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There are thousands of seemingly isolated bodies of water all throughout the planet which happen to have fish in them. How did they get there if truly isolated?

There are thousands of seemingly isolated bodies of water all throughout the planet which happen to have fish in them. How did they get there if truly isolated?


There are thousands of seemingly isolated bodies of water all throughout the planet which happen to have fish in them. How did they get there if truly isolated?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 10:27 AM PDT

How are black/white photos colorized?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 07:38 AM PDT

I think the post is pretty clear... How to people colorize black and white photos with such accuracy and stuff?

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Was there an evolutionary advantage to different hair colors in humans?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 06:11 PM PDT

Basically what the title says, and I know how different hair colors are a result of different proteins and melanin, but how do the did the different range of colors help humans in earlier time periods adapt to their environments and have higher survival rates?

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Does writer's block have a neurological foundation?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 06:43 AM PDT

I'm just wondering if anyone has brain-scanned someone suffering from writer's block. Can you see a downturn in the various language areas of the brain? Is it a measurable phenomenon or is it one of those "too-subjective-to-be-measured" things?

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Can you train your memory to be better? If so, is there any limit to how far you can take it?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 05:28 PM PDT

If someone trained their whole life would they have near-photographic memory?

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How powerful is the laser in a typical fiber optic cable?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 07:11 PM PDT

Just want to know in Watts the approximate power of a laser in a fiber optic cable that would be used for something like internet providing or similar fiction. If possible the input strength and output strength, say over 10 meters.

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Why are we so much more likely to stumble in a stalled escalator than in regular stairs?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 09:13 PM PDT

Do bird's nests get reused?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 05:22 PM PDT

I watched some birds grow from eggs tohatchlings and, now that they are gone, I am hoping they will come back next year. Do birds ever reuse their nests?

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Why is it that so many seemingly unrelated languages have raised tone at the end of a sentence denote an interrogative?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 03:10 PM PDT

If languages evolved separately, why do they all contain this particular quirk? In almost every single language I've come into contact with, raising your tone at the end of a sentence means that you're asking a question.

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What's the significance of oxidation number in a covalent bond? Are the electrons shared, or aren't they? (rephrased my awkward question from yesterday)

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 03:09 PM PDT

I am trying to understand the REASON for the following:

Valence count - assume all electrons are shared equally Formal charge - assign one half of bonding electrons to each atom Oxidation number - assign all bonding electrons to the most electronegative atom None of these is actually true, but each gives a quick approximation that is useful for a particular type of problem. 

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/13827/how-is-the-charge-of-covalently-bonded-atoms-determined

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During beta decay, when a neutrino and a beta ray are created, where does it's mass come from?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 05:09 PM PDT

How is the Moon covered mostly fine dust if the erosion forces of wind, water, and plate tectonics do not exist?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 07:01 AM PDT

If I remember right there was a point where the moon had mildly active plate tectonics (correct me if I'm wrong), but I still don't understand what other than meteor impacts could cause any erosion on the surface, let alone enough to make a fine dust.

Also on a side note, I know that relative to Earth meteoroids are called meteors when traveling through the atmosphere and meteorites when they've impacted the ground, but how should they be referenced in relation to the moon since it has no atmosphere?

Edit: Despite proofreading my post I still have a typo in my title. Frick.

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ARC - A nuclear fusion reactor from MIT smaller and cheaper than ITER - a year has passed and no one talk about it. Why?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 10:52 AM PDT

Why dont plants suffer from the effects of aging and cancers like mamals do?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 04:39 AM PDT

So bare with me its been a while since my last biology class.

If the semi-conservative replication of DNA causes degredation over time which leads less and less acurate copies of DNA strands is attributed with causing the visable effects of aging, and higher occurances of cancers.

Then how can plants such as redwood trees live for hundreds of years with out simply dying of old age ?

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Nuclear fission and fusion have been explained to me as "opposites." Why do they both produce energy?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 02:11 PM PDT

Using QFT or String Theory, why would an electron be attracted to/more likely to exist around positive charges such as protons?

Posted: 30 Jun 2017 10:29 AM PDT

If we consider particles to be an excited state of a field or string, why would they exhibit an attractive force toward another wave?

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