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2002 Columns

Pub Date Headline
04-Jan-2002 What mountain is depicted in the Paramount logo? Why do women laugh hysterically?
11-Jan-2002 What's up with the Indian rope trick and the bed of nails?
18-Jan-2002 What gives with Fifth Third Bank?
25-Jan-2002 Did New York once have a transvestite governor?
01-Feb-2002 Who invented paradise?
08-Feb-2002 Can water be too pure? Is too much water bad for you?
15-Feb-2002 Does my cell phone company keep track of me wherever I go?
22-Feb-2002 Do Egyptians burn mummies as fuel?
01-Mar-2002 Update: What are your chances of getting HIV?
08-Mar-2002 Could a member of an extraterrestrial species be U.S. president?
15-Mar-2002 Who was the worst Catholic saint?
22-Mar-2002 Were 40% of Native American women forcibly sterilized in the 1970s?
29-Mar-2002 Is a pregnant goldfish called a twit?
05-Apr-2002 What's up with those Indian widows who commit suttee?
12-Apr-2002 Has 1 in 8 people had sex with an animal?
19-Apr-2002 Do plants excrete?
26-Apr-2002 Will smoking banana peels get you high?
03-May-2002 Do crocodiles shed tears? (revisited)
10-May-2002 Is Paul Bunyan a fraud?
17-May-2002 What's the big deal about offshore banks?
24-May-2002 Would I find "Vaudeville" on a map?
31-May-2002 Were WWII scrap drives just a ploy to boost morale?
07-June-2002 Why are women always cold?
14-June-2002 Was Joseph Stalin once a seminarian?
21-June-2002 Did Carlos Castaneda hallucinate that stuff in the Don Juan books or make it up?
28-June-2002 Did Sigmund Freud use cocaine on his patients?
05-July-2002 How many kids are found as a result of missing-child posters?
12-July-2002 Is the world more dangerous now than when we were kids?
19-July-2002 Are 150 people killed each year by falling coconuts?
26-July-2002 How come Howard Hughes's "Spruce Goose" flew only once?
02-Aug-2002 Can a microwave oven cause a pacemaker to malfunction?
09-Aug-2002 Is it possible to get "bruised ovaries" during sex?
16-Aug-2002 Do CDs have a life expectancy of 10 years?
23-Aug-2002 Are women paid less than men for the same work?
30-Aug-2002 After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows?
06-Sep-2002 What's the story on trepanation?
13-Sep-2002 Is there a bush that spontaneously bursts into flame to reproduce?
20-Sep-2002 Why do women experience menopause?
27-Sep-2002 How can a Nazi jerk like Martin Heidegger be considered the most influential philosopher of the 20th century?
04-Oct-2002 Do Chinese lack sweat glands in their armpits? Why does spicy food make you sweat?
11-Oct-2002 Is "toxic mold" the next environmental threat?
18-Oct-2002 Was Andrew Jackson one of the world's most prolific mass murderers?
25-Oct-2002 What's in female ejaculate?
01-Nov-2002 Were there really vomitoriums in ancient Rome?
08-Nov-2002 Can twins be born a month or two apart?
15-Nov-2002 Where do chain restaurants get their antiques?
22-Nov-2002 What exactly is fire?
29-Nov-2002 Does the center high-mounted stop lamp reduce rear-end collisions? What are growing pains?
06-Dec-2002 Was J. Edgar Hoover a cross-dresser?
13-Dec-2002 Was Rachel Carson a fraud and is DDT actually safe for humans?
20-Dec-2002 Does menstrual synchrony really exist?
27-Dec-2002 "Elvis has left the building." Who said it first?

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