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    Is making Hajj an ordeal?

    Assume that the person has a fear of travelling (and flying)... and has toilet problems... gets hungry and thirsty every now and then... has always lived/slept alone... never shared his bathroom/toilet with anybody and hates (and is afraid of) crowds. and who gets tired of walking pretty...
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    What are these 'vain desires' of ours that we see in many Islamic articles and

    in the Quran/Ahaadeeth? Are they desires of sex and money?
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    Why is my Physics textbook so sexist?

    Almost everyone in the word problems in my Physics textbook is, surprisingly, female. A rock climber - female. An astronaut - female. A farmer/tractor driver - female. A skier - female. A monkey - you guessed it - FEMALE! Do you have anything to say? Well, there are 'male examples', but compared...
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    What peculiar properties of water are they talking about?

    "The solid-liquid phase boundary in the phase diagram of most substances has a positive slope; the greater the pressure on a given substance, the closer together the molecules of the substance are brought to each other, which increases the effect of the substance's intermolecular forces. Thus...
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    Are wind and air resistance the same thing?

    I mean... wind causes air resistance, right? No wind = negligible air resistance, right? Can 'wind' be a source of error in experiments used to find a value for the acceleration due to gravity, for instance projectile motion experiments, rolling a trolley down a slope, dropping a ball from a...
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    Can the sex of a person be determined by a urine test?

    Why or why not?
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