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The Straight Dope

Sniff the Rain

What's that smell in the air?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Nov 21,2011 - What's that smell in the air right before it rains?

The Straight Dope

Fish of Death

How deadly is a halibut?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Nov 14,2011 - As sea creatures go, you don’t think of halibut as being all that dangerous.

The Straight Dope

In the Beginning

Does God exist?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Nov 7,2011 - Have you ever addressed the question of God? It would seem like a fairly important question in the fight against ignorance, yet I couldn’t find anything like “Does God exist?” in the archives.

The Straight Dope

Funky Dead

Can zombies smell themselves?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Nov 1,2011 - Zombies have so many disturbing traits, but my question involves only two...

The Straight Dope

The Typo Police

Dyslexic bad speller or ordinary dope?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Oct 24,2011 - I get SO ANNOYED when people are constantly picking out my typos and making it seem like I’m an idiot for making them.

The Straight Dope

Square Peg

Growing square trees?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Oct 17,2011 - I watched a local TV news segment about how the University of British Columbia’s forestry department had created a system for injecting hormones into growing trees to produce a “square tree.”

The Straight Dope

Spray Plan

Is there gold in the sky?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Oct 11,2011 - Aluminum oxide is being sprayed into the air to deflect the sun's energy and help prevent global warming

The Straight Dope

Big Game

Bring down a T. rex with a gun?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Oct 3,2011 - Would I be able to take down a fully grown T. rex armed only with my Beretta 92FS 9mm pistol and a full clip? What about with a 12-gauge shotgun?

The Straight Dope

Hollow Planet

Dig a hole, slow the days?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Sep 26,2011 - I’m taking a physics course, and we discussed how objects with hollow cores revolve slower. So I was wondering: Exactly how much dirt would I have to dig out of the ground and...

The Straight Dope

Got Radiation?

How contaminated is milk?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Sep 20,2011 - We keep hearing in the news about radiation levels in milk and whether they're high enough to be a concern.
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