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Home » Straight Dope

Tag: Straight Dope

Posted inNews & Politics

Why is coca only cultivated in South America?

by Cecil Adams May 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Other lucrative plants like coffee and chocolate are grown in multiple locations.

Posted inNews & Politics

How often do emergency vehicles get into car accidents?

by Cecil Adams May 4, 2018August 18, 2021

Are police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks immune to traffic accidents?

Posted inNews & Politics

Are Zika and toxoplasmosis related?

by Cecil Adams April 27, 2018August 18, 2021

Should we fear microcephaly causing diseases equally?

Posted inNews & Politics

How dangerous are cows?

by Cecil Adams April 20, 2018August 18, 2021

The Straight Dope: Should you get a moo-ve on if a cow comes charging your way?

Posted inNews & Politics

Where did two-letter postal abbreviations come from?

by Cecil Adams April 16, 2018August 18, 2021

The Straight Dope mails in this week’s column.

Posted inBlogs

The CTA is crowded and slow. The Reader can fix it!

by Aimee Levitt February 21, 2018August 18, 2021

If only the Straight Dope were running the city!

Posted inBlogs

When did adult diapers become commercially available?

by Cecil Adams August 26, 2016August 18, 2021

Cecil Adams soaks up the origin story of adult incontinence products.

Posted inBlogs

Pick up the redesigned Chicago Reader on newsstands today

by Jake Malooley July 30, 2015August 18, 2021

Check out the Reader‘s fresh, new look in print.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Thu 4/17: Follow the Reader, Thom Andersen, and Dim Lighting

by Lisa Schulz April 17, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, April 17

Posted inBlogs

Regrets, I’ve had TKHOWMANY

by Sam Worley September 27, 2012August 19, 2021

When words just aren’t enough

Posted inBlogs

Precolonial menstrual solutions? Plants, of course

by Jena Cutie August 16, 2012August 19, 2021

Before there were tampons, we had softened papyrus leaves

Posted inBlogs

Reconsidering sunblock

by Kevin Warwick June 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Sunblock smells like summer, in the best way

Posted inBlogs

Public service announcement: blood

by Sam Worley October 28, 2011August 19, 2021

Where’s all this blood coming from?

Posted inNews & Politics

Letters and Comments: Readers’ Plans to Fix the El

by Chicago Reader March 31, 2011August 19, 2021

Readers’ Plans to Fix the El

CTA riders crowd the Belmont el platform.
Posted inNews & Politics

How to Fix the El

by Ed Zotti March 24, 2011August 19, 2021

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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