I’ve heard coconut juice is almost identical to human blood plasma, and has been used as a plasma substitute during wartime. I asked a friend from Vietnam who lived there […]
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Can’t tap out Jesus!
Lead Story Pastor John Renken’s Xtreme Ministries of Memphis, Tenn., is one of a supposedly growing number of churches that use “mixed martial arts” events to recruit wayward young men […]
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Doctors, teething and fevers, oh my
Why do babies run fevers when teething? More important, why do doctors claim that they don’t? Is it just so stupid/inexperienced mamas won’t ignore a serious infection when they erroneously […]
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Canine chastity belts: An idea whose time has come?
Lead Story When Dexter Blanch’s dog nearly died from complications during spay surgery, he decided to use the event as inspiration and brought to market a chastity belt to give […]
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Does the Air Quality Index actually mean anything?
My brother refuses to go running on days the air quality index tells him not to because he doesn’t want to die sooner. My idea: how do we go about […]
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Moral: Keep your mouth shut
Lead Story In all likelihood, convicted murderer Paul Powell would have been sentenced to life in prison for his 1999 crime, but he could not resist gratuitously ridiculing the prosecutor. […]
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White people in turmoil
Lead Stories (1) April Gaede, who four years ago guided her teenage daughters, Lynx and Lamb (performing as “Prussian Blue”), to a brief music career singing neo-Nazi songs, announced a […]
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Is the Myers-Briggs test a bunch of BS?
Is the Myers-Briggs personality assessment just an example of modern-day snake oil sold by corporate soothsayers? Or does it really work? Certainly a huge industry has built up around this […]