Big Questions
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Noise Annoys

"Why Do We Hate The Sound Of Nails On A Chalkboard?"

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Science Running Out Of Stupid Experiments

"Could picking your nose and eating it actually be good for you?"

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If Your Lunch Doesn't Kill You What You Heat It Up In Will

Will reheating food in plastic containers give you the cancers? Probably. I mean, everything else seems to, so it seems unlikely that it wouldn't. On the other hand, you're gonna die anyway, and carrying around a ceramic bowl is super-inconvenient. It's a toss-up, I guess.

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You Are Exercising Yourself To Death, Which Is Stupid Because You're Going To Die Anyway

Can exercise kill you? Yes. Yes it can.

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Smoke Up Your Dog

"Polls show the majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, but should dogs have it too?"

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Would Facebook Have Prevented Vietnam?

Discuss.

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Even At His Heaviest Elvis Presley Probably Would Not Have Been Able To Bear The Freight Of This Much Symbolism

"Could the Elvis, the hillbilly cat, also be a Avalon mist-figure from an Arthurian Lord-of-the-Dance saga, or the myths of wounded Fisher Kings that stretched clear back to the megaliths of prehistory — and were so seriously and ironically invoked when Constantine and St. Augustine were mixing up Jesus Christ with Mithras to create the official deity of the Roman War Machine? Elvis the Fertility God may have also found himself cross fertilized by the horned and phallic, dark Legba divinities of Dahomey with their human sacrifices and Amazon girl soldiers, but, hell, isn’t that the just story of rock’n’roll?" —Mick Farren [...]

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Why Can't We All Acknowledge Baz Luhrmann's Genius?

"WHAT is it about Baz Luhrmann that tickles the nerve of reviewers so firmly it sees them racing to their blogs proclaiming disapproval of all he does before he has even done it? Is it his love of bold, technicolour dance sequences? Perhaps it's his penchant for melodrama and theatrical characters? Or is it because he's not making gritty, hard-hitting films about life in the suburbs?" —I… DON'T KNOW! You know what I would be first in line to see though? A movie called Baz Luhrmann's Black Hobbit. Don't pretend like that wouldn't be amazing. [Via]

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Brian Eno, Porn Star?

"I have a friend who swears up and down he once saw Eno in a sleazy mid-70s porno loop, in a big 'daisy-chain' orgy scene ('Who else had such a hairstyle back then?' he’d ask). I always dismissed this, but maybe he was right?"

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Will YOU Explode Soon?

"The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, on Wednesday, April 17, killed at least a dozen people and destroyed several blocks of the small town. Is your neighborhood next?"

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Try To Sneeze Without Closing Your Eyes. Hahaha J/K Don't, You'll Die.

Why do we close our eyes when we sneeze? Fuck if I know. This isn't much help either. If you ever figure it out, drop me a line.

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American Sperm

"Why is US sperm so popular?"

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What Organs Are You Wasting Valuable Body Space On?

"Pope Francis Has One Lung: What Organs Can You Live Without?"