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Besides cilantro, are there any other ingredients that have been identified to taste different to people based on their genetics?	14615
If communication and travel between Earth, the Moon, and Mars (using current day technology) was as doable as it is to do today between continents, would the varying gravitational forces cause enough time dilation to be noticeable by people in some situations?	2568
Is there a name for a “Dunning-Kruger”-like effect where people with a high ability in one field can overestimate their ability in other unrelated fields, perhaps explaining why some very highly educated people can display arrogant and ignorant behaviour?	43
If the Oort Cloud's outer limits define the boundary of the Solar System, does that really mean that the Solar System and the Proxima Centauri star system could actually be loosely overlapping? Do all planets have similar Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud type regions?	25
Other than price and jurisdictional legal requirements, what is the actual difference between one and three year rabies vaccines for my pets?	8
Why are humans the only apparent species with an appreciation for art&music and how can this be explained as an emergent construct of evolution?	1
Has the peer-review process ever been subjected to objective peer-review?	1
In layman's terms, how does the Alcubierre Drive work and (assuming unlimited funding, time and manpower) what advancements to our current scientific/engineering understanding is required for us to build one? Does this method of propulsion leave any kind of signature that we could detect?	1
In layman's terms, how does the theoretical Alcubierre Drive work, and which scientific & engineering challenges must we first overcome in order to build one? Would an Alcubierre Drive, or any similar method of propulsion, create any detectable usage signatures?	1
In layman's terms, how does the theoretical Alcubierre Drive work, and which scientific & engineering challenges must we first overcome in order to build one? Does the theory predict the creation of any detectable usage signatures when operating an Alcubierre Drive or similar method of propulsion?	1

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