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Could the sensors in a particle accelerator be repurposed to work with a telescope?

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If repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) technology was refined to target very specific sections of the brain, could you "trick" the brain into thinking something?

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How are magnetic fields and electrodes similar/different when stimulating the brain?

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If intelligence is arguably the strongest evolutionary trait, why is it not as common or well developed in the animal kingdom?

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Through selective breeding, could we raise an animals intelligence to rival our own?

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Why do scientist not use the same technology from the hadron collider in telescopes to detect photons from other worlds?

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In human terms, at what point would a race become a subspecies?

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Why is the ability to sense infrared thermal radiation not as widespread among the animal kingdom as the other senses? Are the evolutionary benefits not as significant?

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Why do spheroids, when spun with their shortest axis perpendicular the the ground, turn upright like a spinning top?

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If eugenics was approached in a morally acceptable way, what kind of results would you expect and how many generations would you predict them to manifest?

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Could the sensors in a particle accelerator be repurposed to work with a telescope?	1
If repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) technology was refined to target very specific sections of the brain, could you "trick" the brain into thinking something?	1
How are magnetic fields and electrodes similar/different when stimulating the brain?	1
If intelligence is arguably the strongest evolutionary trait, why is it not as common or well developed in the animal kingdom?	1
Through selective breeding, could we raise an animals intelligence to rival our own?	1
Why do scientist not use the same technology from the hadron collider in telescopes to detect photons from other worlds?	1
In human terms, at what point would a race become a subspecies?	1
Why is the ability to sense infrared thermal radiation not as widespread among the animal kingdom as the other senses? Are the evolutionary benefits not as significant?	1
Why do spheroids, when spun with their shortest axis perpendicular the the ground, turn upright like a spinning top?	1
If eugenics was approached in a morally acceptable way, what kind of results would you expect and how many generations would you predict them to manifest?	1