women can truly be "just" platonic friends without any consideration of sex. Is there any brain imaging or general research that sheds light on how one's brain might react to different "types" of friends?	1
Assuming the "light speed twins" experiment could be conducted, how would the biology of either twin "know" to age differently? As an example, why would things like telomeres shorten at different rates just because the bodies involved are traveling/accelerating at different speeds?	1
Is it just a coincidence that hydrostatic pressure increases at a rate that is similar to the speed of gravitational acceleration, or is there a relationship between them?	1
Our own voices sound different to us because we're hearing part of it through our skull. Is there a meaningful delay between hearing the "internal" voice and the "external" voice? If so, does the brain delay processing one of them to wait for the other?	1
Does the inverse square law apply to photographic equipment like grid lights and other "targeted" lighting, which reduces the spherical shape of light transmission?	1
"Balls on a blanket" is often used as a stand in for gravity. Are other attractive forces (like magnetism and the strong force) roughly analogous to how gravity and spacetime work?	1
When mentally ill people talk to themselves extensively, are they more or less dreaming while awake?	1
How does the relatively chaotic energy of a storm convert into the relatively consistent energy of swell in the ocean?	1
Does anything special happen to relativity when the speed of an EM wave is slowed down?	1

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