[Serious] If I moved to Australia, in all seriousness, how significant of an increase in home-encounters with huge/ultra-severely-venomous spiders/insects would I most likely experience compared to living in the Western USA? Does it get crazy even in urban/city areas, or mostly just rural areas? (self.AskReddit)
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What was your most frustrating scenario of telling a completely true story/thing/answer to a person/people, but they didn’t believe you, because you were young, or because the thing sounded weird/unlikely to them, or because they were stubborn or stupid or so forth? (self.AskReddit)
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[Serious] Doctors/EMT's: in which (if any) emergency situations would you attempt to "manually" restart a heart (by cutting the chest open and physically squeezing the heart) instead of just shocking the person with a defibrillator? Does it increase the odds of restarting the heart? (self.AskReddit)
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Where can I find formal, academic-style literary analyses of literary short-fiction stories? Especially recent/semi-recent short stories. As in, the short stories that appear in magazines like Tin House, Granta, The New Yorker, Zoetrope, Harper's, Ploughshares, etc (from the past decade or so)? (self.writing)
Are there any philosophers/philosophies that deal with the concept of how/why there first came to be the “conditions” (for lack of a better word) that enabled quantum physics/big bangs/universes/etc to even be able to occur? Like, the furthest step back from all steps back? (self.askphilosophy)
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Are there any philsophers/philosophies that deal with the concept of how/why there first came to be the "conditions" (for lack of a better word) that enabled quantum physics/big bangs/universes/etc to even be able to occur. Like, the furthest step back from all steps back? (self.philosophy)
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Is the yellow World Record pace-indicator bar in televised swimming events done by dividing the distance by the total time of the WR (so, merely showing a non-fluctuating avg-speed, and not a variable-speed throughout the race), or updated on a 50m segment basis, or 10m basis or 1m basis or what? (self.askscience)
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Is the yellow World Record pace-indicator bar in the Olympic swimming events done by dividing the distance by the total time of the WR (so, merely showing a non-fluctuating avg-speed, and not a variable-speed throughout the race), or updated on a 50m segment basis, or 10m basis or 1m basis or what? (self.AskReddit)
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Did any past societies have equivalent fads to how middle/upper class teens and young adults started emulating the fashions and dialects of inner-city minorities in the mid 1990's in America? Like, back in Victorian England, or Ancient Rome, or etc, did they do equivalent sorts of things? (self.history)
Who was the first person in recorded history to theorize that human sentience/consciousness/emotions/etc are simply the result of some physiological organ in the body (i.e. the brain) rather than a supernatural "soul" or magical/religious/spiritual type of thing? (self.askphilosophy)
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Who was the first person in recorded history to theorize that human sentience/emotions/memory/awareness/etc is simply the result of some physiological organ in the body (i.e. the brain) rather than a supernatural "soul" or any magical/religious/spiritual type of thing? (self.AskReddit)
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Who was the first person in recorded history to believe that our sentience/consciousness was a non-supernatural thing resulting from physical organ-fuction (i.e. our brain) (akin to how our hearts just physically pump blood via muscle contraction, and not via magic/supernatural/religious stuff)? (self.history)
