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Does an Executive Order keep JFK murder evidence unavailable until 2039, 2038 or 2017?
Back in 1968, Jim Garrison (New Orleans District Attorney) was interviewed by Johnny Carson about the JFK assassination. During this interview, Jim Garrison mentioned an Executive Order that keeps JFK murder evidence unavailable until a distant…
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How bitter is Robert Lustig's "Bitter Truth" about sugar?
A couple of months ago I watched the talk "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig on YouTube. The overall tone of the talk raised a couple of red flags; it sounded a little too much like conspiracy mongering for my taste, but…
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Did the CIA sell drugs in the US?
According to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Gary Webb in his controversial article series The Dark Alliance
For the better part of a decade, a San
Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons
of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods
street gangs of…
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Could an adult mind automatically adjust if a person was to wear glasses that inverted/flipped all vision?
It is known that the human eye anatomy makes it so that all images we see with our eyes are flipped upside down.
Without noticing it, at an early age, the brain is adjusted to this. What I mean is that we at an adult stage don't walk around troubled…
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Do the Left Brain and Right Brain have different functions?
I've heard that the left brain controls the logical aspects of the thought and right brain controls the creative. Is there any truth to such claims?
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Is using the A/C in a car less fuel efficient than having the windows down?
This is an age old debate that i have with a coterie of friends; without backing up with much scientific fact. It's all recently been based on arguments of experience.
Is it possible that utilizing the air conditioning in the car has a greater…
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Can standing in front of a microwave oven give you cancer?
I was heating up some lunch in the microwave oven at work a few weeks ago, and peered into the window to see if my soup was bubbling yet. At that point a coworker walked into the lunch room and exclaimed "Get your head away from the microwave,…
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Was this 'carbon fibre' bicycle rim destroyed by a parrot?
This photograph was circulating on social media on 20th November 2021
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It was widely described as a carbon wheel that had been destroyed by a parrot. e.g.
Cycling Tips (Archived link, since the article has now been…
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Did the 2nd Amendment limit the purchase of cannons from the day it was passed?
Joe Biden says in a BBC snippet that
the Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people that could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn't buy a cannon.
Is that really so? Did the 2nd Amendment…
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Will there be millions of cicadas per acre when Brood X emerges this year?
A Time article about the upcoming emergence of Brood X cicadas in the U.S. has the following quote from a biologist:
“It’s not something you can ignore,” says John Cooley, a biologist at the University of Connecticut. “When they come out it’ll be…
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Do Afghans keep track of their birthdays?
According to this article (not in English) (not paywalled version) (Google Translate translation) the man in the article has a problem with his visa because he used a fictitious birthdate (as advised by the authorities) when arriving at the border…
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Was it ever cheaper to starve slaves and replace them than to provide them with food?
In a recent opinion piece in the Guardian, historian David Olusoga makes this shocking claim about slavery in the 17th Century British Empire:
The system [Hans Sloane] witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death.…
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Does Lincoln County, Oregon require only white people to wear masks?
According to the New York Post:
Oregon county issues face mask order that exempts non-white people
Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public
Oregon county issues face mask…
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Is public transport less fuel-efficient than cars?
Someone who is opposed towards energy saving and climate change (I did not realise they existed until I met him) has told me that public transport (buses, trains and so on) are less efficient than individual cars.
I found it difficult to believe. A…
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Does water swirl the opposite way on the other hemisphere?
I have heard this one several times but was never given a convincing explanation.
Is this a real phenomenon? (Bonus points for a good physical description of the behavior or reasons it couldn't occur.)
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