Lead Story As Denver’s newsweekly Westword asked in a May 2009 story, “Where would you take a $100,000 check that is also a suicide note, to the cops or to […]
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Do the feds profit off patents?
I once heard NASA was the only government department to show a profit due to patents on things such as Teflon, Velcro, and Tang. Any truth to this? – Michelle, […]
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Mistress Flogger
Lead Story In a nondescript building next to a mosque in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, the Qadeer brothers discreetly make and market a million dollars’ worth of fetish and bondage products […]
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Moving Mars and Venus
With the dearth of good real estate on Earth, I’ve been considering alternatives. How much energy would it take to move Mars into Earth’s orbit? Would it work better if […]
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The new waterboarding
Lead Story The New Waterboarding: In April, the district attorney in Vilas County, Wis., announced that he was seeking volunteers for a forensic test to help his case against Douglas […]
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Of bras and breasts
Do bras really keep breasts from sagging as you get older? -Curious Oh, bras probably do something. It’s just that nobody can agree on what it is. I won’t pretend […]
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Sympathy for the devil
Lead Story Convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, now serving a life sentence in the Florence, Colo., “Supermax” prison, filed a 39-page federal lawsuit in March alleging unconstitutional “cruel […]
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Air embolisms
What’s the deal with air in your bloodstream being lethal? Is this true? I have to assume it is; presumably it’s the reason for tapping on a syringe to get […]