In the end, our health-insurance system doesn’t look too different from what you’d get if you’d set out to design one as expensive as you could manage
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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How do we know poisons are tasteless and odorless?
How do we know poisons are tasteless and odorless? The recent dispatch of Kim Jong-nam by VX poisoning is all over the news at the moment, and reports invariably describe […]
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What do movie production credits mean?
Between 1994 and 2013, the average number of producers per movie climbed from 5.8 to 10.1
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When did humans start wiping themselves post-defecation?
Our pressing need to wipe is the result of a significant anatomical difference separating us from the rest of creation
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How did anyone do math in Roman numerals?
Let me toss that question right back at you, Leonard: How do you solve complex math problems?