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Most descriptions of general anesthesia (as used in surgery) include the use of agents such as midazolam or propofol. These are intended to cause amnesia. Why are these agents used?
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I just punctured my thumb rather deeply with the tip of a knife but didn't feel significant pain until I rinsed the cut with water. What accounts for my perception that contact with water was more painful than the initial injury?
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What do serious historians think of "Godwin's Law"? Are all conceivable comparisons of current events to Nazi Germany automatically invalid? Does popular acceptance of "Godwin's Law" mean that we think nothing like the Third Reich can ever happen again?
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In the world before the invention of radio and mass media, how widely-known were famous composers of the Classical era during their own time?
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A documentary about Simon Wiesenthal asserts that after Mauthausen was liberated, the Americans set up a system whereby prisoners were given "permits" to come and go from the camp as they wished. Is this correct? If so, what was the thinking behind issuing "permits" to be let out of a death camp?
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How was the currently "standard" size of a cigarette agreed upon? Why are cigarettes the size they are, instead of being (let's say) 3 feet long and as big around as a cigar?
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What's the earliest known documentation of someone explicitly describing the effects of marijuana or hallucinogenic mushrooms?
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Is it true that some victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings had their shadows etched into concrete? If so, what accounts for the phenomenon?
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