The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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Is this for Genetic Engineering experts?
Proposal: Genetic Engineering
Is this for people who actually know about, understand and work with genetic engineering? Or is it just for people who are 'worried about their health'?
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What type of questions should an academic field site aim to answer?
I'm curious what the scope should be for questions on a site like this. I can think of a few appropriate areas:
Literature search questions: When you are looking for more subtle expertise on a ...
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Are sufficiently advanced paper airplanes on topic?
And if so where should the line be drawn?
I would be most interested in a line that would specify that questions regarding aerodynamics of advanced paper airplanes (beyond very simple stuff) and/or ...
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Proposal: Merge Anthropology and Sociology
Proposal: Merge Anthropology and Sociology.
These two social sciences seem to cover a lot of the same ground, so much so that many universities merge the two into one program. Perhaps we should do ...
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Sensitive Info?
Proposal: Jurimetrics
Excuse me if I'm wrong, I don't know the full scope of this proposal.
I'm afraid that some idiot is going to disclose info that may be sensitive/shouldn
t be released to the ...
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1answer
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Why Proto-Indo-European language and culture proposal was deleted?
It was here: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41724/proto-indo-european-language-and-culture
It had 13 followers.
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Newcomers: please vote and ask questions
The number of people following this proposal for an Aviation and Aerospace Q/A site is growing steadily. However, the number of example questions and more importantly the number of cast votes is ...
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Can a pilot land a commercial plane just by using the PFD? [closed]
Im interested to know the most critical information and tools which are required for a pilot to successfully make a smooth landing or takeoff?
Does the pilot need a live view of the front window?
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How will this one be publicized to get many users?
Proposal: Science at Home
How will this be made known to teacher, retired teachers, science writers, parents, home technology hobbyists, etc? Some excellent SE proposals flop because they've chosen ...
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Do advanced quantitative questions have a place on this site?
Proposal: Economics
I ask because I only see a few quantitative questions on the list currently, none of which have very many votes. Basic questions on game theory are certainly nice, but would ...
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Why not a separate site for program R?
There are more than 28,500 questions about R at stackoverflow.com, so why doen't we have a separate site where users can ask specific questions about Program R without risking their question being ...
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Should the **Ornithology and birdwatching** proposal include discussion of the science of ornithology?
Proposal: Ornithology and birdwatching
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Should the name be “Mathematical Software” rather than “Mathematics Software”?
Proposal: Mathematics Software [other than Mathematica]
Should the name of the proposed project be "Mathematical Software" rather than "Mathematics Software"?
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Duplicate of biology?
Proposal: Ecology
Is this really a duplicate of biology? Sure they're closely related, but biology is primarily concerned with the internal operation of organisms. Ecology is more closely related to ...
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1answer
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Can we include everyone interested in the description?
Proposal: Astronomy
Proposed Q&A site for astronomers and astrophysicists.
Sorry, I can't commit because I'm not an expert and only 'just curious'.
Shouldn't the description be changed to ...
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Science theories vs science fiction
Proposal: Humanity's Future
Does this site focus solely on proven science or should all potential futures be explored? If the latter then we have to be careful not to diverge into fantasy. Of course, ...
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Lessons from the closure of the previous Econ.SE
Proposal: Economics
Could anyone from the previous Econ.SE say anything about what can be learned from its closure about a year ago? (see this page)
Was it because its target audience was too ...
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Are there good reasons to have a specifically microeconomics proposal instead of only a broader Economics?
The Microeconomics proposal has been labeled as a possible duplicate of the Economics proposal, so I wanted to start a discussion about why it should stand on its own.
Proposal: Microeconomics
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Does this proposal have an identity crisis?
Proposal: Marine Engineering
As a professional in the marine industry for over 30 years I am somewhat confused by the title and proposed questions for this site.
As I understand it the term "Marine ...
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1answer
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Don't overvote!
Proposal: Aviation and Aerospace
As you probably know, we have more than enough users to go into the next stage but need 20 more questions with 10 votes or more.
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to ...
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How do you plan to build a community of “interdisciplinar” experts?
Proposal: Interdisciplinary
Stack Exchange is all about attract the experts, the rest will follow. With such a broader theme I do not think you can get enough experts to support the community.
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Is `Weather Forecasting' too specific and/or would `Meteorology' be too generic?
Proposal: Weather Forecasting
Weather Forecasting is a huge topic with lots of opportunities for great questions, but even including amateur forecasters the community is probably rather small.
Would ...
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Why can't the old Astronomy Proposal be revived using the audience of this proposal
Proposal: Astronomy
As many of you might be aware that there was an old Astronomy proposal which was closed in the beta phase. And now there is this proposal which is in commitment phase. Why can't ...
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Medical and Pharmacology Research, Diagnosis Treatment and Homework Help [closed]
Proposal: Medical and Pharmacology Science
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The Biology beta has an Orinthology tag, is this proposal redundant
The Biology beta already had an ornithology tag. Is the Ornithology and birdwatching proposal redundant or in competition with the Biology beta. How can we inform users of the Biology beta that are ...
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Planetary Sciences/ Exobiology
Proposal: Astronomy Space Exploration
These are two major areas in Space where both Space Exploration and Astronomy might claim significant overlap, and I think it's worth exploring in more detail. ...
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Notice on old closed site, about new proposed site? Invite to commit?
Proposal: Astronomy
There seems to be a gulf between the old, closed Astronomy site, and this new, up and coming Astronomy proposal. Can't someone put a link on the old site to point to the new? ...
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Difference w “engineering mechanics”?
Proposal: Mechanical Engineering
At my university the M.Sc. is called engineering mechanics. Is it the same as mechanical engineering?
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Building Design instead of Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
Maybe we should be thinking even more broadly. What if this covers the Building Design in general and "energy modeling" would just be a tag. Other tags could range from "architectural programming" to ...
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Should `Renewable Energy Technology` be dedicated to professionals and scientists?
Proposal: Renewable Energy Technology
It is proposed to merge Renewable Energy Technology with Sustainable Living.
From the describtion of Sustainable Living:
"Sustainable Living is a question and ...
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Scope Discussion: Building Performance AND Building Information Modeling together?
Proposal: Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
Building Energy Modeling (BEM) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) are two seemingly separate domains when looking at tools, existing ...
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Gradual replacement of the (online) EnergyPlus (or choose your favorite tool) helpdesk?
Proposal: Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
Given a private side-channel for transferring files (DropBox, GitHub, etc. see a previous question on this topic), are there any downsides? ...
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Quick favor: can all followers fill out their profiles or at least choose handles more intresting than user90125? [closed]
Proposal: Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
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After the fate of
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23848/theoretical-physics
I am not sure this is a real possibility. I am sorry about it, but does not seem to be realistic.
Proposal: Theoretical and ...
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Merge Health Care,Medicine and Connected Health should be merged to make single Medical.se
I think
Proposal: Health Care, Medicine,and Connected Health should be merged to make a single medical.SE which may gather more traffic and can be a successful site.
In current state they are not ...
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There seems to be an overlap with
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38040/matlab
What to do about it?
Proposal: Mathematics Software [other than Mathematica]
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How did you hear about our proposal?
Proposal: Healthcare IT
In an effort to track our marketing success, please let us know where you heard about this proposal. Area51 search? Other Area51 proposal? Other Stack Exchange site? Yahoo ...
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isn't this part of GIS?
Proposal: Geostatistics seems pretty darn similar to GIS.
How is it different?
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Standard Q&A criteria fundamentally inappropriate for this topic?
Proposal: Mind
Looking through the example questions that have been closed, and the reasons given, it occurs to me that there is a fundamental difference between the topic of "Mind" and most other ...
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5 question per person is not enough! [duplicate]
Proposal: Aviation and Aerospace
Is 5 questions per user enough ? What do you think? I vote for minimum 10 per user to boost this forum.
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Is this economics different enough from finance-economics proposal?
Proposal: Economics
Would this site be significantly different from the proposed "finance-economics"?
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/41407/finance-economics
It describes itself as ...
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Computational Logic
How about creating a Computational Logic stack exchange site?
It would involve the theory of using mathematical logic in computer science and in formal methods (yes, another name suggestion): theorem ...
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How to treat questions about astrology or aliens?
Proposal: Astronomy
From time to time when I say that I work in astronomy, I get questions about alien life (mostly) and more rarely about effect of planets and stars on our life. I wouldn't be ...
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Similar proposal to Data
Proposal: Data
I launched new proposal for Open Data http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/51674/open-data. Now looking at Data proposal closely I see a lot of similarities but also one ...
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Does this site include Semantic Web Search?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
Does this site is also for question about semantic search engines like dbpedia.org? And for questions on developing applications that use the web of ...
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e^(pi/z3)-pi-z3-gg = 15.00000000, …integer approximations UI? [closed]
Proposal: Mathematics Software [other than Mathematica]
emacs pari/GP maxima perl Bignum.pm js mySql ... for integer approximations UI
Help obtain friendly console and web UI to
have fun obtaining ...
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Data Science Proposal
Proposal: I think its good time to have a Data Science community. The basic goal is that people from different disciplines like health, education, economics, agriculture, advertisement, etc working ...
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How would discusisons on different software tools be handled?
Proposal: Building Performance Simulation & Analysis
How would this site be organized to address questions related to specific simulation tools. The obvious answer to this question is tags but ...
