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Where is Artificial Life these days? Are we anywhere close to elementary chemical / protein folding simulations that can simulate an evolving system that could reveal a plausible mechanism for the evolution of biological self-replication?	1
Does the common name of any species refer to Darwin?	1
Has a Nobel Prize ever been awarded for work that was later proved to have serious flaws?	1
If heat radiated by an incandescent light bulb is considered useful (it's cold outside), how inefficient is it overall, compared to an LED bulb of the same lumens?	1
Have there been any studies that attempt to correlate the hormonal responses of subjects to politically charged stimuli with the politics of the subjects?	1
Does the midbrain tend to process inputs into relatively binary outputs (attraction/avoidance, agree/disagree) compared to more nuanced cerebral processing, based on imaging studies?	1
Is it possible to create a synthetic aperture optical telescope capable of resolving surface details on planets of nearby stars? How large would the synthetic aperture have to be?	1
If a person were flash frozen at the moment of death, sealed in an airtight, rigid canister, and buried deep under the South Pole (at a constant -50 degrees C), how long would he (it?) likely have before the DNA degrades beyond the point of being clone-able?	1
What is the oldest man-made structure, dated by historic references (not radiometrics), known to include stone with embedded, petrified, macroscopic fossils (not just impressions)?	1
When animals "play dead" is the time interval of immobility approximately the same for the various species that exhibit this behavior?	1

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