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  2. ghosts - Does the Charlie Charlie Challenge demon exist? -...

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27840

    If Mexican folklore featured it at all, it was a well-hidden secret; the BBC quoted a regional correspondent about the dubious ancient origins of the game (noting that "Charlie" is not a Mexican name, nor does any known folkloric entity of that culture resemble the one summoned):

  3. Does AI use lots of water? - Skeptics Stack Exchange

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/57326/does-ai-use-lots-of-water

    Thermal power plants, however (nuclear, coal, gas, biomass, MSW) are basically just giant boilers - they make power by converting water to steam then forcing it through a turbine. That process does materially impact the availability of that water supply, and so are likely the primary source of water consumption resulting from AI.

  4. Does standing closer to the urinal prevent urine splashes?

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9555

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  5. Does science define life as "beginning at conception"?

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/44049

    Until the completion of implantation the pre-embryo is capable of dividing into multiple entities, but does not contain enough genetic information to develop into an embryo: it lacks genetic material from maternal mitochondria and of maternal and parental genetic messages in the form of messenger RNA or proteins.

  6. Does removing headguards in boxing reduce concussion?

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37868/does-removing-headguards-in-boxing...

    Yesterday in Lausanne, Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee executive board declared that the IOC would not stand in the way of a 2013 AIBA decision to remove headgear from amateur boxing and therefore boxers at this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will not be wearing headgear.

  7. Does "photographic memory" exist? - Skeptics Stack Exchange

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1920

    For some of them, maybe they can remember at image in great detail after a glance a few minutes later but not too much later without a conscious effort to retain it for the following reason: they're said to remember it because they have a way to recall it from their memory but in reality, they weren't actually consciously aware of what they ...

  8. Does DNA add credibility to the theory of evolution?

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1669

    Talk Origins also has an extensive discussion on The Molecular Sequence Evidence (i.e. genes, RNA, etc.). It even speaks of falsifiability in the article (a hallmark of real science). Further points to consider regarding evolution. It would have been impossible for a Victorian Era scientist to know about DNA.

  9. Does auto-suggestion work? - Skeptics Stack Exchange

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18562/does-auto-suggestion-work

    @Christian he does mention visualization. Ch.4 on auto-suggestion, pg 109: "consider the possibility of playing a perfectly legitimate 'trick' on your subconcious mind, by making it believe, because you belive it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing,that this money is already awaiting your claim". –

  10. The authors conclude "...that noise does not interfere with short-term memory but that unattended speech does impair performance..." The studies I cite above are related to memory recall tasks which, though involving similar processes to long-term concentration are not perfectly comparable.

  11. Is abiogenesis virtually impossible? - Skeptics Stack Exchange

    skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/55692/is-abiogenesis-virtually-impossible

    at least one RNA encoding a replicase, ~500 nucleotides (low bound)is required. In the above notation, n = 1800, resulting in E <10-1018. In other words, even in this toy model that assumes a deliberately inflated rate of RNA production, the probability that a coupled translation-replication emerges by chance in a single O-region is P < 10-1018.*