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How great is the overlap of Philosophy and Physics?
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Toyota Commemorative museum in Nagoya
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Social Media content creation glitches
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Colour of engineering drawing board, sit or stand?
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Internal combustion engines founded in GBR and car industry collapse
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Last night Nov 23rd at exactly 4:41pm mountain time, lights in the sky
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To supercharge science, first experiment with how it is funded
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What hand tools do physicists commonly use in the laboratory?
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The Problem With Science Communication (Veritasium)
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Double Sunrise Phenomenon Explanation?
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Another (old) example of fake news
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Introducing integral in textbooks
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Interesting article about the Nobel Prize "Rule of Three"
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Statistics problem: Comparing written work with & w/out use of AI
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"Big Bang" according to the 19th century poet ("Science-v-Poetry")
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Canadian Politics Boring Dispelled
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The British word "boffin" is polarizing the boffins
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Random dehydration and loss of fluid in the body
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Anyone Ever Get Slimy Substance on Sink Drain Filter that Keeps Coming
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Weird tendency of many professors
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Nobel Prize 2023: Attosecond pulses
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Who Is Your Favorite Scientist and Why?
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My modernization of Definition I in Newton's Principia
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Movie about people who died forging a new trail in the north
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