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Dust stuck to an LCD screen, only in patches over the magnets holding the glass on. Why?

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What kinds of chemicals make a perfume smell 'sweet', and why do we associate them with sweet tastes?

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Could you make an arbitrarily small firearm? Would the forces scale usefully or would the square-cube ratio be a problem?

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Treating gastric ulcers with antibiotics to kill H. Pylori was only developed relatively recently - yet people were already taking them for other conditions. Had nobody correlated spontaneous remission of ulcer symptoms with antibiotics?

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Would cutting huge canals right through Australia result in more rainfall in inland regions?

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If time is just another dimension, could 'spooky action at a distance' happen at either end of a temporal rather than spatial separation?

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What pigments are responsible for brightly-colored bird feathers?

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What plausible potential development in your field could be too dangerous to make public?

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Flashing lights can lead to seizures in photosensitive epileptics; could other stimuli lead to runaway effects in neurotypical people?

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If you had a tiny compass hooked up to some tiny head-mounted electromagnets, could you send a carrier pigeon to the destination of your choice?

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Dust stuck to an LCD screen, only in patches over the magnets holding the glass on. Why?	1
What kinds of chemicals make a perfume smell 'sweet', and why do we associate them with sweet tastes?	1
Could you make an arbitrarily small firearm? Would the forces scale usefully or would the square-cube ratio be a problem?	1
Treating gastric ulcers with antibiotics to kill H. Pylori was only developed relatively recently - yet people were already taking them for other conditions. Had nobody correlated spontaneous remission of ulcer symptoms with antibiotics?	1
Would cutting huge canals right through Australia result in more rainfall in inland regions?	0
If time is just another dimension, could 'spooky action at a distance' happen at either end of a temporal rather than spatial separation?	0
What pigments are responsible for brightly-colored bird feathers?	0
What plausible potential development in your field could be too dangerous to make public?	0
Flashing lights can lead to seizures in photosensitive epileptics; could other stimuli lead to runaway effects in neurotypical people?	0
If you had a tiny compass hooked up to some tiny head-mounted electromagnets, could you send a carrier pigeon to the destination of your choice?	0