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April 1, 2012
Lights Off for Earth Hour? Rightbloggers Leave Lights On, Declare Victory Over So-Called "Environment"
Conservatism is making a big comeback, folks. The proof? The tremendous success of Human Achievement Hour on Saturday. What, you never heard of it? Well, you've heard of Earth Hour, right? That thing where all the stupid hippies turned their lights off for an hour to celebrate their precious, so-ca ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day
Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the UN recognize their homeland as an independent country and address Chinese human rights abuses. Wrapp ... More >>
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October 30, 2011
Birds Know Grammar, Use It Really Good
"Upon whom shall I defecate?"Birds can do it all. They fly, have hollow bones, eat worms all day, and live in houses made of sticks and spit. If you think birds can't get any more amazing, think again. Researchers at the University of Kyoto have found that Bengalese finches follow a pitch pat ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Jesse Prince Back From the Brink; Scientology Petition Takes Off: It's The Thursday Stats Roundup!
Jesse is back!There's been a lot of disturbing news for Scientology watchers to sift through lately -- what with mothers separated from their sons, and a woman stalked because she's trying to design a better ice-maker, it's been a weird and depressing week. But last night, we were stunned by ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Maybe.
Have you long suspected that your boss is a psychopath? Maybe not the kind who's killing prostitutes in a rain coat to the musical stylings of Huey Lewis and the News, but...actually, now you're thinking of it, maybe that? You'll be the opposite of relieved to know that if you work in a corpo ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
One-Celled Protozoa Will Have Sex Inside a Cat Before Killing You
Each week, Death by Science will use the latest scientific research and news from the world of nature and technology to figure out exactly how you are going to die. Our findings have been proven to be 100 percent accurate*. SPOILER ALERT: This week, you will die after a one-celled organism dr ... More >>
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March 19, 2011
Berkeley Residents Panicking Over Almost Non-Existent Radiation
The Daily has an article (not that I can read the whole thing in my iPad-less state!) about irritating Berkeley, Calif. residents being irrationally afraid of radiation from the nuclear crisis in Japan. They are flocking to the area's health food vitamin apothecary-places to buy potassium iodide, ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Righties Like the Right, Lefties Favor the Left, and People Without Hands Are Excluded Again
Every wonder why your right-handed friends are always raising their right hands for things, or reaching to the right, or gazing longingly at whomever's sitting on that side of them? Meanwhile, left-handers are looking mournfully at their left hands, because it sucks to be left-handed? No? Wel ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Human Penises Used to Have Spikes, Wait, Used to Have?
One of them has a spine-covered penisResearchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
FAIR-y Tales
One of them has a spine-covered penisResearchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Crap or Not? 1983's Am I Normal? is the bonerific guide to your changing body
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Am I Normal? Author: Jeanne Betancourt, but based on a film by Debra Franc and D ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Coffee and Smokes May Help You Live Longer, If You Don't Die First
Oh, hey! Special for you this Friday: From Scientific American...When University of Washington scientists fed coffee and tobacco extracts to fruit flies, they found that their dopamine cells (which keep you from getting Parkinson's) survived and their little fly life spans increased. What do ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Science Says Wearing Knockoffs Makes You a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Person
Remember the episode of Sex and the City (one of the soulless ones where the gang all heads to L.A.) in which Samantha acquires a fake Fendi handbag from the back of a car and an array of Very Bad Things Ensue, including getting kicked out of the Playboy mansion for claiming a Playmate's hand ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Study: Pretending to Be Crazy May Make You Insane
Occupational hazards.Well, isn't this a fine kettle of fish we've gotten ourselves into? It seems that if you go around pretending to be mentally ill, you may actually make yourself mentally ill. A new study reports that fakers of such symptoms end up convincing themselves that they really do ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Twitpic via DanaBoscorelli. Up, Up and Awry! The Balloon Boy and his wacky father helped keep our minds off the real world, which sucked even more than usual. In national news, the Nobel Peace Prize continued its deadly rampage across America. But don't despair, rightbloggers: President O ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Zeppelins, The Titanic, and the Future of Education: Studies in Crap Celebrates Progress With a 1913 Scientific American
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Scientific American Date: August 23, 1913 Discovered at: Antique shop Represe ... More >>
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May 4, 2009
The Penis-Shaped Minds of Some Wacky Scientists
Oh brother. Here we go again with the evolutionary psychologists.There's no denying that evolutionary psychology has a sort of hip cache -- the general idea goes that we humans act the way we do because of the way we evolved on the African savanna millions of years ago, even if those inherited behav ... More >>
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March 18, 2008
Boy Soldier of Fortune
A celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces
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October 23, 2007
Free Will Astrology
A celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces
Art
April 15, 2003
Let There Be Light
What's So Popular About Popular Science? Three New Books Take on Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Theater
November 6, 2001
The Trouble With Harry
What's So Popular About Popular Science? Three New Books Take on Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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November 7, 2000
Nation
What's So Popular About Popular Science? Three New Books Take on Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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June 15, 1999
My Own Private Y2K
What's So Popular About Popular Science? Three New Books Take on Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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May 12, 1998
Healing Head Trips
Doctors Explore the Astonishing Power of Placebos

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