POSTED // Nov 12,2012 - What’s the current thinking on peak oil? Your column six years ago led me to think the petroleum tap was running dry and we’d soon be trading in our cars for bikes and roller skates.

POSTED // Nov 5,2012 - All the women I know take it as gospel that females are better multitaskers, implying they get more done than men. In my experience working with women, they’re at best only equally productive as the guys.

POSTED // Oct 29,2012 - I need to know: Are vampires susceptible to blood-borne diseases? Especially STDs such as AIDS or herpes? I’m considering a transition in lifestyle and have narrowed it down to vampire or pirate. So will my poison be blood or rum? —Daniel Lancaster

POSTED // Oct 22,2012 - My wonderful father, born in 1939, insists high gas prices are the only reason the economy is in the tank (no pun intended). He constantly tells me Richard Nixon was able to stave off economic hardship for our country because he froze gas prices during his presidency,

POSTED // Oct 15,2012 - The difference between nominal and true size was known as "scant" allowance.

POSTED // Oct 9,2012 - The nuns in Catholic school taught us there was such a thing as sanctuary—the police cannot arrest a suspect in a church. Does this concept have a basis in law, or is it just a social custom that can be discarded on a whim?

POSTED // Sep 24,2012 - I am five, and have been wondering about this for almost half my life now: How many ice cubes would it take to put out the sun? My mum found your website and thought you must know the answer, since you know everything. —Rei Mordue

POSTED // Sep 17,2012 - The science fiction movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman—that could never happen, right? Her bones would cave in under the weight of all that meat.

POSTED // Sep 10,2012 - Space companies looking to mine asteroids are thinking of bringing them into orbit for easier access. Wouldn’t several of these asteroids eventually pull on the planet so much they would change the orbit of the earth

POSTED // Sep 1,2012 - No significant difference between the lifespans of intact and neutered animals of either sex