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2020-10-25Help me find again this long lost Socratic Solid toy / puzzle
2020-09-18Best speeches/ monologues/ rants of all time!
2020-07-03Pithy message can I share with 4th of July parade participants?
2020-01-17Music for adults that sounds like it was made for kids?
2019-12-10Maybe Math IS Useful?
2019-07-24Help me come home to a spa, scent-wise
2019-05-31Morbotron Fail
2019-04-30Concepts that are blue
2019-02-15Drinking the Kool-Aid
2019-02-02Do rockets have the most fire?
2019-01-23interesting bible/talmud/quran/etc passages to memorize?
2019-01-09Comedy Movies with High Body Counts
2018-07-28Irritatingly picky pub quiz questions
2018-05-23Irritatingly picky pub quiz questions
2018-05-21Best home 'improvements' for renters
2018-05-09A 48-hour trip to Indianapolis
2018-02-19Idioms using numbers that do not actually have numerical meanings
2017-12-09Mixing potassium citrate and La Croix?
2017-12-09Mixing potassium citrate and La Croix?
2017-11-27Ironbutt Star Trek: TOS
2017-09-20Best breweries in the US that employ women?
2017-09-12What is the most creative way you can think of to drain a pool?
2017-09-06Henhouse, Meet Fox
2017-08-09Store-agnostic book linking
2017-07-25It's like Ludacris is speaking directly to my soul.
2017-07-12The Night Begins to Shine
2017-05-23"When did this ""art action"" happen?"
2017-05-19Excel Help - How to Concatenate without all the extra decimals??
2017-04-12Excel Help - &if statements not formatting as accounting or currency?
2017-04-04I need Ambiguous Names (and more!)
2017-02-14When will the Sun shine on Sunshine?
2017-02-06What's your go-to SHORT inspirational/motivational phrase?
2017-01-26visual representation of subsets that comprise the entire set
2017-01-12Excel fractions filter: add cells, display as fraction, add fractions
2017-01-12Excel fractions filter: add cells, display as fraction, add fractions
2016-12-06Can you please recommend some new podcasts for me?
2016-10-14Finding near-misses between lines in 3D
2016-09-20Best podcasts with full transcripts
2016-08-02"Examples of ""regional"" common knowledge"
2016-06-29Baby daddy or baby granddaddy?
2016-06-28Babushka lady behaviour
2016-06-21SCOTUS Men v. SCOTUS Women
2016-06-20What are some good workplace-friendly collections of 8 things?
2016-06-06Help me compile a list of locations from fantasy/sci fi series?
2016-04-21Where do the files I download from Google Drive go?
2016-04-08Wedding vendors with non-disparagement clauses
2016-01-29Books to understand conservatives
2015-11-06Low key rituals for minor holidays?
2015-08-27"Why does Wikipedia say Howard Stern is ""LGBT""?"
2015-07-14The closet is poisonous
2015-05-22Walking in downtown Indianapolis
2015-04-13What are fun, complicated dessert recipes I can make in my home?
2015-03-10March Madness bracket conundrum
2014-12-03Reducing caffeine in tea
2014-11-15What pop music have I been missing?
2014-11-04Balanced team schedules based on seeding
2014-11-04Balanced team schedules based on seeding
2014-07-224x+y+2z=100, x>y, y>z, x+y+z=j, 3x+z=k, j>k, j+k=100.
2014-07-12single-hood wasted on the single?
2014-07-04Is there a browser extension to block layer pop-ups?
2014-06-26I'm PRETTY sure I'm gay. Help me be okay with it.
2014-05-20Mg(OH)2 + CaCl2 = ???
2014-05-13Songs about the unbearable process of making music?
2014-04-17Say Yes! to Michigan! (and Wisconsin, and maybe a bit of Indiana too)
2014-02-13About Benford's Law
2014-02-07apology vs. regret
2014-02-04Self-referencing songs
2014-01-08Right now I have a gallon of lime-flavored milk
2013-12-19What does getting married have to do with Christmas cards?
2013-12-04Recommendations for New Orleans?
2013-11-13What is the best drinking water option?
2013-11-03Probability and a rather unique deck of cards.
2013-10-20Where should I put the prime meridian?
2013-10-14Does Robert's Rules have anything to say as to who run's our meeting?
2013-10-13How best to respond to anti-science, nonsense-loving folk.
2013-08-10Looking for hi-quality nuclear test picture
2013-07-18History's most intriguing lost items
2013-07-01The Illinois Death Poem: Myth or Fiction?
2013-06-15To Me, On my Graduation Day
2013-05-17Fictional duos with compelling, platonic relationships
2013-04-17Moral one-upmanship on Facebook: the story behind the story?
2013-03-12What's the best Swiss Army Knife?
2013-02-25What are example of no confidence votes by college students?
2013-02-18What is the pattern used to make all the Triominoes fit into one unit?
2013-02-18What is the pattern used to make all the Triominoes fit into one unit?
2013-02-15Is this configuration of street names unique?
2013-02-13Recommended online reading about the lifespan of single cells?
2013-01-11Holidaying alone - how do you do it awesomely?
2012-07-05Help Feed My Reading Elephant's Kindle
2012-05-18My name, please make a note of it.
2011-12-12Findings on Trolling?
2011-11-03Help me be an educated voter.
2011-10-02And Cain rose up...
2011-09-10Fun non-fiction?
2011-08-30Next step: solve in three dimensions
2011-08-30Next step: solve in three dimensions
2011-08-30Next step: solve in three dimensions
2011-08-30Next step: solve in three dimensions
2011-08-30Next step: solve in three dimensions
2011-07-13What does a bivariate cubic polynomial look like?
2011-06-02It's just a game.... right?
2011-05-25"Who coined the term ""Red, white and blue""?"
2011-04-26GPS....
2011-03-30Uplifting tunes for the resolutely optimistic
2011-03-24When Is Ignorance Strength?
2011-03-23What are the odds?
2011-03-02Solving the imaginary puzzle and winning millions
2011-02-15Future famous crossing paths
2011-01-10What are some real-life mysteries?
2010-12-22explain this comic to me
2010-12-10I can see half your aura.
2010-11-30Can you help point me to some interesting Harry Potter related reading?
2010-11-12Fictional universes colliding! Dogs and cats living together!
2010-11-05Facebook friending my company?
2010-11-02Bring out your wailing, moaning losers
2010-10-29Appliance Clock Anomaly
2010-10-13Most People Think Most People Are...
2010-10-07What are some interesting wikis on the web?
2010-09-21Create a head-to-head schedule for 7 teams over 10 weeks?
2010-09-16Shortest Atlantic to Pacific continental US distance?
2010-08-12The image was Creative Commons, now licensed through Getty, wah?
2010-07-27Fallacy of Semantic Assumption
2010-07-23Actually, my daughter is quite energetic and physically active. Thanks.
2010-07-22No No Reservations
2010-07-14A variation on the birthday paradox
2010-07-14A variation on the birthday paradox
2010-07-07Parallel Turn Strategy???
2010-06-30What does the Ninth Amendment mean?
2010-06-28Help me deal with the feeling that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise
2010-05-19BASCBLES
2010-05-14Well, that's funny.
2010-05-10widdershins' cocktail test kitchen
2010-05-10"Is DVDrare.com selling bootlegs or ""test releases""?"
2010-04-23"Help me ""get"" Mad Town."
2010-04-20ount all the ways that 15 objects can be put into four piles so that each pile has a different number of objects in it.
2010-04-13"I want to hear a cricket sing ""You are the only animal who can think!"""
2010-04-12Publishing fiction anonymously online
2010-04-09Canadian calculus
2010-04-09Canadian calculus
2010-03-29Is the Osage River the largest tributary of the Missouri River?
2010-03-11Help me a fill a hole in my belief system
2010-03-11Help me a fill a hole in my belief system
2010-03-03Patent for education
2010-03-03And she's buying a stairway.... to a lawsuit?
2010-02-20Weekend On The Couch
2010-02-16Looking for worldwide country information.
2010-02-12What is the last geographical feature in the world to be named?
2010-02-11How to spell 101
2010-02-10Lost translations
2010-02-05Desert the dissertation or have investigator for dessert?
2010-02-04Medical testing without consent
2010-02-04Medical testing without consent
2010-02-02no, that makes it go the other way
2010-02-02Books and film depicting the quarter-life crisis ?
2010-01-29Indy food and drinks!
2010-01-28Isolating highlights
2010-01-27Help me Understand my Grandfather's Military Funeral
2010-01-27Help me Understand my Grandfather's Military Funeral
2010-01-22Probability Friday Fun
2010-01-16Help with a Martin Gardner maths riddle, please!
2010-01-09Do-not-call legalities?
2010-01-02Is extreme but consensual sadism immoral?
2009-12-24What were the liberals wrong about?
2009-12-03WTF
2009-12-01Integer Base Calculation in Reverse
2009-11-30What are the most essential travel phrases?
2009-11-29Am I doomed to be a Football n00b forever?
2009-11-12Am I too logical?
2009-11-10"I allegedly don't understand the word ""allegedly."" Allegedly. "
2009-10-28Women who runs with the Wolf Lecture
2009-10-28Snickerdoodle Emergency!
2009-10-21Where could one be a modern hermit?
2009-10-19"Butcher knife"" or ""Butcher's knife?"
2009-08-20Is including a movie poster image in a blog legal?
2009-08-10Hot or not?
2009-08-05Scoring special tickets at TIFF
2009-07-14Why is this yield factor equation the way it is?
2009-06-10I want to see more bad people
2009-06-09The answers always fade too soon.
2009-06-03Daffodil-11 day? *-day?
2009-06-03Pardon me, but do you speak chemistry?
2009-04-30God is all around you, when you live inside his belly.
2009-04-21Why are chicken wings so differently sized?
2009-04-20Why are chicken wings so differently sized?
2009-03-16There are simply no words... seriously, we haven't come up with those yet.
2009-03-04the independence of dimensions
2009-03-04Wanted: decent, non-traditional Shakespeare adaptations
2009-03-03Will house prices track stock prices (in NE USA)
2009-03-03How to find the number of pages in back issues of magazines.
2009-03-02the independence of dimensions
2009-02-16Why are the republicans against the stimulus?
2009-02-04Brilliant but cancelled?
2009-02-04What gives with the Obama Cabinet problems?
2009-01-31Narrative schizophrenia
2009-01-27I Loves Me Some Culture Clash
2009-01-27Can I eat palak panner if left out for hours?
2009-01-27Should I eat it and if so, how?
2009-01-20Like drinking the best parts of a bonfire...
2009-01-14Best fish with the most omegas and least Hg
2008-12-04You ever have one of those days?