Extras
The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
Parents with no spines
Lead Story “Consensual Living” parenting, which was developed in 2006 and now has many hundreds of followers, supposes that every family member’s needs are equally valid and respectworthy. Even pre-adolescents […]
Don’t Tase me, bro!
How lethal are Tasers? I know there’s talk about police being Taser-happy and torturing people with these devices, but has anyone been Tasered to death? -Dugie C., Calgary News a […]
Iceland on the cutting edge
Lead Story When Alcoa Inc. prepared to build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland in 2004, the government forced it to hire an expert to assure that none of the […]
Killer beets
I recently heard a rumor that sugar processed from beets contains traces of a poison used as a combat weapon in World War II. Is this true? What’s the difference […]
No memory of nukes
Lead Story The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently postponed its crucial program to rejuvenate quarter-century-old Trident missile warheads because no one can remember how to make a key component […]