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Can you help with a question regarding wind direction? This is nothing important, just want to be able to answer a pedant. This came up the other day in conversation with a workmate who sails as a...
I once read in the daily mirror a good few years ago, (it was in the old codgers section) about a train that entered a tunnel at edge hill just outside liverpool but never came out the other side, a...
If you take a strip of paper or pliable material and twist it once, then join the ends thus producing a shape that appears to have only one continuous plane and one continuous edge, what is its name....
A4. Jenny had to solve x? - 4x = 0 She wrote: x? - 4x = 0 ? x? = 4x ? x = 4 why was her answer not accepted ????
I read recently that astronomers have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found . The cluster of stars are so far away that it is being seen as it was...
With the EU comprised of 27 members speaking in 20 different languages how many interpreters are needed so that each country can understand and reply to all the legislation in the EU parliament at...
Hi there, does anyone know what is the bright star south of the moon that appears every night? many thanks
Currently fishermen have to use nets that allow the smaller fish to escape. According to this article to increase stocks we should kill the smaller fish. Does it make sense and would it work?...
Does any1 have any ideas for adv. higher bio investigations?? im totally clueless, i want to do something that will be interesting to carry out, like sleep deprivation or something:) but i have no...
What is the solid hydrocarbon obtained from the distillation of cold tar
Sorry if this question has been asked before, but is there any evidence to suggest that parallel universes exist? If so what evidence have we to go on, and how many of them are there? Would it be...
I was just wandering how do bodys decompose deep in the desert, As im thinking it must mainly be to the drying out from the sun,some desert beetles and the winds, Am i right as i dont see how flys...
who invented the decression chanber for divers with the bends?
Are the forces of gravity and electricity and magnetism subject to relativity? Mass and time are affected, how about gravity and e/m?
I watched one of those Maths series recently, originally on the BBC it was in three parts covering all sorts of stuff. One bit I found most interesting was the theory that you can have different size...
Im getting on and its been a few years since i left school. but can someone tell me how to simplify this 4p x 2q would be very grateful. ta
when a shell is fired from a to b, at the hight of its trajectory does it stop before it decends?
Is occasionally applying acne creams likely to make the skin dependent on such treatments, or is it all right?
The other evening, following a rainstorm, the clouds moved away leaving a clear sky with the low sun shining brightly. The result was a spectacular, double rainbow. If similar conditions existed at...