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What oils should I eat?

Assuming that homosexuality has a strong genetic component, what reasons can you think of for natural selection to conserve this genetic component? What reasons could there be for such genes to be retained and transmitted to new generations?

It is 2250 C.E., and earth is a spacefaring planet. We discover an asteroid with an entrance hole drilled into it by an advanced civilization. The hole leads to a small tube that leads to a perfectly spherical cavity inside the asteroid, a cavity two hundred meters in diameter. The inside of the cavity is coated with a substance that turns the cavity into a spherical mirror. An astronaut enters and floats gently to the center of the cavity, where he stops and turns on his helmet lights, which point straight ahead. What does the astronaut see, and why?

I notice at the site http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/#codes that there is something called MD5. Whether you encode one word or five hundred words, the result is a string of the same length. Is MD5 a true cipher?

While on medical restriction you are confined to your [prison] cell or dormitory bed except to eat, use the toilet, or obtain medication.

I've been taking Crestor, 20mg daily. My total cholesterol is way down (177) from last year (222), however, the HDL is low and the LDL is high. Is my cardiovascular risk any lower than it was before I started Crestor?

No, not a frequency list of letters, but of _phonemes_: the schwa sound, the /sh/ sound, the /ch/ sound, and all the different vowel sounds, etc. There are between 40 and 45 of these in English. Do we have a linguist in the house?

I need the advice of an allergist. How on earth can one develop an allergy to a non-protein, or a non-biochemical? I am allergic to nickel. Took me years to develop this sensitivity. Does the nickel form a protein complex that my body rejects, or what? Are there other metals that can produce allergies?

Has anyone had TN and how did they treat it? I had a wisdom tooth removed after the first episode and I thought it was gone for good, but now the pain has come back and seems to radiate from the tooth _next_ to the place where the wisdom tooth was. The pain is tremendous.

Did those guys quit making predictions? The last prediction was in 2002.

Was that exquisitely beautiful musical theme at the end of the film from the classic oeuvres, or did someone compose it?

Some people say that TIFs are necessary, others say that in modern machines, with OSs like Windows XL, they are unnecessary and may be dangerous. How conscientious should I be in getting rid of these files or keeping them to a minimum?

It's not phonetic.

This pill is round, about 0.8mm in diameter, creamy yellow, convex on both sides, not scored, has a big M on one side and L 25 on the other. (The L is above the 25.)

There are dictionaries, spell-checkers. What happened over the last fifty years? Or has it always been this way?