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IgNobel Prize Nominations: Cell Biology
Atanas Todorov Atanasov's interesting and challenging theory that cells have their own central nervous systems are inspired by Ulam's noöcyte research, and by James Blish's observations of paramecium...
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Black planet hanging over the highway
There will aggressive drinking and shouting at clouds if those miniature planets do not get out of my face soon, for they are annoying and distracting beyond endurance as they weave around in a complex...
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The post corresponding to this title appears to have been thrown out with the forest.
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Bears do not shit in the woods. Bears have never shat in the woods
Right up to 10 days ago the Republican Party's bloggers and ideologues seemed to be a lock for the 2015 IgNobel Prize in Theology, with their critiques of the Pope for propounding an insufficiently...
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Chocolate Bunnies go punk
Packed for shipping: If the Doktorling has any sense she will save the packaging for re-use next Crossmas....additional seasonal imagery recycled from two years ago because lazy.
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Workshop of the Telescopes #2: Irritation of Christ
A NZ bishop knows what it is like to suffer crucifixion. Apparently it was a brutal form of execution favoured by the Romans, in which numpties who opened their pieholes and let the stupid out became...
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In an alternative reality, the denizens of 100-Aker Wood were a team of...
"Lend us the Riddled time machine!" they begged. "Promise we will not use it to meddle with important historical events!"This never ends well.
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A Spectrum is haunting Texas
Shifting the absorption spectra of the photopigments in one's eyes, so as to extend the visual spectrum into near-infrared, was first accomplished with a cocktail of mescaline and methylene blue,...
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Yes the light, that never, never warms
This is always good advice:In particular, do not provoke the cliffs with your karate or your Saturday-Night-Fever dance moves.Cliffs may retaliate with ORBS ice boulders.
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Together they fight crime
Hi, Ginj. Wass' happenin'?Hi Bun. You know, same old same old, mustn't grumble... Someone's coming! Cat? I know nothing of this "Cat" whereof you speak.I have never seen that lagomorph before in my...
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A question for the readers
Is there some scam I don't know about, or a clickbait website that lures a gullible Ukrainian audience by offering them access to the world of wonder and delight that is Riddled? Because this is our...
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If I may put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that Man has...
"It's Monday night," said Evangeline van Holsterin, head barmaid at the Old Entomologist, "so the Com-post [Wellington's paper of record] will have reprinted a press-release from some...
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Dogma. meet karma... but I see you've already been introduced chased each other
A Juggernaut from the Ratha-Yatra is top-heavy, slow-moving, and hugely impractical, and requires a vast staff of minions. Surprisingly, there are no Top Gear episodes in which the team commandeer a...
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It's a pity that there are no Blue Öyster Cult lyrics on the theme of...
Which scientific specialty attracts the greatest number of independent researchers whose innovative ideas are best expressed in green ink and miniscule script on the backs of old envelopes? This...
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Making Cockade
It was 4.20 in the Riddled office, which had relocated for convenience to the Wigglesworth lounge at the Old Entomologist, where we were trying to watch "Inanimate Objects Cage Match" on the Sports TV,...
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We drink elixirs that we refine From the juices of the dying (#2)
Call me old-fashioned but I do not rate for holothurians as a culinary ingredient, not after the lamentable white-sauce episode... it was a mistake anyone could have made, with 'bêche-de-mer' and...
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Despite the name, Slippery Elms are not well-lubricated and can cause woodcuts
An earlier post was focussed on snake-oil economics --She will be starting GCMAF shortly which is a product from Switzerland & comes with a price tag of $4,000 for 6 weeks supply. If this treatment...
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Quirk Strangeness and Charm
So yesterday was the mandatory refresher course in "Social Responsibility for Mad Scientists". None of the speakers specifically singled out the alarums and excursions with the vat-grown godmeat and...
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It's Tuesday so it must be time to make fun of Australians!
And to help us in that worthy endeavour, their Pry Minster Tony Abbott has been over here in New Zild, unveiling the new War Memorial.Now our War Memorial Park is an itty-bitty affair and a very recent...
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The small, strange drum emitted only two notes, and it almost croaked them:...
The Whackyweedia reports that after the Tibetan diaspora, skull hand-drumsbegan to be manufactured in India and Nepal, with a continued degradation of quality.[Alas, no citation to explain whether the...
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