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Story of Vaseline

Robert Peary took it to the North Pole. There’s a song in its honor. It makes smiles sparkle. It’s used to coat the f...

Written by Jason Bellows • 20 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Read a Banned Book

A woman named Clare Booth Luce said, “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should...

Written by Jason Bellows • 12 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Better Watch Out for Your Shadow There, Fella

Groundhog’s Day is a silly, sad excuse for a holiday. I don’t even get the day off work unless I fake illness. The pi...

Written by Jason Bellows • 02 Feb 2006 • Read →

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The Great Sheep Escape

In the summer of 2004 sheep in the UK’s Yorkshire rallied against their keepers. Sheep are not as imbecilic as gene...

Written by Jason Bellows • 30 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Unintentional, Unwitting Heroine

Most cells in the human body can only multiply a certain number of times, then they inevitably die. This limit is nam...

Written by Jason Bellows • 20 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Smoke Detectors and a Radioactive Boyscout

David Hahn was an Eagle Scout who had a merit badge in atomic energy; as everyone should know, that is ample educatio...

Written by Jason Bellows • 19 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Variety is the Spice of Life… If Only It Was That Simple

It's a big world, and there all types of tastes in it. I guess the variety makes for an interesting world, but somet...

Written by Jason Bellows • 12 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Diffraction of Light and Shadows on the Moon

The sky is blue, and everyone knows why (There is a physical phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering that causes light...

Written by Jason Bellows • 06 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Bad Nuts

Like many people, I am haunted by a can of "mixed nuts" that some neighbor or distant relation or random bloke has co...

Written by Jason Bellows • 05 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Modern Peru an Ancient UFO Port?

In the nation of Peru there are annually a high number of UFO sightings reported, but like most UFO sightings, there...

Written by Jason Bellows • 31 Dec 2005 • Read →

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