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What has approximately half the population done?

I'm designing a game for teaching English. Basically the student has a list of things, and they have to claim to have done everything, and then be interrrogated by a second student who has to decide...
14:34 Tue 15th Feb 201111 answers, last by nicolab6 17:11 Fri 18th Feb 2011
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microsoft word question

I want to insert words in red font in a word document. I set the font to red, type the word and it's fine. I then go to another part of the document and type a word, and it's back to black (like the...
17:49 Sat 03rd Dec 20054 answers, last by blinkyblinky 09:35 Sun 04th Dec 2005
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Weird start up behaviour

My original post has disappeared off the bottom of the screen, so I'm posting this again with some extra info in the hope that someone can help. A nearly empty folder opens at startup. Just the...
09:15 Sat 19th Nov 20051 answer, last by rojash 11:15 Sat 19th Nov 2005
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start up

For some reason, every time I switch on my pc (windows 98), a folder opens up (C/Programs) on my desktop. It's just a window, I close it, and carry on... I tried using Mike Lin's STARTUP CONTROL PANEL...
17:26 Wed 16th Nov 20054 answers, last by blinkyblinky 07:42 Sat 19th Nov 2005
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astonomy

when I look up into the night sky, what is the most distant object I can see with the naked eye?
18:38 Mon 14th Nov 20055 answers, last by blinkyblinky 17:30 Wed 16th Nov 2005
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attracting birds to a garden

My parents have a nice garden and they put up nets of peanuts which starlings and sparrows love. How can they attract other kinds of birds like wrens, finches, robins etc. It's nice to support the...
10:08 Sun 13th Nov 200510 answers, last by Torquemada25 13:02 Tue 29th Nov 2005
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Firefox

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4959 Can someone who uses Firefox go to the above page and tell me if some of the text goes over to the right of the page, overlapping some other text on...
20:43 Fri 11th Nov 20056 answers, last by blinkyblinky 15:08 Sat 12th Nov 2005
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Hello

um, that's it
14:00 Wed 09th Nov 20051 answer, last by AliFlump 14:07 Wed 09th Nov 2005
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My finger won't straighten

Anyone else had this? It only happens in the morning. If I make a fist and open my hand, all the fingers open except the one next to the pinky. It satys shut and then eventually springs open when the...
08:47 Tue 08th Nov 20056 answers, last by blinkyblinky 15:35 Sat 12th Nov 2005
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greatest/catchiest bass/guitar riffs

Night Train (James Brown) Money (Pink Floyd) Walking on the Moon (Police) Working in a Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey) Outside Woman Blues (Cream) Fleetwood Mac (Fleetwood Mac) Taxman (Beatles) Any more?
19:15 Mon 07th Nov 200510 answers, last by blinkyblinky 15:13 Sat 12th Nov 2005
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When I'm singing in the toilet at work

and I hit a middle C, the whole room echoes and reverberates deeply. Can anyone explain in layman's terms why this happens?
17:57 Fri 04th Nov 200515 answers, last by mibn2cweus 01:18 Sat 12th Nov 2005
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iso

I have a dictionary on cd, which I have to insert every time I want to use it. I have a program called Virtual Daemon Manager. I know I can use this to fool my computer into thinking that the cd is in...
21:40 Wed 02nd Nov 20053 answers, last by blinkyblinky 18:17 Thu 03rd Nov 2005
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electromagnetic waves

How do they transfer energy through a vacuum?
08:34 Wed 02nd Nov 20059 answers, last by blinkyblinky 17:57 Fri 04th Nov 2005
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Light doesn't age

because time stops passing for something travelling at the speed of light. Presumably over time photons don't lose energy and start slowing down, because photons are light, and the speed of light is...
08:21 Tue 01st Nov 20054 answers, last by matt_london 13:27 Wed 02nd Nov 2005
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Is a surprised sheep a scientist?

This question came up in another thread but only got one answer, which I don't think was complete (apologies to mib). It would be nice to hear other opinions. The idea came from the typical...
06:58 Tue 25th Oct 200531 answers, last by mibn2cweus 23:52 Thu 10th Nov 2005
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Cocaine anyone?

A surge in cocaine use is pushing Britain towards a "healthcare disaster" that will see a dramatic rise in heart attacks, strokes and neurological problems among young people, says a leading...
07:27 Mon 24th Oct 20055 answers, last by Grunty 11:08 Mon 24th Oct 2005
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I think this guy is starving his cat.

The cat is skin and bones, I'm not exaggerating. I fed it in the street and it was ravenous. I talked to the owner and he assured me it was just old, and he feeds it every day and the vet told him...
21:37 Sat 22nd Oct 200516 answers, last by blinkyblinky 08:40 Fri 28th Oct 2005
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speed of light and time

I understand that if you move away from a clock at the speed of light, the clock will appear frozen because the light from the clock face will never be able to overtake you (and hence appear to move...
08:19 Fri 21st Oct 200515 answers, last by incijalu 22:33 Sat 05th Nov 2005

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