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Why aren’t internal organs symmetrical?
From the outside, our bodies appear to be: eyes, ears, arms, and elbows.
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Why are different races correlated with two different types of earwax, and when did this divergence occur?
A bold new era for earwax research has dawned.
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Why is coca only cultivated in South America?
Other lucrative plants like coffee and chocolate are grown in multiple locations.
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Are Zika and toxoplasmosis related?
Should we fear microcephaly causing diseases equally?
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How dangerous are cows?
The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?
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The CTA is crowded and slow. The Reader can fix it!
If only the Straight Dope were running the city!
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When did adult diapers become commercially available?
Cecil Adams soaks up the origin story of adult incontinence products.
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From the field to the office
How Craigslist brought me out of the cold and into the Reader office.
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Letters and Comments: Readers’ Plans to Fix the El
Readers’ Plans to Fix the El
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How to Fix the El
The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization Project is a rare chance to rethink Chicago’s rail system. Here’s what we should do.
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The Straight Dope Podcast
From the great Cecil Adams: No time for retro print technology? Listen to the Straight Dope while you multitask! Launch iTunes, then search for “Straight Dope” in the iTunes Store. Click on “subscribe” and Cecil’s latest installment of wisdom will be automatically delivered each week.
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Slashie/Slashy: Not a thing, at least in Chicago
Cecil Adams reveals Time Out Chicago‘s attempt to poison our local booze discourse by calling taprooms “slashies” and does a little sleuthing on the date of origin of the term. Honestly, I always thought it was a bastardization of Kordell Stewart’s nickname.