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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Why don’t horses have horns?
Horses aren’t as closely related to many of their horned kin as one might think to look at them
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Why does lethal injection go wrong so often?
The irony here is that the earliest advocates of chemical execution actually got the idea from animal euthanasia
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Has human evolution stopped?
Humans may already be developing resistance to HIV and other viruses
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Are there better ways out of a burning building than the stairs?
Building safety is one field where disruption matters less than incremental improvement
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What countries accept political refugees from the U.S. on short notice?
The election of an unqualified bully as chief exec won’t in itself do the trick