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Is empowerment of women a cure for poverty?
It is stated that giving women equality and control over their reproduction reduces the poverty in any community. Christopher Hitchens:
"We already know the cure to poverty...it's quite simply, the empowerment of women."
While I tend to believe…
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Has "the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger... been linked to insufficient sleep"?
According to Daylight Savings Time and Traffic Accidents N Engl J Med 1996; 334:924-925
Major disasters, including the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, have been linked…
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Did Google censor autosuggest results for Hillary Clinton?
There is currently a video by SourceFed being spread around the internet, claiming that Google appear to have censored autosuggest results in order to boost Hillary Clinton's campaign by excluding results for "crime" or "indictment".
I am extremely…
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Does wearing headphones for long periods increase dangerous bacteria in your ear?
I have heard this many times, sometimes worded as such:
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times
I'm wondering, is this true and, if so, does it pose a threat?
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Were there any Jews among the Nazi top people?
I recently was in a discussion where one of the people, as an argument, claimed that Jews have been known to participate in activities clearly detrimental to Jews as a whole (the argument itself had nothing to do with Jews, it was merely an…
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Was the Earth one big ocean once?
Many people believe that Earth was one big ocean at some point in its past.
During Noah’s time the earth was completely covered with water.
There are many other examples, not all related to Noah. See here, here, here, here and so on.
Is that…
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Have more U.S. senators been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than trans women?
I just saw this in my Facebook feed, and now I'm curious if it's actually true. Do they actually keep records of this? It seems improbable, just because there are so many more trans women than senators, but it would be funny if true.
What trans…
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Did the legalisation of abortion result in lower crime rates?
In the book Freakanomics, the author speculated that due to the legalization of abortion in the US, crime rates fell because the people that would normally go out and commit these crimes, well they were never born in the first place.
Aside from the…
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Is Sweden experiencing a "rape epidemic?"
The US think-tank, the Gatestone Institute - along with many conservative web-sites, has claimed that rapes in Sweden have gone up because of the influx of refugees from the Middle East.
Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided…
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Did Six FBI Agents die before they could testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations?
While reading a different question Was Martin Luther King taped by the FBI while committing adultery?
I came to the Wikipedia page for
William Sullivan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Sullivan
Sullivan was one of six current or former FBI…
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Does chamomile help you to relax?
What is the best evidence available relative to chamomile having relaxing effects?
Some examples claims include:
It is known for its relaxing and soothing properties
It is a mild relaxant and, as such, is often used as an herbal solution to help…
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Do either men or women have higher pain tolerance than the other?
Traditional folklore suggests women have a higher pain tolerance than men. I have seen a few sites suggesting otherwise. Naturally, plenty of anecdotal accounts of wussy men or women get tossed around whenever the subject is brought up which makes…
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Did we receive a signal from outer space in 1977?
This was recently posted on 9gag:
In 1977, we received a signal from outer space, which lasted 72 seconds. We still do not know how or whence it came.
Did we receive such a signal in 1977?
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Will people automatically look at the person they feel closest to when laughing?
In the post: 31 Psychological Life Hacks That You Can Exploit To Give Yourself An Advantage In Social Settings by thoughtcatalog, it said:
When a group of people laugh, people will instinctively look at the person they feel closest to in that…
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Does pair programming improve the correctness of software?
Some advocates of pair programming suggest that two software engineers working on a single feature together - at the same desk, at the same computer - will create software that is more correct - that is, closer to specification and more bug-free -…
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