POSTED // May 12,2010 - We recently learned a rapist was loose in our neighborhood when my roommate got an e-mail from her school that included a link to a police sketch of the subject ...

POSTED // May 5,2010 - Just for laughs, we decided to make our on-hold music at work a compilation of staff picks, including a 17-minute version of “In-A- Gadda-Da-Vida.”

POSTED // Apr 28,2010 - What’s the effectiveness of a polygraph? Police departments still use them, and the feds still screen applicants using polygraphs, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled them invalid.

POSTED // Apr 21,2010 - Is it true our GPS satellites are deteriorating and there’s no good fix?

POSTED // Apr 14,2010 - I ran across your 1984 Straight Dope column about whether water freezes or boils in outer space. (You said it boils, then freezes.)

POSTED // Apr 7,2010 - A friend recently told me about something called the Bohemian Grove, where supposedly the leaders of our country meet annually to hold bizarre satanic rituals including ...

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - I’ve recently read claims that world reserves of phosphates, a mined resource essential in the production of agricultural fertilizer, are rapidly running out.

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - I’ve witnessed many incidents of dogs with white owners barking, growling, or otherwise being extremely aggressive toward African- Americans ...

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - What's the Straight Dope on radiation hormesis? From what I understand, this hypothesis rejects the current wisdom that if a lot of radiation is very bad, a little bit of radiation is at least somewhat bad...

POSTED // Mar 10,2010 - I’ve heard coconut juice is almost identical to human blood plasma, and has been used as a plasma substitute during wartime.