POSTED // Mar 12,2012 - This is an old one, and I’m surprised it didn’t turn up when I did a search on your site. It has to do with boiling frogs. Goes something like this: If you tossed a frog into already-boiling water, it would leap out.

POSTED // Mar 7,2012 - As we've seen, however, neither the drug industry nor consumers have much incentive to demand change.

POSTED // Feb 27,2012 - Why is prostitution called “the oldest profession”? Under both of the definitions of profession I know, there’s no chance prostitution could be the oldest,

POSTED // Feb 20,2012 - Can colorblind persons pick out camouflage from background foliage more easily?

POSTED // Feb 13,2012 - A friend insists a team of scientists is dedicated to cloning a woolly mammoth. I’d love to believe this is true, and if it is, what are the plans for these critters? Zoos? Releasing them into the wild? Farming?

POSTED // Jan 30,2012 - I don't claim video games have been 100 percent beneficial. The Columbine massacre shooters were reportedly addicted to video games.

POSTED // Jan 21,2012 - Is there a difference between red (Republican heartland conservative) states and blue (Democratic coastal liberal) states in terms of IQ?

POSTED // Jan 16,2012 - In The Empire Strikes Back, there’s a scene where Han Solo must cut open his tauntaun and climb inside the steaming corpse with Luke.

POSTED // Jan 2,2012 - I’ve been reading about the coelacanth, the fish thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago that turned up in an Indonesian fish market.

POSTED // Dec 26,2011 - As I was decorating my Christmas tree this year, I began to wonder if I was putting myself at risk from insects. I don’t like spiders much, and it would be even worse to have a Lyme-diseased tick bite me. Are Christmas trees fumigated, or are we bringing termites, etc., into our homes every holiday season? —Doug in L.A.