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Does any living organism resemble Dune's Sandworms in that heterotrophic adults subsist on autotrophic juveniles?	1
I've read that wild wolves do not live in dominance hierarchies - that 'alpha' wolves are in fact patriarchs and wolf packs are families. Does this apply to other animals thought (or formerly thought) to live in dominance hierarchies e.g. chimps or baboons?	1
Does the relationship between time and relative velocity between two objects exist in the opposite direction? That is, is if you could directly slow time around something, would it accelerate in some direction relative to you?	1
Pigs will eat human poop. Historically, outhouses in certain regions were built above pigsties. But how much nutrition do pigs get from poop? How many calories do people leave behind?	1
If objects move through spacetime at a constant magnitude with differing components of space/time, normally we decrease the time component by increasing the space component, but can you do the opposite? That is, is there any conceivably mechanism to accelerate things through space by slowing time?	1
Given bone marrow's importance in the production of blood cells, do multiple limb amputees have lower levels of red, platelets or white blood cells?	1
Horses and camels went extinct in North America but not in Eurasia - why? If climate change was the reason, why didn't this drive Eurasian camels and horses to exinction, and if overhunting was the reason, why did Eurasian humans not overhunt horses and camels?	1
Are any theoretical exotic forms of matter stable at room temperature and pressure and in the presence of normal matter? That is, for example, can I wield a sword of a particular sort of quark matter or such?	1
Metals and minerals are clearly distributed unevenly across the Earth's crust in terms of what's on the surface, but, say, if we dug deep enough in a given spot would we find e.g. rare earth elements? Or is the Earth's crust more uniform when mineral depth is discounted?	1
What's the current consensus on memes?	0

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