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What is urban mining? (11 May 01:43) |
| Urban mining is the European fancy name for the process of making money out of garbage using sophisticated machinery.
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What is the backwash effect? (11 May 01:43) |
| Gunnar Myrdal in 1956 said that regional differences are the natural outcome of economic development and the inevitable result of market forces.
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What is Grounded Theory? (11 May 01:43) |
| Grounded Theory is described as a research method in which the theory is developed from the data, rather than the other way around.
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How are corrective lenses made? (11 May 01:43) |
| The lab technician selects a lens blank that has the correct segment (called an add) and a base curve close to the prescribed power.
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Can cosmic rays generate electricity? (11 May 01:43) |
| While in theory it may be possible, in practice it could be in very small amounts.
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How do sunglasses filter ultraviolet rays? (11 May 01:43) |
| A special clear coating is applied to the lenses, either on the front or back of the lens, or sometimes both sides.
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Why is the Spring Festival celebrated? (11 May 01:43) |
| The ancient town of Hama in Syria is well known for its Spring Festival celebrated every year for two weeks in April.
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Which is the most pointless gadget? (04 May 04:03) |
| In a recent survey, an electric nail file, which gives a smooth finish to nails, all for a whopping £250, was voted the most pointless gadget of all times.
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What is genetic drift? (04 May 04:03) |
| The random changes in gene frequencies occurring by chance and not under the control of natural selection are called genetic drift or random genetic drift or sampling error.
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Why is the Taj Trapezium Zone and why is it called so? (04 May 04:03) |
| Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) is a defined area of 10,400 sq km around the Taj Mahal to protect the monument from pollution.
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What are galactic superclusters? (04 May 04:03) |
| A group of 40-50 galaxies and clusters containing about thousands of galaxies along with isolated galaxies may form larger clusters known as galactic superclusters.
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What is the Age of Antonines? (04 May 04:03) |
| The Age of Antonines is often referred to two successive ages of Roman emperors - Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius - who ruled between 138 AD and 180 AD and were famous for their skilled l... |
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What is a semaphore? (04 May 04:03) |
| A semaphore (pronounced as sehm uh fawr, invented by Edsger Dijkstra) in computer science is a classic way of protecting shared resources.
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What is the Golden Rule? (04 May 04:03) |
| An almost universal principle of ethics, the Golden Rule, is summarised by the phrase 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'.
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Where did surfing originate? (04 May 04:03) |
| The sport of riding on the crest or along the tunnel of a wave, especially while standing or lying on a surfboard is called surfboarding.
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Turning out eco-MBAs (04 May 04:03) |
| B-schools are teaching students about the triple bottom line-people, planet and profit. Newsweek tells you about this new breed of green grads.
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No God but atheists want a church (04 May 04:03) |
| The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of its "Religious Landscape" survey in February and found that 16 % of Americans have no religious affiliation.
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What does Nerdic refer to? (27 April 05:37) |
| Nerdic is the language used by technology geeks and is also referred to as 'geek speak'.
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Which word has the most number of synonyms? (27 April 05:37) |
| It's difficult to say which word has most number of synonyms.
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What is jipijapa hat? (27 April 05:37) |
| Jipijapa Hat is named after a town in Ecuador, once a centre for hat trade.
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What is the Sortino Ratio? (27 April 05:37) |
| Many global Mutual Fund rating agencies prefer this risk-adjusted return measure over the Sharpe Ratio, because it is simple and easy.
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What is the Great Rift Valley? (27 April 05:37) |
| The Great Rift Valley is the vast geographic depression that runs from the Jordan River Valley in Syria, South-western Asia to Mozambique in eastern Africa.
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What is the Kimberley Process? (27 April 05:37) |
| The Kimberley Process is a negotiating process to establish minimum acceptable international standards in the trade of diamonds from rebel-held conflict areas. |
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What is a Cyrus Cylinder? (27 April 05:37) |
| The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay cylinder on which a declaration issued by the emperor Cyrus II of Persia is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform. |
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How is a stallion different from a gelding? (27 April 05:37) |
| Gelding is a castrated male horse while a stallion is a male horse that isn't castrated.
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What is the OLE Robotic Beetle? (20 April 02:01) |
| These are robots that look like Volkswagen Beetle cars, only they have legs instead of wheels. |
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What is Sonet with reference to an optical network? (20 April 02:01) |
| Sonet (Synchronous Optical Network) is a high-speed, physical layer network designed to carry large volumes of traffic over relatively long distances on fiber optic cabling using lasers. |
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Which is the longest building in the world? (20 April 02:01) |
| Kansai International Airport in Japan which is 1700 metres long is the longest building in the world. |
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What is the Bathtub Theorem? (20 April 02:01) |
| The British economist Kenneth Boulding used to explain many economic phenomena as similar to the accumulation or depletion of water in a bathtub. |
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What is the Blue Gene project? (20 April 02:01) |
| Blue Gene is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of supercomputing, with the ultimate goal of creating a system that can perform 1 quadrillion calculations per second, or 1 petaflop. |
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What's the origin of the word 'karaoke'? (20 April 02:01) |
| The word karaoke is derived from two Japanese words - 'kara' comes from the word 'karappo' meaning empty or void and 'oke' comes from the word 'okesutura' or orchestra. |
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What's a sevillana dress? (20 April 02:01) |
| The sevillana dress is worn by artistes who perform sevillana, a colourful and exciting style of song and dance that originated in Castile, Spain. |
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Why is quartz used in watches? (13 April 07:22) |
| Quartz is used in watches as it acts as a piezoelectric oscillator. |
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How is buffalo mozzarella made? (13 April 07:22) |
| First of all, raw buffalo milk stored in big steel containers is given thermic treatment and then it is poured into a cream separator where curdling is done by induction of natural whey. |
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What is back-door financing (13 April 07:22) |
| Back-door financing, an American concept, is the practice of governmental borrowing from the US treasury over and above legislature-approved budgeted expenses. |
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What is Gradenigo's Syndrome? (13 April 07:22) |
| Gradenigo, an Italian otolaryngologist from the University of Naples, described this syndrome in 1904. |
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What is the origin of the term 'The Whole Nine Yards'? (13 April 07:22) |
| This phrase's origins has several interpretations. |
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What are Fizeau's fringes? (13 April 07:22) |
| Fizeau's fringes occur in interferometry. |
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What does Thor refer to? (13 April 07:22) |
| It's widely known that Thor is the Norse God of Thunder. |
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What is nomophobia? (06 April 01:46) |
| It's the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
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What is the Geographical Indications (GI) Registry? (06 April 01:46) |
| In December 1999, the Parliament passed the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.
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What does RAPD stand for? (06 April 01:46) |
| RAPD stands for Random Amplification of Polymorphic DNA.
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What is a progressive score in chess? (06 April 01:46) |
| In chess tournaments, when two players end up with the same score on the final round, the tie needs to be broken for ranking purposes.
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What is singularity in Physics? (06 April 01:46) |
| In Physics and Mathematics, singularity is defined as a point at which a complex function is undefined because it is neither differentiable nor single-valued while the function is defined in... |
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What is the Alexander Technique? (06 April 01:46) |
| It is a technique developed by F M Alexander, who utilised the self-observation and reasoning methods to enhance the physical performance of human body like sitting, standing, walking and sp... |
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How do you test the presence of methanol? (06 April 01:46) |
| Methanol can be detected by using the iodoform test.
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How did the polar bear evolve? (06 April 01:46) |
| Zoologists believe that the polar bear evolved from a species of brown bears in Siberia, making polar bears the eighth species of bears.
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What is a persuasive mirror? (30 March 03:57) |
| It's a technology that enables people to see how they would look like in the future, based on their habits.
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What is a datum line in geography? (30 March 03:57) |
| A datum (plural datums or data) is a reference point from which measurements are made.
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What is the fifth dimension? (30 March 03:57) |
| In physics, the fifth dimension is a hypothetical extra dimension beyond the usual three spatial and one-time dimensions.
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