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2003 Columns

Pub Date Headline
03-Jan-2003 Nature, fossil fuels, and global warming: How many trees should I plant to balance my yearly CO2 output?
10-Jan-2003 What the heck is "leetspeek?"
17-Jan-2003 Were there really "Lost Cosmonauts" stranded in space?
24-Jan-2003 Is it true half of all marriages end in divorce?
31-Jan-2003 How do you become a United Nations weapons inspector?
07-Feb-2003 Was Chuck Barris a hit man for the CIA?
14-Feb-2003 Was President Bush's great-grandfather a Nazi?
21-Feb-2003 Who is Nielsen and how does he count who watches tv?
28-Feb-2003 What was "The Tungus Event?"
07-Mar-2003 Why do we travel in space?
14-Mar-2003 Can I donate blood to lose weight?
21-Mar-2003 Is cow's milk "the worst beverage on earth?"
28-Mar-2003 Are gorillas using sign language really communicating with humans?
04-Apr-2003 What is the Holy Grail?
11-Apr-2003 Did George W. Bush go AWOL during his time in the National Guard?
18-Apr-2003 Is handwriting analysis legit science?
25-Apr-2003 What's the story behind Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven?"
02-May-2003 Was Martin Luther King Jr. a plagiarist?
09-May-2003 Urinal 101: Aim for the back wall or the water?
16-May-2003 How does marijuana cause "the munchies?"
23-May-2003 "Own-race bias" revisited: Do other races really look more alike?
30-May-2003 What is "passive-aggressive?"
06-Jun-2003 Why is so much of the Islamic world backward and ignorant?
13-Jun-2003 Are peanut allergies for real?
20-Jun-2003 Man Wrecks Planet: Are the popularly published environmental statistics accurate?
27-Jun-2003 During WWII, did a Soviet general and his men desert to the Nazis?
04-Jul-2003 How did the phrase "built like a brick shithouse" get to be a compliment? Are today's PCs more powerful than the legendary supercomputers of the 1970s?
11-Jul-2003 An infinite question:  Why doesn't  .999~ = 1?
18-Jul-2003 Has anyone really gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel?
25-Jul-2003 Medium and Message Revisited: Was Marshall McLuhan a visionary?
01-Aug-2003 Did John Dillinger really die outside the Biograph Theater?
08-Aug-2003 Was Anne Frank the only author of her famous diary?
15-Aug-2003 Whatever became of B. F. Skinner?
22-Aug-2003 What is nymphomania?
29-Aug-2003 If nuclear fallout lasts thousands of years, how did Hiroshima and Nagasaki recover so quickly?
05-Sep-2003 What is the "designated hitter" rule in baseball?
12-Sep-2003 Was Sigmund Freud a quack?
19-Sep-2003 How can a corporation be legally considered a person?
26-Sep-2003 In whodunits, it's "the butler did it." Who did it first?
03-Oct-2003 Does multiple personality disorder really exist?
10-Oct-2003 Can use of Ecstacy cause fatal fever? What "Indignities" are grounds for divorce?
17-Oct-2003 Saints and Popes revisited: Were Pius XI and Pius XII anti-Semitic?
24-Oct-2003 Handwriting Analyis Revisited: Are elements of personality revealed through handwriting?
31-Oct-2003 Do curveballs really curve?
07-Nov-2003 Did John F. Kennedy really write "Profiles in Courage?"
14-Nov-2003 Did "Potemkin villages" really exist?
21-Nov-2003 Are "cage free" chickens really better?
28-Nov-2003 What's the true story on ethanol?
05-Dec-2003 Are camp lanterns radioactive?
12-Dec-2003 What's the story on Leo Strauss?
19-Dec-2003 Are we living in a new "Gilded Age" of income inequality?
26-Dec-2003 In what language do deaf people think?

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