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Billiard Break – rerun of #2898

March 13, 2003

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Patterned Ground

March 12, 2003

The cycle of freezing and thawing of soil arranges rocks in the Arctic into neat patterns.

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Driving Side

March 11, 2003

Is it safer to drive on the left or the right side? (It doesn't matter.)

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Ebola Therapy

March 10, 2003

Using the shell of the Ebola virus to deliver gene therapy

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Guy Bashing

March 7, 2003

Boy babies complicate deliveries, dads don't babytalk as well as moms, and men tend to blame outside …

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Our Moon

March 6, 2003

Why doesn't our moon have a name? (It does: Luna. But we use the Germanic name, Moon.)

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Work or Warmth

March 5, 2003

Genes influence whether mitochondria burn calories for work or for warmth.

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Rabbit Fever

March 4, 2003

Can you get rabbit fever from eating rabbits? (Yes, you can get tularemia.)

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Finding Diamonds

March 3, 2003

Measuring the earth's gravity from an airplane can pinpoint diamond mines.

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Nature’s Remedies

February 28, 2003

Drugs from sea sponges, wound-healing oxygen and a sunscreen made from white tea extract

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Eco-Friendly Rocket Fuel

February 27, 2003

An environmentally nontoxic rocket fuel made from candle wax (paraffin).

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Genes and Geography

February 26, 2003

A person's ancestry can be tracked by looking at their DNA

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