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The killdeer bird uses a "broken wing act" to distract predators from its nest. When it does this, does it understand WHY this works? Or is this simply an instinctive behavior?
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Why do some equations (like universal gravity and Gauss's law) require a proportionality constant, while others (like F=ma and V=IR) do not?
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If I chose a random bit of my computer's hard drive and flipped it from a 0 to a 1 (or vice versa), what would happen?
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People knew of metals before atomic theory. So after atomic theory standardized the definition of a metal, did some elements that hadn't been considered metals become metals?
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When factoring a polynomial expression, what does it mean for a root to have multiplicity greater than one? Does it make the expression "more 0" than if it had had only multiplicity one?
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[WP] A device to cryogenically freeze pets has become commonplace, as it is now the norm to freeze your pets every time you leave the house in order to maximize how much time you get to spend with them before they die.
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To calculate variance, we sum up the squares of the differences between each value and the mean. This results the variance's units being the square of the units of the values. So wouldn't it be easier to not square each difference, but instead to take its absolute value?
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