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I am not making this up.

Didn’t realize that Muhammad Ali had an ancestral home in Ireland, did you?

Neither did I.

I do notice that Muhammad Ali would appear to pass the brown paper bag test, though.

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Add a 50-cal mount and I’m there.

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Well, maybe — you still need to put it on a level surface. But my Y chromasome likes it.

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I’d buy one.

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Women’s difficulty in reading maps and men’s uselessness in finding things under their noses could be explained by new research, scientists claim.

For, lo, what would we do without scientists?

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Of course, nothing beats just staying where the hell you already are.

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But are vitamins worth it? In the past few years, several high-quality studies have failed to show that extra vitamins, at least in pill form, help prevent chronic disease or prolong life.

“I’m puzzled why the public in general ignores the results of well-done trials,” said Dr. Eric Klein, national study coordinator for the prostate cancer trial and chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. “The public’s belief in the benefits of vitamins and nutrients is not supported by the available scientific data.”

Mind, it’s in the New York Times, so you would need to check it through a second source.

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I am not making this up.

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Sam Colt would be proud.

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Guess how many are in Texas?

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Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact.

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I like the gold-plated assault rifles. And the white tiger, of course.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, reviews the new book Plastic Fantastic.

“Plastic Fantastic,” Eugenie Samuel Reich’s readable account of a fairly recent ­science fraud, is valuable chiefly as a close look at the “kitchen” where scientific results are assembled and validated—and whence occasionally comes forth ­something that should not have seen the light of day.

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I don’t see any torpedo tubes….

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I used to know that, but it must have slipped my mind.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Apparently the future speaks Japanese.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Darwin Award nominees.

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The monetary value of those little moments previously considered priceless have just been calculated in a new book.

Slate has the good news.

Well, that’s a relief.

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Well, I think it looks rather cool.

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No doubt payback for the “eat more chikin” campaign.

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Imagine, if you will, a 3D picture of Helen Thomas.

Surely one can find a better use for $600?

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Dr Tom Shenton, a reader in engineering at Liverpool University who is leading the project, said: “We are running engines everyday in our laboratory with this system now and our ultimate objective is have it inside cars driven by consumers.

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How appropriate.

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Soon to be a Peter Jackson movie?

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

Tim Matheson and Tom Selleck both tested for Indiana Jones; Karen Allen actually screentested with Tim Matheson. Tom Selleck did very well and was the frontrunner, but had to bow out due to Magnum P.I. Harrison Ford was brought up early in the casting discussion, but George Lucas wanted to avoid casting him since he had already become so closely associated with Star Wars.

Selleck would have been great.

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Just in case your World of Warcraft account is somehow unavailable.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Soon to be the perfect Democrat party candidate. All white, of course.

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From Megan McArdle, who is finally getting off the dime and marrying Peter Suderman.

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“We plan to use the sequence to establish a breeding programme for bluefin tuna as most aquaculture farmers presently use wild juveniles,” he said. “We want to establish a complete aquaculture system that will produce fish that have good strength, are resistant to disease, grow quickly and taste delicious.”

Somehow, I don’t think his name will be Charlie.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Yeah, the article is about Southern Baptists, but the map is fascinating. Southern Baptists are second only to Roman Catholics — and not far behind them, either — in the number of counties in which they are the largest religious group.

Mainline church leaders may struggle to grasp this, but the most ethnically diverse churches in America are found in these three bodies — the Roman Catholic Church, the Assemblies of God and, yes, the Southern Baptist Convention.

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The document, which is in perfect condition, is believed to be one of only 200 ever printed and was found among files at the National Archives in Kew in Richmond, Surrey.

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I’m thinking Bigmouth Billy Bass here.

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Let the machine do the work, that’s what I always say.

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The designer sweet potato, grown for its anti-cancer purple pigment, is also said to contain anti-ageing and antioxidant chemicals.