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How many people die each year because they stupidly used homeopathic remedies?

felixthecat: What brought this to mind was an idiot who is using homeopathic medicine to treat her child's earache. She became quite indignant when I told her that maybe she would someday make the front page for child neglect induced death.

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1 year ago

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Are you a left or right brain thinker?

bobbonew: Growing up in school you may have heard these terms thrown around. Left brain thinkers are logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, and look at things in parts. Right brain thinkers are random, intuitive, holistic synthesizers, subject, and look at things as a whole.

So which one are y... (5 answers)

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1 year ago

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Does this happen to your brain?

god: Would knowing more, thus theoretically creating more bumps and folds in your brain(giving more storage space), make it take longer to process things because of the larger amount of distance your neurons would have to work through(compared to knowing less and having fewer bumps and folds ... (2 answers)

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2 years ago

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Is your brain a computer?

bobbonew: Really is it? Technically I think its just a computer but instead of circuit and hard drives there are neurons and chemicals transferring and storing information. What do you guys think? (3 answers)

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3 years ago

110

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What animals/mammals have the biggest brains?

Kenbo (2 answers)

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3 years ago

100

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What causes the brain to switch from waking to sleeping states? From sleeping to waking?

New Moon: Does this properly explain the fuzziness and/or confusion one feels upon waking from a sleeping/dreaming state? Most importantly... why? (2 answers)

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3 years ago

390

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What would happen if we didn't have pain receptors in our brain?

Kenbo (5 answers)

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3 years ago

192

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Can cell phones really cause any harm, cancer or brain tumors?

Bonzo: scary rumor. (5 answers)

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3 years ago

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