Lead Story “Why are you still alive?” is the question doctors ask Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-rock singer and reality-TV star, who says he is now clean and sober after a […]
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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What is DARPA and what is it up to?
How many years ahead of us is DARPA, technologically, and what secrets do you think they may be hiding from us? – A curious kid DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research […]
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Paying people to take their meds?
Lead Story A severe but underappreciated American drug problem (sometimes deadly and often expensive) is patients’ failure to take prescribed medications — even to save their own lives (such as […]
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Snipers & the Coriolis Effect
I recently read an article about a Navy SEAL sniper. The author lists possible variables that go into determining a shot, one of which is the rotation of the earth. […]
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‘Holistic rubrics’
Lead Story New York state school officials had promised to crack down on soft test-grading to end the near-automatic grade-advancement by students unprepared for promotion. However, a June New York […]
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This is your brain on Jell-O
I remember a story from the 80s about lime Jell-O giving off brainwaves. When I mentioned this the other day I got into a long argument about microtubules, consciousness, and […]
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Norwegian prisons
Lead Story It’s clear, based on a May Time magazine dispatch, that Norway’s felons and miscreants are of a superior class than America’s. When Norway’s brand-new Halden prison opened in […]