The CRISPR-Cas9 editing process still looks like the revolutionary development it’s been touted as over the last four years, and research hums along at a remarkable pace. Still, some of the more dramatic projections surely won’t pan out.
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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What laws apply to crimes committed in space?
It’s not like authorities have been reluctant to export earth-style legal thinking into the cosmos
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How do “odor eliminators” work?
The air-freshener people have been doing their best for decades now, of course: teaching us to feel shame about smells intrinsic to ordinary human existence and peddling a succession of new and improved products designed to obscure them
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What if the Cuban missile crisis had gone badly?
For a week in October 1962 the whole planet was wondering if Cold War antagonism was about to boil over into nuclear armageddon
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How would you know if a nuclear war started?
I’m already nostalgic for the days when civilization seemed less likely to end with a bang than a whimper