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Is the archaeology of Doggerland conducted in any organized way? Or are archaeologists simply dependent on whatever artifacts get randomly dredged up from the sea floor?

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If AGW is rendering carbon dating unreliable, how do we know that natural climate change in the distant past didn't also affect carbon dating's reliability?

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How do we know that dark matter is something different, and not just a property of ordinary matter that manifests itself at vast scales?

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We've seen species go extinct before, but have we ever seen a species of multi-cellular creature come into existence?

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Many nesting birds will starve a chick, or allow the other nestlings to kill it, if times are hard or if the chick is weak or sickly. But stork parents will themselves eject such chicks from the nest, with or without killing them first. Is there a known reason why storks are different in this way?

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How sure are we about the shape of our Milky Way galaxy, and how do we know?

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New Horizons is now in the outer solar system and both Voyager probes are in interstellar space, having performed their fly-bys of their assigned planets. Has a probe ever been sent straight "north" or "south" out of the solar system, as opposed to laterally? And if not, why not?

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Why don't all rivers carve deep gorges, like the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon?

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Is the archaeology of Doggerland conducted in any organized way? Or are archaeologists simply dependent on whatever artifacts get randomly dredged up from the sea floor?	1
If AGW is rendering carbon dating unreliable, how do we know that natural climate change in the distant past didn't also affect carbon dating's reliability?	1
How do we know that dark matter is something different, and not just a property of ordinary matter that manifests itself at vast scales?	1
We've seen species go extinct before, but have we ever seen a species of multi-cellular creature come into existence?	1
Many nesting birds will starve a chick, or allow the other nestlings to kill it, if times are hard or if the chick is weak or sickly. But stork parents will themselves eject such chicks from the nest, with or without killing them first. Is there a known reason why storks are different in this way?	1
How sure are we about the shape of our Milky Way galaxy, and how do we know?	1
New Horizons is now in the outer solar system and both Voyager probes are in interstellar space, having performed their fly-bys of their assigned planets. Has a probe ever been sent straight "north" or "south" out of the solar system, as opposed to laterally? And if not, why not?	1
Why don't all rivers carve deep gorges, like the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon?	0