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What evidence is there that the syndromes currently known as high and low functioning autism have a shared etiology? For that matter, how do we know that they individually represent a single etiology?

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What, if any, theories compete with hierarchical predictive coding/predictive processing?

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Are there non-von Neumann computers? If not, why did the architecture need a name? It's not as though there's a dearth of things named after von Neumann.

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Why do we have a vaccine for HHV-3, but not HHV-1 or HHV-2, when they're all in the same subfamily and have the same target cell and latency site?

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1 How do various skin products and certain oral medications increase sun sensitivity? Do they increase all effects of sun or only some?

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Does cloud seeding increase the total amount of precipitation, or just the location of the precipitation? Either way, what are the knock-on effects for the water cycle and surrounding ecosystems?

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How would putting ICE exhaust pipes especially close together make it sound like the RPM was doubled?

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When you eat something more calorie dense (by mass) than yourself, how long does it take to gain weight in excess of the food's weight?

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How do hydrocarbons form?

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When bicycles lean into a turn, are they pivoting above their contact patches, or rotating around their vertical center of mass?

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What evidence is there that the syndromes currently known as high and low functioning autism have a shared etiology? For that matter, how do we know that they individually represent a single etiology?	2055
What, if any, theories compete with hierarchical predictive coding/predictive processing?	19
Are there non-von Neumann computers? If not, why did the architecture need a name? It's not as though there's a dearth of things named after von Neumann.	12
Why do we have a vaccine for HHV-3, but not HHV-1 or HHV-2, when they're all in the same subfamily and have the same target cell and latency site?	12
1 How do various skin products and certain oral medications increase sun sensitivity? Do they increase all effects of sun or only some?	11
Does cloud seeding increase the total amount of precipitation, or just the location of the precipitation? Either way, what are the knock-on effects for the water cycle and surrounding ecosystems?	1
How would putting ICE exhaust pipes especially close together make it sound like the RPM was doubled?	1
When you eat something more calorie dense (by mass) than yourself, how long does it take to gain weight in excess of the food's weight?	1
How do hydrocarbons form?	1
When bicycles lean into a turn, are they pivoting above their contact patches, or rotating around their vertical center of mass?	1