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Goatspell
See what happens when a giant coconut crab is allowed unsupervised access to the Interducts? It reads on Alt-Med supplement-pimping websites that an unstressed 70-kilogram goat produces 13000 mg of...
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The dream will soon turn sour
Here at the Mad Scientist Anti-Defamation League we were intrigued by this recent paper in Frontiers Neuroscience: Not so much by the content, which is so non-controversial that one wonders why the...
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Snakes on a Trireme
Scientists in Italy rediscover snake that was used by ancient Greeks as a weapon of warScientists in Italy have rediscovered a type of snake that the ancient Greeks used to hurl at their enemies to...
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A twist of lemming
Must credit Gilbert of the Respectful Insolence commentariat for bringing this story to Riddled attention. Given their size, skwirl brains are never going to be a major part of anyone's diet, but...
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Red-Eyed Braindeer (twist of lemming #2)
It turns out that children's publishers do not rate for story lines in which the initial main protagonist disappears abruptly from the cast of characters after the first act. They are not well-pleased...
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Engram for Ammo Budy!
'Tyranical'? 'Goverment'? The camo-clad grifters squatting at an Oregon wildlife sanctuary are experiencing the woes of alphabetical privation. Or perhaps they are unclear on the concept of...
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Without remoras
This Liparis reinhardti or Arctic sea-tadpole (a.k.a. snailfish) -- largest of the careproctus fishes* -- is unclear on the threat posed by fish-eating deer. It is disguising itself with a human-skull...
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Yet all were left unstoned
This is a colony of white-fronted terns (Sterna striata) on the end of the Aramoana mole. Pair-bonds are retained from one season to the next.* Before laying, the male courtship-feeds the female,...
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Don't miss the deadline It's almost the deadline, darling I wouldn't want it...
The people at Rerum.biz a.k.a. Immunobiotech.nz have set themselves a goal of 1 Feb to start shipping "Rerum" from their secret volcano laboratory (40 St Benedicts Street, Auckland) to anywhere in the...
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Oh, Edmund, can it be true, that I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of...
Click to embiggen1. We are not in the habit of classifying chemical reactions according to their location along the visible spectrum, but I have to say that 'green chemistry' sounds like something that...
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Courtesy of commenter BiloSagdiyev at LGM:Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'According to Russian newspaper reports, in the 1940s Stalin's secret police had set up a special...
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The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor...
Bribery: We're doin it rong.The New Zealand Government still intends to give a $3 million abattoir to Saudi Arabia [...]But Mr Key said the abattoir would still be sent."We don't have any plans to...
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The truth about global warming
Apparently it's caused by quantifying magnetic field changes. Things were fine until we started measuring. ...The vanity-publishing scammers at SCIRP are onto a good thing with Michael Persinger (whom...
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'I saw something unspeakable and indescribable in the woodshed,' said Aunt...
A Riddled Book Club report:Clearly the authors are heavily indebted to H.P. Lovecraft. A once-flourishing dairy farm is struck by an inexplicable creeping malaise, a glacial moraine murrain, with the...
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The Economic Development Minister took it on the chin, as it were
Further comment is unnecessary difficult.Steven Joyce hit by sex toy thrown by protester at Waitangi
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Those are worship words! Riddled worship! You will not speak them!
Acharya Shilak Ram, of Acharya Academy (Haryana), is working the Riddled side of the street. This aggression, will it stand? [spoiler: NO]Publish your Research Papers in International registered and...
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Valentine's Day
I am quietly confident that the Frau Doktorin will be turned on by my Sexy Banana-Slug Costume.
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The Persecution and Assassination of Antonin Scalia as Performed by the Ninja...
Here at the Riddled Research Institute and Liquorice All-Sorts Abuse Hotline, we have been apprised of reactions to the recent demise of an American jurist and reminder of Reaganite criminality (a)...
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Report on Improbability A
The concealed but deleterious effects of pesticides upon the people exposed to them should come as no surprise. According to a French documentary screened recently at the Riddled Film Club, these...
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