Bread is surely among the most obvious food products on earth
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Self-Driving Cars: Closer than you think
So will driverless vehicles really be on the road in two or three years? Heck, they’re there now: as of March, 27 developers were operating a total of 180 autonomous cars on California highways.
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Is Islamic terrorism a response to Western intervention, or something more?
One argument I hear about why Islamist terrorists commit their acts is because the West interfered in their countries. Some examples I can think of: (1) our support of Israel; […]
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Did male dominance put a stop to worshiping female goddesses?
Before the Israelite god Yahweh really made it big, a bevy of other deities shared the stage with him
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So, the world is warming. How bad can we expect things to get?
The contemporaneous effects pale in comparison with what will happen on coasts, and particularly in coastal cities, if oceans rise to the extent of some projections
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Was there ever any determination as to the dangerousness of Agent Orange?
If it seems surprising that the U.S. has yet to fully flush a Vietnam-era toxic agent from its system, consider that nobody’s figured out how to get rid of Henry Kissinger either
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Service animals, emotional support animals, therapy animals–how are they different?
But if you say you use a service dog, guess what? That’s that.