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Why doesn’t the President freeze gas prices?
By Cecil Adams
October 19, 2012
Why aren't two-by-fours two inches by four inches?
By Cecil Adams
October 12, 2012
Can I seek sanctuary in a church?
By Cecil Adams
October 5, 2012
Are shrinks nuts?
By Cecil Adams
September 28, 2012
How many ice cubes would it take to put out the sun?
By Cecil Adams
September 21, 2012
Could an attacking 50-foot woman actually exist?
By Cecil Adams
September 14, 2012
Does asteroid mining threaten the earth?
By Cecil Adams
September 7, 2012
Does castration = longer life?
By Cecil Adams
August 31, 2012
Can we now transmute base substances into gold?
By Cecil Adams
August 24, 2012
Are transsexuals mentally ill?
By Cecil Adams
August 17, 2012
How can water be wasted? Doesn’t it automatically recycle?
By Cecil Adams
August 10, 2012
If evolution is all about survival of the fittest, why are we attracted to the cutest?
By Cecil Adams
August 3, 2012
Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?
By Cecil Adams
July 26, 2012
Will Coke and asparagus cure kidney stones?
By Cecil Adams
July 20, 2012
Is Wikipedia more reliable than the Encyclopaedia Britannica?
By Cecil Adams
July 13, 2012
Could an electromagnetic pulse disrupt civilization?
By Cecil Adams
July 6, 2012
Are college students promiscuous?
By Cecil Adams
June 29, 2012
Can alien beings listen in on TV and radio broadcasts from earth?
By Cecil Adams
June 22, 2012
Can I avoid paying a tax bill by writing “accepted for value” on it?
By Cecil Adams
June 15, 2012
Is a cruise ship a cheap alternative to an old folks’ home?
By Cecil Adams
June 8, 2012
What’s up with obnoxiously loud TV shows and commercials?
By Cecil Adams
June 1, 2012
Was Jesus copied from the Egyptian god Horus?
By Cecil Adams
May 25, 2012
What’s the likeliest doomsday scenario?
By Cecil Adams
May 18, 2012
Did the creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index volunteer to get stung by everything on earth?
By Cecil Adams
May 11, 2012
What purpose do allergies serve?
By Cecil Adams
May 4, 2012
Followup: How much energy is wasted hauling around U.S. body fat?
By Cecil Adams
April 27, 2012
Is marijuana stronger than it used to be?
By Cecil Adams
April 20, 2012
Does Daylight Saving Time increase road kill?
By Cecil Adams
April 13, 2012
Can a hard-hit baseball crush your skull (revisited)?
By Cecil Adams
April 6, 2012
Can static electricity kill you?
By Cecil Adams
March 30, 2012
Does cutting taxes create jobs?
By Cecil Adams
March 23, 2012
Is there an official U.S. manual on how to conduct a hanging?
By Cecil Adams
March 16, 2012
If you turn up the heat on a frog in water so slowly it doesn’t notice, will it eventually boil alive?
By Cecil Adams
March 9, 2012
Will using expired drugs kill you?
By Cecil Adams
March 2, 2012
Is excess American body fat a potential energy resource? Plus: why is prostitution called the oldest profession?
By Cecil Adams
February 24, 2012
Is colorblindness an evolutionary advantage?
By Cecil Adams
February 17, 2012
Are scientists trying to clone a woolly mammoth?
By Cecil Adams
February 10, 2012
Why are eco-fascists trying to ban incandescent bulbs?
By Cecil Adams
February 3, 2012
Why video games are good for you.
By Cecil Adams
January 27, 2012
Are blue states smarter than red states?
By Cecil Adams
January 20, 2012
What’s the best animal to slice open and crawl inside to stay warm?
By Cecil Adams
January 13, 2012
Why can’t we use lasers as ray guns?
By Cecil Adams
January 6, 2012
Know any good recipes for endangered prehistoric fish? Plus: Do caribou like the Alaska oil pipeline?
By Cecil Adams
December 30, 2011
Is setting yourself on fire a good way to treat snakebite?
By Cecil Adams
December 16, 2011
Why is there no blue food?
By Cecil Adams
December 9, 2011
Is there a God (revisited)?
By Cecil Adams
December 2, 2011
Can we fight global warming with artificial global cooling?
By Cecil Adams
November 25, 2011
What’s that smell right before it rains? Plus: Will spinning around too much kill you?
By Cecil Adams
November 18, 2011
Is there such a thing as death by halibut?
By Cecil Adams
November 11, 2011
Is there a God?
By Cecil Adams
November 4, 2011
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