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Fields finitely generated as $\mathbb Z$-algebras are finite?

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Physics of heating a swimming pool

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Understanding a Bill Thurston popularization of knot complements

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Can Mathematica solve this sort of functional/differential equation?

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Is Tsirelson's Bound the only constraint on these quantum correlations?

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How is wireless communication possible?

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When Did Moses Receive the Torah

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Higgs Boson: The Big Picture

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Is position fundamentally different from other observables?

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