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A lot of skin products offer a "sensitive skin" alternative. What is the usual difference in ingredients and why is this better for sensitive skin?

A lot of skin products offer a "sensitive skin" alternative. What is the usual difference in ingredients and why is this better for sensitive skin?


A lot of skin products offer a "sensitive skin" alternative. What is the usual difference in ingredients and why is this better for sensitive skin?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 11:02 PM PDT

Is there an actual reason the Sun and the Moon are the same size in the sky?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 06:57 PM PDT

In school, I was taught that it was just a coincidence that the Sun and Moon are the same size in the sky but it seems like such a rare coincidence, there'd have to be a reason, wouldn't there?

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Is a Yellowstone eruption in the next decade imminent?

Posted: 28 Apr 2016 05:33 AM PDT

What is a tl;dr of your PhD?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 10:33 AM PDT

Inspired by a similar thread in /r/math. Feel free to ask follow-ups.

Edit: for those posting, consider becoming a panelist and getting flair by posting to the stickied panelist application thread!

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What is the method and way of computational and visual detection of subatomic particles as seen in the CMS?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 09:08 PM PDT

What happens to photons of light that only penetrate the open ocean so deep? Why don't they hit the seafloor?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 04:40 PM PDT

Is the universe expanding in three dimensions or four?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 02:07 PM PDT

If space has been expanding since the Big Bang, is it expanding in the three spatial dimensions, or is spacetime also expanding in the time dimension?

If it's also expanding in time, how does that actually affect progression of time? Does it slow?

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Does cardiac muscle contain different muscle fiber types, like skeletal muscles do (Type I, II...)?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 09:04 PM PDT

How are pill vitamins made?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 08:11 PM PDT

Getting an operation in a few weeks. I've been told to take some vitamins a few weeks before. I understand we get vitamins through food but, how are they made in pill form? They sure are expensive, maybe make my own if it isn't to hard.

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why does boiling point of noble gases change as you go down the group?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 08:10 PM PDT

How long is a second?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 02:35 PM PDT

IIRC, for measurements like the kilogram we base it off the number of atoms of a specific element. How exactly do we come up with a uniform version of a second, since time is kind of more abstract than mass.

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Given x points on a circle, how many different polygons can be constructed?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 04:29 PM PDT

If a neutralisation reaction is exothermic why does adding heat to the reaction promote product formation (opposite logic to Le Chatelier's Principle)?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 07:10 PM PDT

Increasing the reaction temperature increases the number of collisions and number of molecules traveling at or above the activation energy, which would favour product formation. However, the overall neutralisation reaction is exothermic, so by Le Chatelier's Principle adding heat should have the effect of favouring the reactants. This is so fundamental, pls help.

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What is the fastest algorithm for multiplication of two n-digit numbers?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 03:39 PM PDT

[Chemistry] How does the voletage of a reference electrode affect the overall cell potential?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 04:43 PM PDT

Given the vast distances of space. Do radio signals in space ever suffer from attenuation?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 04:32 PM PDT

A common advice given to runners is to perform a "leg drain". Does the practice have any real basis in physiology?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 08:10 AM PDT

One website (and it is by no means alone in making this claim) suggests: > Do "leg drains" by lying on your back with your legs extended vertically and feet propped against a wall for three to four minutes. This drains the blood out of your legs so fresh, clean blood can be pumped back into them when you stand up.

Something about the idea of "fresh, clean blood" rings false. But is it?

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Are gas giants simply stars that failed to "ignite?" Why would one gas clump turn into a star and another one turn into a gas giant?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 09:55 PM PDT

Are we able to observer and directly quantify any forms of magnetism outside of our galaxy?

Posted: 28 Apr 2016 12:46 AM PDT

Do illnesses like influenza leave small long-term after effects on normally healthy individuals?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 06:18 PM PDT

Influenza strains can be quite serious diseases that can kill but for most healthy individuals it can be survived with a high likelihood. However, many disease have after effects caused by symptoms experienced through the course of the disease. Have there been studies done to examine if relatively minor diseases have caused lasting effects such as increased susceptibility to future illness? Is there damage accumulated in areas the body isn't typically replacing cells?

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There are reports of a tale of an Inuk making a knife out of shit and spit in deeply sub-zero temperatures and using it to butcher a dog, build a sleigh and flee. Is such a knife mechanically possible or is it a tall tale?

Posted: 27 Apr 2016 10:44 AM PDT

link to the apocryphal tale here: https://dontdontoperate.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/wade-davis-zombies-the-inuit-and-the-shit-knife-louis-riel-and-canadian-history/

Previous discussion of this story on TIL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0yxz/til_that_an_elderly_eskimo_in_the_1950s_in_order/

I underline that the tale is from Inuit oral history, so it may have grown in the telling.

Could such a knife hold an edge sufficient to kill, skin and butcher a dog? Could it be mechanically resilient enough to do the job the tale claims it did?

Are the faeces necessary? Would not simply making a similar tool out of ice/snow and spit be just as effective (if true)?

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