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Is there something different about the human digestive system that makes fecal matter so dangerous to us, while other mammals use their tongues for hygiene?

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Why do Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Coulomb's Law of electrostatics look nearly identical?

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Question about hypothetical accelerating ships traveling at relativistic speeds and effects of time dialation

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What is the current scientific consensus about any possible genetic component to intelligence, and the validity of IQ testing as an objective gauge of intelligence?

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Why does my bathroom mirror fog up, but the picture hanging on the wall less than 2 feet from it does not?

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How would the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics be different in a universe that was contracting?

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Are numbers an inherint part of the universe, or just a particularly good method humans have invented for expressing what they see?

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Would a hypothetical ship using a "magnetic sail" as a parachute for braking produce artificial gravity the same way a ship using thrust to decelerate would?

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What causes "cloudy" bands moving through a dim fluorescent tube? [Video inside]

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Now that we are almost positive the Higgs Boson exists, is it theoretically possible to one day artificially change an object's Mass?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Is there something different about the human digestive system that makes fecal matter so dangerous to us, while other mammals use their tongues for hygiene?	1345
Why do Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Coulomb's Law of electrostatics look nearly identical?	16
Question about hypothetical accelerating ships traveling at relativistic speeds and effects of time dialation	4
What is the current scientific consensus about any possible genetic component to intelligence, and the validity of IQ testing as an objective gauge of intelligence?	3
Why does my bathroom mirror fog up, but the picture hanging on the wall less than 2 feet from it does not?	2
How would the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics be different in a universe that was contracting?	2
Are numbers an inherint part of the universe, or just a particularly good method humans have invented for expressing what they see?	1
Would a hypothetical ship using a "magnetic sail" as a parachute for braking produce artificial gravity the same way a ship using thrust to decelerate would?	1
What causes "cloudy" bands moving through a dim fluorescent tube? [Video inside]	1
Now that we are almost positive the Higgs Boson exists, is it theoretically possible to one day artificially change an object's Mass?	1