On top of that, the complaint alleges, Quincy hasn’t proven satisfactorily that apoaequorin ingested orally can cross the blood-brain barrier
Cecil Adams
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Is flying really worse for the environment than driving?
Unless you’re hoofing it, though, most forms of travel take some earthly toll.
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Why aren’t internal organs symmetrical?
n creatures as in Chryslers, external bilateral symmetry just makes sense
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Do dogs have better protection from ticks than people do?
Blame climate change in part, as more regions become warm and humid enough to support tick activity
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Can Congress override a presidential pardon?
It’s simply not the president’s jurisdiction. This may come as some surprise to the current officeholder, who last year tweeted that “all agree the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon.”
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Why is Asian earwax different from black and white people’s earwax?
It’s been understood for a while that the consistency of one’s earwax is a genetic trait, distributed ethnogeographically.
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Why does ‘nuts’ mean crazy?
The word nut has been in circulation since the very dawn of the English language
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Why does South America grow all the coca?
Hailing from the genus Erythroxylum, coca’s indigenous to the Andes, where for millennia people have been cultivating a few species whose leaves they chew as a stimulant.
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How often do emergency vehicles get into accidents?
Perhaps a reason you haven’t witnessed these accidents yourself is they tend to occur under specific conditions: often on rural roads, often at night.
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Is there a link between the Zika virus and toxoplasmosis?
The story of rubella is a pretty close match: it wasn’t considered dangerous for about 50 years after discovery, until it was linked with congenital defects in the 1940s.
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How dangerous are cows?
In 2016 the Bureau of Labor Statistics tallied 19 workplace deaths primarily caused by bovines, half the total attributed to nonhuman mammals in all.
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Is there a link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer?
So what we’re looking at is disturbing anecdotal information piled up over decades, but no preponderance of evidence