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    Medical Sick (cold) twice in two weeks wtf?

    How or why would this happen? Did I get two different virus strains? Did my body not finish fighting it off properly the first time?
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    Can I Contract Oral Herpes By Sharing a Bottle?

    What about washing clothes together with the clothes of someone infected? (underwear too)
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    Can I Contract Oral Herpes By Sharing a Bottle?

    Can one contract oral herpes by sharing a bottle (or cup) with someone who's infected?
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    A distinctly different bad breath. Help identify?

    Smokers? Drinkers? Combinations?
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    Why the sun/moon looks bigger at the sunset/rise?

    In the middle of the sky your eyes have no reference points for size.
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    Speed of a photon relative to another photon

    Say a beam of light is cast somewhere - are the photons transmitted at a speed equal relative to one another, or would one photon still perceive the one behind it as moving at light speed?
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    Understanding the Layman's Definition of a Unit

    Could someone give me a layman's definition of this unit? I've looked about on wikipedia and Google search results, but I'm still not clear on what this measurement actually is? :confused:
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    Powerline Hum: What Causes It & How to Stop It

    What exactly is the noise?
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    Sodium vapor lamps - how do they work

    I don't quite understand the explanation at wiki; What does this mean (the vaporizes bit)? the sodium turns to gas, which then glows? when it cools does it condense back to a solid when its turned off again?
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    Heavy Vehicle Hissing - Exhaust Brakes Explained

    Recently while traveling on a bus down a fairly steep descent, I became very aware of the regular hissing of, what I'm assuming were, the brakes - it would come at fairly regular intervals, a voluble burst of hiss, I think I might've been more aware of it because of where I was sitting on the...
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    Program to Detect Games Over Network

    Is there a program that can detect games running over a network? Kind of like the "Find LAN games" option you'll find in a network game, only to find any games at all?
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    Question about barbell weight distribution

    Does it make a difference on a barbell how far apart the weights are from the centre? For example, if you've got a long pole with weights right at the end, compared to a shorter pole with the same amount of weight but closer together (putting aside the differences in pole weight), would the long...
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    Science Humor: A Wide Selection

    This is not true (unless that's the joke?).
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    Can Viruses Have Any Positive Effects or Uses?

    They're a fantastic source of income for pharmaceutical companies?
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    Why do ppl suffered from famine always has a beer belly?

    So could the fluid be surgically evacuated?
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