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11.26.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I was shocked by your highly ignorant column on "when life begins" [October 24]. You have...

11.26.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I was shocked by your highly ignorant column on "when life begins" [October 24]. You have...

11.19.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I'm sure you've heard the term "concrete shoes," mobsters' choice of swimwear...

11.12.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Having grown up on Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry and similar cartoons, I can't tell you how many...

10.29.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Some time ago, I heard an African-American author talk on NPR about a fact that had inspired him to...

10.22.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS AND ILLUSTRATION SLUG SIGNORINO

Never mind the current demand for the stuff -- what becomes of the void oil drilling creates? If we...

10.15.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS AND ILLUSTRATION BY SLUG SIGNORINO

Samurai swords are reputed to be among the best ever produced, a fact attested to by the practice of...

09.24.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS AND ILLUSTRATION BY SLUG SIGNORINO

In her book Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose w...

09.17.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Over the years I've noticed a variety of siren sounds for emergency vehicles. Is it true siren s...

09.03.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I'm reading World War Z by Max Brooks, a fictional account of the world's response to a zomb...

08.13.08 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Do lightning rods really work?

Cecil Adams is the world's most intelligent human being. We know this because: (1) he knows everything, and (2) he is never wrong.

His syndicated weekly column, the Straight Dope, presently appears in more than 30 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

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