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The Straight Dope

Flying Colors

Is there an advantage to being colorblind?

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

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Mammoth Feat

Cloning: But then what?

By Cecil Adams
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?

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Game Brain

Influence of video games on the mind?

By Cecil Adams
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.

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State Smarts

A difference between red & blue?

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

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Belly of the Beast

Refuge in a corpse?

By Cecil Adams
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.

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Medium Rare

Endangered species, good eatin'?

By Cecil Adams
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.

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Silent Blight

Xmas trees' invisible bugs

By Cecil Adams
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.

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Snake Oil

Can you really 'suck out the poison'?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Dec 19,2011 - There's a common belief that "sucking the poison out" is an effective snakebite remedy.

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Smurfberries

Where's the blue food?

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Dec 12,2011 - The fact remains that we have few blue foods, in contrast to numerous foods of other common colors. Why?

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You There, God?

Reader calls out Cecil's 'quasi-theistic horseshit'

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Dec 5,2011 - Know what I think about your answer [to the question of whether there’s a God]? (I mean, besides the fact that it was a load of soft-pedaling quasi-theistic horseshit?)
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