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Absolute Zero
Addiction 

Aerosonde
Alpha Centauri- Triple or no?
Alpha Particles and Conserving Charge in Radioactive Decay
Alternative Medicine   
        Apricot Kernels as a Cure for Cancer
        Homeopathy
        Iridology
Alternative Biofuels  ***NEW***
    Oil Biofuels
    Alternative Biofuels - Not Enough Alcohol
    Oil from Coal
Ant/arctic Exploration - original thread "Rocks in Your Head "
Artificial, Natural and Synthetic  
Asbestos 

Asteroidal Vulnerability 
Astronomy for Amateurs -  
 Photographing the Transit of Venus,
 Constellations for Small Kids
Transit of Venus, June 2004  

Atlantic Conveyor
The Australian Synchroton
Ball Lightning
Big Gunnery
Biodiesel   ***NEW***
Blowing Things Up - Experimenting in Relative Safety
"Blood Type" Diet
Blue-Green Algae  
Blue Skin
BMI - Body Mass Index
Bottled Water  - wonderful or waste?  
Breaking the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Building a DNA Computer
Burrowing Snake
Bushfires in Canberra - Mt Stromlo Observatory Burns    and Rebuilding
The Cambrian Explosion
Camels  
Can You Identify This Frog?
Cloning People  
Colour  
Comet MacNaught
Contentious Fruit and Vegetables:
        Broccoli

        Chokos  
        Grapefruit  - should it carry a health warning?
The Coriolis Effect
Dawkins and Religion  
DDT, Mozzies and Malaria  
Death-Dealing Toilet Spiders - an old hoax updated  
Defence Against Lightning
Defending General Practitioners
Dehydration       
Desalination 
Diabetes Treatment
Dietary Supplements - Are You Being Ripped Off?
Digital Science Library
Dinosaurs:
        Supplying blood to the brain
,
        Warmbloodedness  
        Evolutionary Origins of Flight  

Of Drought and Flooding Rain
Earthquakes and Tides  
Eastern Taipan and similar snakes

EDCs in Water

Eggs at What Price?  (thread - Free Henny Penny Now!)
Ehrlich vs Lomborg      includes population crashes and urban wildlife
Electrons 
Energy (also contains Friction)  
Engineers  
Entropy and Chance  
Ethanol in Petrol  
Expansion of the Universe  
Extracting Roots  
Fluoride in Water

Food Additives - Warning
Foot and Mouth Disease - Your Role
Foucault Pendulum 
Fugu - as a painkiller 
Future of Local Stem Cell Research   with Embryonic Stem-cell Research
Genetically Modified Organisms    
       Genetically Modified Canola
       Genetically Modified Foods for Zambia
       Genetically Modified Salmon
       Genetically Modified Rice
       Genetically Modified Crop Forum  
Gerald Cairns
Global Warming    and The Global Warming Swindle (?/!)
Going to the Dogs

Going Nuclear - A Reasonable Alternative To Fossil Fuels?
GPS

The Greatest Scientists of All Time 
Greenhouse Emissions Trading Farce 
High Pressure Food Preservation  
The Hole in the Ozone Layer
Honey Laundering
Horizontal Gene Transfer
Household Oils - Disposing , Nutrition Information, Bacteriological Properties
Hydrogen-Fueled Buses
"Intelligent Design" 

J. Cairnes and Prize-Winning Poster
Kilometre-Tall Solar Power Generator
Lack of Bees 
Lamarck's Evolution
Life on Other Planets - and Velikovsky
Magnets & Magnetism  
Magpies
Malaria Vaccine?
Mercury in Vaccines  
Meteors and Extinctions - includes Composition of Meteors and Oklo Natural Reactors
Mortars and Pestles
M Theory - When Branes Collide
Mini - Nuclear Bombs (thread - Bombs Bursting Out All Over)
Nanobes
Nuclear Power  (with some discussion of alternate energy sources)
Ozone Layer   
Photons and Transparency  
Pipe Specifications
Placebos  
Prize Winning Scientists
       Eureka Prizes, 2002, 2003 , 2004  , 2005 , 2006
       Malcolm McIntosh Prize
       Prime Minister's Prize
       IgNobel Prizes ,2002,2003, 2004 , 2005 , 2006

Pumps and Pumping Water
Quotations - suitable for all occasions
Real Gases - as opposed to Ideal Behaviour
Remembering Doug Rickards  
Renewable Energy
Safe Disposal of Chemicals - includes links to MSDS (Materials Safety Data Sheets)
Ricin
Safe Nuclear Energy 
Sampling Water
SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Saving Energy (& Water)
Science Matters Award for Stupidity
Science Myths -
        Crop Circles  Gray Dalrymple
        Electric Sun Theory  
        Gaia
        Hoagland's "Monuments Of Mars"
        Red Mercury
        Velikovsky
Scientific Fraud or Error?
SCRamjet Tests

Sex and Temperature
S.I. Units
A Skink's Tail
Small Hive Beetle
Snake Behaviour  
Space Elevator  
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
Solar Eclipse, December 4, 2002
Speed of Light - is it changing?
Spiders -  
Spinal Cord Injuries
Stealth Creationism Hits Australia   
Stirling Engines 

Swinging Balls - mainly cricket 
Taggants in Explosives - thread  -  SpaceDaily Express Letter re Bali
Terminal Velocity - includes speculation on Superman's homeworld...  

Testing the Paranormal - Randi and the JREF
The Greatest Scientists of All Time 
The Monty Hall Problem  
Things that Go Bang (from Mythbusters) 

Thorium  
Time
Tourism for Science Nuts 
Trams  - includes Trams Produce More Air Pollution, and Trams and Public Transport
Transit of Venus, June 2004  
TV Reception
Unsafe Nuclear Industry?
Using Light to Measure the Universe
Vancomycin Resistance 
Vegetarianism and Strength Sports
Water Cleaning
Water on Mars
Water Restrictions  
Wetlands  
Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus
White/Pink Noise and Tinnitus
Women and Weight Training
Worldwide Water Wars?