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Butter is a dairy product. Why, then, can butter be unrefrigerated but milk or cream goes rancid so quickly?
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When a person dies in their sleep do we know if that person had even a moment's awareness of what was happening?
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Has distributed computing projects such as folding@home and BOINC's rosetta actually produced real results?
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Are there any properties of life that are considered "givens" when postulating about extraterrestrial life?
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If we kept up the research and development on steam engines would they be more efficient than our combustion engines today?
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During the Jurassic there was 7 times as much atmospheric CO2 as there is now. Does this mean the ocean used to be much more acidic? How did aquatic life survive back then?
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