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Could you be frozen solid, then broken into a million pieces?

02.09.10 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Dude gets splashed with liquid helium, or blasted with cryogas, or breathed on by a white dragon, an...

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Could you be frozen solid, then broken into a million pieces?

02.09.10 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Dude gets splashed with liquid helium, or blasted with cryogas, or breathed on by a white dragon, an...

Followup: Did Cecil exaggerate the decline of the world fish supply?

01.26.10 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I am writing to bring to your attention several errors contained in the recent edition of the Straig...

Do fire departments actually rescue cats from trees?

01.05.10 | BY CECIL ADAMS

Is it necessary for the fire department to rescue a cat that's stuck in a tree? I mean, c'mo...

What's up with compostable plastics?

12.29.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

The restaurant around the corner from where I work has started using corn-based "compostable&qu...

What's better, farm-raised salmon or wild? Are upscale restaurants serving ugly fish?

12.22.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

On the one hand, I want to eat farm-raised salmon because wild salmon is being depleted by overfishi...

Can high blood pressure be reduced through bloodletting? Plus: Did Kane Kramer invent the iPod in 1979?

12.15.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I'm fascinated with the age-old practice of bloodletting as a cure for various ailments. Thanks...

Did George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grow marijuana?

12.08.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I have heard Thomas Jefferson traded marijuana blends with George Washington and the other founding...

What would happen if you were swallowed by a black hole (revisited)?

11.24.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

I just read your 1981 column on what would happen if the earth were swallowed by a black hole. I'...

How can racing yachts sail faster than the wind?

11.17.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

How can those America's Cup yachts sail faster than the wind? Here's what the San Francisco...

How did the states establish long straight borders before GPS?

11.10.09 | BY CECIL ADAMS

How is it that, in places without natural features such as a river or mountain range to mark a borde...

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