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Can knowingly and willingly murdering someone interfere with a women's menstural cycle? [closed]
On Peacemaker, Harcourt, one of the characters, mentions that when she first killed someone, her periods stopped happening for quite a bit.
My question is this: Just how realistic is that?
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How will the future of work look like? [closed]
A few observations.
Actual job - which fill directly and efficiently real human basic needs - are getting scarce, there is a surge of bullshit jobs, an accrual of complex and rhetorical organizations ...
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How CAN You Justify Melalo's Dorsal Casque?
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Melalo, described in the Book of Creatures website as "the oldest and most feared of Ana's children." His name literally means "filthy", "dirty&...
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Would a warhorse allow its rider to approach a Dragon at all?
Would a horse (trained or otherwise) not be wholly spooked by a Dragon merely flying overhead, even more so trying to enter combat with it or just trying to approach it under any circumstances?
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Can humans be conditioned to become non-violent and forget how to defend themselves?
Okay, so here's a quick scenario. Humans over the course of time have been selected to breed based on how docile they are. The violent ones are exterminated and all outside sources have been shut out. ...
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I Need Help With Human Degenerative Disease (HDD) [closed]
I am currently working on a post-apocalyptic world where roughly 90% of humanity get infected by HDD (Human Degenerative Disease). HDD causes the human brain, glands and tissues to change quite ...
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Do aliens gamble? [closed]
I have read a number of sources that indicate that gambling behaviours in humans are the result of evolutionary adaptations.
If gambling is the result of the specific evolutionary history of our ...
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Ringed Planet: The shadow's effect on fauna
I am writing a fantasy novel centered on an Earth-like planet with icy rings like Saturn. This question deals with certain effects of having such a ring system. Assume the planet is Earth, the rings ...
