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Are sunscreens necessary?
There are many warnings of skin cancer due to exposure to sun, which have turned sunscreen lotions/creams/sprays into a big industry.
Apart from the problem in the product, my question is, are sunscreens needed? Today's average Joe is less exposed…
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Do video gamers tend to be conservative and have a large voter turnout?
I found this pdf referencing a study done on video gamers. Among other claims it states that "80% of those surveyed will vote in the 2016 election". It also has a pie chart claiming the following distribution of gamers by political party:
48%…
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Did Republicans select a nazi, neo-Confederate, pedophile, and pimp as general election candidates?
Post from Facebook Teabonics
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In the past year, Republicans have selected a Nazi, a neo-Confederate, a pedophile, and a pimp as general election candidates. [Pictures of presumed GOP candidates and of Ocasio-Cortez] But please keep telling us…
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Do software patents stifle creativity?
Is there any evidence to support the claim that software patents stifle creativity and put many people at risk of legal action?
If necessary refer to some background reading:
Seriously think about it. Every time
you write code -- even a brand…
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Have any Ivanka Trump branded products been made in America?
In this video by The Young Turks, Cenk claims that Ivanka
That Ivanka does not make one product in America. Not one. She's never made a single product that she's sold in the United States of America.
Is this claim true?
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Was Robert Capa’s famous 1936 war photo “The Falling Soldier” a faked photo?
The photo in question (Death of a Loyalist Militiaman, Córdoba front, Spain (1936)) can be found here at The International Center of Photography and is also attached below.
The question is: The core power of this photo is Robert Capa managed to…
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Did people in ancient times, who survived childhood and were not killed in wars, have roughly the same chance to reach old age as contemporary people?
During an academic course on the history of biology there was a lecture dedicated to ancient Greek philosophers. I noticed that surprisingly many of these philosophers reached age considered advanced even nowadays: 80 years, 90 years and more. I…
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Does this video portray Muslims being tortured?
Video shared from this source has the following caption.
هؤلاء مسلمو بورما يعذبون فقط لأنهم مسلمون ... من منكم يشعر بوجعهم ما عليه إلاّ محاولة نشر الفيديو على صفحات عالمية ربما تساعدهم ... و أدعوا لهم برطاجي جيم لصفحة Video Live
These Muslims of…
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Was Facebook cited as a reason for a third of UK divorces in 2010 in which unreasonable behaviour was a factor?
According to the Daily Mail:
Facebook is becoming a major factor in marriage breakdowns and is
increasingly being used as a source of evidence in divorce cases,
according to lawyers.
The social networking site was cited as a reason for a third…
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Do car alarms provide a significant reduction in automobile theft?
Noise
That movie got me thinking, because it makes a number of claims about car alarms that jive with my personal feelings about them. They're noisy, obnoxious, tend to go off at night, and are almost universally ignored by passersby, people in…
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Did Trump's inauguration draw the largest ever audience to a US inauguration?
Referring to Donald Trump's inauguration, the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed
This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe. (Sources: video footage, BBC News)
Spicer…
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Do American foods contain unsafe levels of glyphosate?
I came across the article Monsanto Is Scrambling To Bury This Breaking Story – Don’t Let This Go Unshared! claiming there was an unsafe level of glyphosate in a number of foods.
The key claim seems to be that 0.1 pbb is unsafe and larger amounts…
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Does Barack Obama have an active quora profile?
A while ago, a friend of mine said that President Obama has just answered a question about the Iran deal on quora.com. I thought then it is just a fake profile claiming to be Obama and giving answers to some questions on Quora. But my friend…
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Does radiation from sleeping next to your smartphone affect your brain patterns negatively?
Vivian Giang writes in Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain:
In fact, as part of Swart’s Neuroscience For Leadership class at MIT in April, she discussed the serious health consequences that come from neglecting shut-eye. Swart,…
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Does this map show every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003?
My friend shared this with me, from The AsiaN:
A map of every car bomb explosions[sic] in Baghdad since 2003
Is this for real? Is there any evidence for this?
Some other references:
BBC: Baghdad: Mapping the violence
Maps on the Web
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