My girlfriend and I were fighting over which led to a greater chance of getting cancer, smoking or tanning. I probably average a cigarette a day, and my girlfriend usually […]
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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More fresh-ground pepper. Stat!
Lead Story Through the years, News of the Weird has reported on restaurants around the world with singularly quirky themes and signature dishes, such as the one in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, […]
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The truth about anal sex
What are the risks of anal sex if the partners are heterosexual and monogamous? Could one contract some disease? And if so, how bad is it? -guerita2kool Let’s get one […]
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His eye is a camera
Lead Story Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence said recently that he would install a prosthetic eye with a camera and wireless transmitter (of the size now used for colonoscopies) into the […]
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Can you really extend your lifespan?
With modern medicine and hygiene and diet, we’ve extended life expectancy far beyond what it’s ever been. Yet we all still get old and die. Few make it past 80 […]
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What’s the ‘God Particle?’
I saw a special on the Large Hadron Collider, which, among other things, hopes to find evidence of the “God particle.” Since physics is not my strong suit, I’ve tried […]
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Straight-up weird
Lead Story University of California researchers, on a Pentagon contract, announced in January success at rigging a live flower beetle with electrodes and a radio receiver to enable scientists to […]
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Diary of the planet
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