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Why are Primates incapable of Human speech, while lesser animals such as Parrots can emulate Human speech?

Why are Primates incapable of Human speech, while lesser animals such as Parrots can emulate Human speech?


Why are Primates incapable of Human speech, while lesser animals such as Parrots can emulate Human speech?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 02:00 PM PST

How do sugar substitutes like sucralose affect blood insulin levels?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 12:39 PM PST

Do artificial sugar substitutes affect blood insulin levels? How does this compare to real table sugar?

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Has science now come to the certainty of 100% that an asteroid or meteor colliding with Earth was the cause of the dinosaur extinction?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 12:40 PM PST

How do wild creatures get through unusually cold weather?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 10:51 AM PST

The Northeast US is having an unusually long, deep cold snap.

Humans and domestic pets are holing up inside, farmers are keeping cows in the barn -- but what about the wild birds? The deer and the chipmunks?

Which species are unphased by this, going about their usual business?

Which ones are taking special measures? Which are being stressed or threatened?

Where do they all go until it warms up again??

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How does a water spout form?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 05:29 AM PST

Like when a spiral of water or water vapour comes up from the ocean.

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Do boats play a part in ocean levels?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:38 AM PST

I am watching impossible engineering on the science channel in which they are explaining how and why the "Pioneering Spirit" the worlds biggest ship was built. Often they refer to the displacement. Her displacement is extraordinary. How much does ship displacement, sunken ships, sunken aircraft, trash, other non water objects play into the measurable ocean levels in recorded history? According to NOAA oceans are rising at 1/8th of an inch per year. If it has risen 1/8th per year for the last 100 years (for easy math) that would be 12.5 inches of rise. How much of that would be from foreign objecrs in the oceans? Sure the oceans are huge, but surface water down to say 50 feet is all that is in play here.. thats a small fraction. Sort of like compound interest.

TL;DR : Could foreign objects in the ocean play part in what we measure as ocean level rise?

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If a block snow is compacted with enough force, will it become a block of ice?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 10:31 AM PST

Why are morphogens not capable of growing back lost parts of our bodies, without the risk of developing cancer?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:43 AM PST

My question is why did our bodies develop in this way? Why didn't our body find a way to use morphogens to it's advantage in order to restructure or repair/grow back completely missing limbs?

Why wouldn't morphogens be able to start or stop working only when needed, in order to not work continually - leading to cancer?

So I guess my question would also be why did our body develop this way. Or rather, why did it NOT develop a way to grow back missing limbs instead of just being able to repair wounds or broken bones?

PS: If anything I said in here is wrong, please do correct me as I'm not too knowledgeable on the subject.

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In the double slit experiment how did they detect light acting like waves, if observing it makes it act as a particle?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 08:07 AM PST

Could physical space have fractional dimensions?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:27 AM PST

If objects can exist in 1 dimension, 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, and so on, could there also be, say, 3.5 dimensional objects?

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Why were the avian dinosaurs the only dinosaurian survivors of the K-Pg extinction event?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 07:38 PM PST

Could the Oberth effect be explained like a flywheel?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 05:11 AM PST

In the sense that it's going slower when the weighted part of the wheel goes up, thus it doesn't gain a lot of speed. But when it goes down it gains more speed?

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What qualities make Mauna Loa Hawaii a good location for measuring the global average CO2 levels?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 07:17 PM PST

What makes the location so good for that? One problem is that it is surrounded by human habitation.

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Do Wind turbines reduce the speed of the wind, and if so, by how much?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 07:39 PM PST

How did they figure out antidotes to poisons?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:21 AM PST

Did they just drink different poisons and try various things and hope they didn't die?

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Why do some fires get worse when you pour water on them?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 07:40 PM PST

What happens to the other gases such as nitrogen in the air that we breath in?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:36 PM PST

Are rodents and insects as susceptible to the downsides of inbreeding as humans/mammals are?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 02:41 PM PST

Rodents and insects(particularly roaches) breed very quickly. In places where these animals aren't the native species, wouldn't they all at some point be inbreeding? You hear stories of only a handful of rats landing on an island because of explorers and having that rat population boom. Wouldn't those rats be inbreeding very heavily at some point, and be susceptible to all the downsides of inbreeding?

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What is the symmetry group of two identical particles and why is it not the permutation group (Sn)?

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:59 PM PST

I know that for three or more identical particles the symmetry group is the permutation group, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case for only two particles. Why is that so?

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Last year back in November this void was found in Khufu’s Great Pyramid of Giza. Does anyone have any follow up information about this, like what was inside? I can’t find anymore information on that void that was found, and it seemed like a huge discovery.

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 09:26 AM PST

How does egg white clarification work?

Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:14 AM PST

Using broth as an example. You whisk egg whites into the cooled and cloudy broth, then simmer it until a crust forms. When you take off the crust, the broth is clear.
What is the process behind this?

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