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Why are creases in paper impossible to smooth out?	77
Why are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) bad for inflammatory related diseases like ulcerative colitis? Why don't they help reduce the inflammation? Aren't they anti-inflammatory?	67
The filmmakers behind the DS9 documentary film "What We Left Behind" are sharing an early release screener for backers on Thursday. They've said that the film is "digitally encoded" and "traceable back to you" if stills or video are shared. How is this possible?	13
Why does the plot of x^x have such a "weird" shape around the origin?	11
If I stare at a fixed point and move my head side to side, my eyes remain in a fixed forward position while my head turns. I don't feel myself moving my eyes side to side. Yet if I hold my head still and look left to right I can feel myself moving my eyes. So, what's happening in the first scenario?	7
Why do lightbulbs burn out eventually?	6
The Wikipedia page on Cosmic Rays says, "Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month," What were these studies and how did they test this?	4
How come larger animals tend to live longer than smaller animals, but larger animals tend to live shorter lives than smaller animals in that same species?	1
How come, as humans, our ability to accurately gauge distances tends to fall off dramatically past like ten meters or so?	1
In a modern industrial society, medicine has made it so that people who would have otherwise died young and failed to reproduce (e.g. Stephen Hawking) are now able to pass on their genes to offspring. Are we now using medicine to overcome evolution via natural selection?	1

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