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A social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with...
The Social Behaviour of Burying Beetles.Scoff at entomology all you will. The fact remains that if it were not for their clear-eyed observations of the Sexton Beetle Nicrophorus, and of the way these...
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The Abominable Dr Fides
"Bona Fides" would be a good name for an dog-grooming service run by Julian and Sandy. "Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek. Have you brought us something large and hairy to work...
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How to explain Jackson Pollock paintings to a dead hare horse
How did I miss this episode of Mythbusters??I got 99 uses for a dead horse but "beating it" ain't one of them.
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"Every spurious quotation circulating on the Internet aspires to be...
-- De Tocqueville [or possibly Santayana]Research has uncovered an entertaining exercise in forensic scholarship at Quote Investigator, just waiting around waiting to be stolen.In this case the task of...
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Disappointingly, it turns out that Arcology is not the scholarly...
Just look at this magnificent glass palace in the High Modernist style. It is vast but completely empty; also it is modeled after a chicken foot. Perhaps it is a Memory Palace for amnesiacs, designed...
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Shimmering neon lights
The consumer feedback from the new Riddled range of neon-themed bedroom furnishings has not been particularly encouraging. The unfocus group had nothing good to say about our conceptual circular...
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Set the controls for the heart of the earthThe silver machine's worth more...
"Our Own Worst Enemy" came out in 1987 so the price tag quoted for replacing a fighter plane is an order of magnitude or two too low.If the author's account is to be believed, the Swedish Air Force did...
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Merry feckin' christmas
If civil war and religion-stoked genocide in the Central African Republic aren't bad enough... ...the factions have stooped to weaponising medusae.Either that, or major press agencies and news networks...
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Big Pharma Supple
Here at the Riddled Research Laboratory we have had enough experience with 'Computer Intuition' to develop a level of skepticism. It generally ends badly, with the computer turning off life-support for...
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The weasel-poo gourmet coffee-bean industry need not fear the feline competition
Do not eat the magic beans, people! Firstly, no-one wants magic farts. Second, they are likely to germinate internally and send their tendrils sprouting out through all available orifices as well as...
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We are all interested in inside the house, for that is where you and I are...
This is normally the time of year when we at the Riddled Precognition and Futurology Unit provide our subscribers with a list of predictions for the coming 12 months, which we derive through a complex...
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So it would seem, Socrates
What is it about Victor Davis Hanson -- conservative columnist, Peloponnesian war reënactor, and lead sistrum player in Country-&-Western Bœotia-&-Thracia favourites 'The Kindly Ones' -- and...
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Now is the time the old gods return: Goatfoot God edition
Evangeline van Holsterin, head barmaid at the Old Entomologist, swears that she is not prejudiced against chicken feet. Indeed, many of her best customers have chicken feet.The reason for the big sign...
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22 years in congress on the back of a wife.Summing up the total times, I am nowhere near that figure.
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Boots, not made for walking
On the far side of the lake, a submarine disguised as a house is extending its periscope, unless it is a badly-drawn sunflower. In the absence of any indication of scale, we cannot be sure whether...
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Oh those whacky Koreans and their superficial obsession with arbitrary,...
More details from the Murdoch Press: I for one am glad to be living in a culture where saner attitudes prevail and an acceptance of natural personal appearance is the norm.More Health Photos from the...
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Skull-blogging: "Death by Dreaming" edition
Jon Ewbank Manchip White is noted for being named after a mechanical carpet sweeper, and for writing a damned fine fantasy novel of the post-Dream Master visiting-someone-else's-dream genre:What's...
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One-part harmony: Best performed on only the white notes
Let us go then, you and I, in the Riddled time machine -- or down through the windy corridors of Memory, for those of us gifted or cursed with that old-fashioned attribute -- back 40-odd years to 1971....
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Q.: Why did the chicken cross the road?A.: Because some numpty had stuck a...
Ace paleontologist Jack Horner reckons that chickens can easily be converted back into their ancestral dinosaurs by awakening the silent genes lying dormant in their chromosomes, restoring their teeth...
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