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Is modern farm soil really depleted of much of its mineral content, such as magnesium, leaving food without enough minerals to absorb?	1
How do researchers square the evidence for inescapable genetic sleep chronotypes with studies showing that those exposed to natural light cycles seem to become "morning people"?	1
Human-induced climate change has tons of supporting evidence, but some scientists offer alternate theories - in the history of modern science, has additional data or new theory ever totally overturned such a huge body of evidence, and the theories drawn from it?	1
Are any food actually "pro inflammatory, and why do they inflame the body?"	1
Why does testosterone fluctuate throughout the year? Have scientists observed the same variations occurring where it's mostly sunny and warm all year, like on Hawaii?	1
When urine sits in a toilet bowl, diluted in the water, it will start to smell pretty horribly after a few days. What process is it going through to bring this about?	1
Hollywood depicts poisoned blowgun darts and arrows as acting almost instantaneously on humans, either killing someone or knocking them unconscious without fail. How realistic are these depictions, and what plants and animals were the poisons gathered from?	1
Would you consider the research studying "Pranic Healing" and "Twin Hearts Meditation" to be questionable?	1
How much, if at all, have attention spans declined since 2000? My friend, a professor of English, says his college Freshmen struggle reading anything over short-story length, which was not the case 15 years ago. Do we have evidence that fewer people can understand complex stories/ideas?	1
Can oil "protect" a person from water?	1

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