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FYI: Do Zombies Experience Consciousness?
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FYI: Do Zombies Experience Consciousness?

By Shaunacy Ferro

FYI: What Causes Muscle Twitches?
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FYI: What Causes Muscle Twitches?

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: What Gives Ravens Quarterback Joe Flacco His Mutant-Like Arm?
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FYI: What Gives Ravens Quarterback Joe Flacco His Mutant-Like Arm?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: What Is Deer Antler Spray, And Why Would A Football Player Use It?
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FYI: What Is Deer Antler Spray, And Why Would A Football Player Use It?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Do Men Really Fall Apart When A Female Soldier Gets Killed?
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FYI: Do Men Really Fall Apart When A Female Soldier Gets Killed?

By Shaunacy Ferro

How do you make the perfect snowball?
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How do you make the perfect snowball?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Why Would Someone Create A Fake Internet Girlfriend?
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FYI: Why Would Someone Create A Fake Internet Girlfriend?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Is There A Winter Flu Season?
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FYI: Why Is There A Winter Flu Season?

By Emily Elert

FYI: Could You Survive A Flight Strapped To The Wing Of A Plane?
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FYI: Could You Survive A Flight Strapped To The Wing Of A Plane?

By Colin Lecher

Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?
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Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?

By Jonathan M. Katz

FYI: Why Do We Crave Greasy Food When We’re Hung Over?
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FYI: Why Do We Crave Greasy Food When We’re Hung Over?

By Melody Chandler

FYI: What Causes Motion Sickness, And How Do You Cure It?
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FYI: What Causes Motion Sickness, And How Do You Cure It?

By Brooke Workneh

FYI: What Kind Of Dinosaur Meat Would Taste Best?
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FYI: What Kind Of Dinosaur Meat Would Taste Best?

By Erin Berger

FYI: Why Don’t Spiders Get Trapped In Their Own Webs?
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FYI: Why Don’t Spiders Get Trapped In Their Own Webs?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: How Long Would It Take Santa To Deliver Presents To Every Kid On Earth?
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FYI: How Long Would It Take Santa To Deliver Presents To Every Kid On Earth?

Does Edible Deodorant Work?
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Does Edible Deodorant Work?

By Martha Harbison

FYI: What Do Forensic Chemists Do, And Why Would They Cheat?
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FYI: What Do Forensic Chemists Do, And Why Would They Cheat?

By Krislyn Placide

FYI: What Makes Hair Curly?
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FYI: What Makes Hair Curly?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Can Viagra Make You A Better Athlete?
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FYI: Can Viagra Make You A Better Athlete?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Are Mean People So Hot?
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FYI: Why Are Mean People So Hot?

By Julie Beck

FYI: Can You Make An Authentic Twinkie At Home?
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FYI: Can You Make An Authentic Twinkie At Home?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: What’s The Most Porous Material On Earth?
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FYI: What’s The Most Porous Material On Earth?

By Krislyn Placide

FYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?
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FYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?

By Emily Elert

FYI: What Material Is Water Most Afraid Of?
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FYI: What Material Is Water Most Afraid Of?

By Krislyn Placide

FYI: Can Japan’s Latest Soft Drink Really Help You Lose Weight?
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FYI: Can Japan’s Latest Soft Drink Really Help You Lose Weight?

By Stephanie Warren

FYI: What’s The Softest Material On Earth?
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FYI: What’s The Softest Material On Earth?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
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FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: How much caffeine would it take to kill you?
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FYI: How much caffeine would it take to kill you?

By Sam Eifling

FYI: How Do Places On Mars Get Their Names?
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FYI: How Do Places On Mars Get Their Names?

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What Kind Of Gas Mileage Can You Get From A Naval Warship?
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FYI: What Kind Of Gas Mileage Can You Get From A Naval Warship?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It’s Melted?
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FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It’s Melted?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong’s Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?
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FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong’s Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: What Causes Near-Death Experiences?
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FYI: What Causes Near-Death Experiences?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?
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FYI: Is It Legal To 3-D Print A Handgun?

By Clay Dillow

FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?
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FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?
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FYI: Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications
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FYI: How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
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FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?

By Colin Lecher

Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
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Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?

By Rob Trump

FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?
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FYI: Will Athletes Ever Stop Breaking Records?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?
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FYI: Did Prehistoric Birds Evolve Flight By Falling Out of Trees?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?
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FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Could Drugs Like “Bath Salts” Be Causing An Outbreak of Cannibalism?
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FYI: Could Drugs Like “Bath Salts” Be Causing An Outbreak of Cannibalism?

By Colin Lecher

FYI: How Do Firefighters Tackle a Voracious, Out-of-Control Fire?
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FYI: How Do Firefighters Tackle a Voracious, Out-of-Control Fire?

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: Why Does Scotch Smell Like Band-Aids?
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FYI: Why Does Scotch Smell Like Band-Aids?

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: What Is Espresso?
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FYI: What Is Espresso?

By Dan Nosowitz

FYI: Can Drinking Moonshine Really Make Me Go Blind?
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FYI: Can Drinking Moonshine Really Make Me Go Blind?

By Clay Dillow

FYI: Can a Bladder Actually Burst?
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FYI: Can a Bladder Actually Burst?

By Susan Du

Classic FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
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Classic FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?

By Ryan Bradley

FYI: Where Is The Center of the Universe?
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FYI: Where Is The Center of the Universe?

By Rose Pastore

FYI: Why Does Some Food Taste Bad To Some People And Good To Others?
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FYI: Why Does Some Food Taste Bad To Some People And Good To Others?

By Emily Elert

FYI: Why Do Kids Hate Brussels Sprouts?
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FYI: Why Do Kids Hate Brussels Sprouts?

By Ryan Bradley

FYI: Do Competitive Eaters Have Unusual Stomachs?
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FYI: Do Competitive Eaters Have Unusual Stomachs?

By Bette Marston

FYI: What Is the Oldest Toy in the World?
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FYI: What Is the Oldest Toy in the World?

By Amber Williams

FYI: Do Animals Dream?
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FYI: Do Animals Dream?

By Kaitlin Miller

FYI: What’s the Point of Nose Hair?
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FYI: What’s the Point of Nose Hair?

By Amber Williams

FYI: Why Do Old Married Couples Look Alike?
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FYI: Why Do Old Married Couples Look Alike?

By Madhumita Venkataramanan

FYI: Why Do We Get Goosebumps and Chills When We’re Scared?
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FYI: Why Do We Get Goosebumps and Chills When We’re Scared?

By Sarah Fecht

FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?
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FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?

By Julie Beck

FYI: What Is The Most Dangerous Piece Of Laboratory Equipment?
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FYI: What Is The Most Dangerous Piece Of Laboratory Equipment?

By Joseph A. Bernstein

FYI: What is the Hottest Pepper in the World?
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FYI: What is the Hottest Pepper in the World?

By Paul Adams

FYI: Can We Make Mars Habitable By Pumping the Atmosphere Full of Oxygen?
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FYI: Can We Make Mars Habitable By Pumping the Atmosphere Full of Oxygen?

By Caitlin Kearney

FYI: Could A Layperson Land A Jumbo Jet?
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FYI: Could A Layperson Land A Jumbo Jet?

By Doug Cantor

FYI: How Does Nuclear Radiation Do Its Damage?
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FYI: How Does Nuclear Radiation Do Its Damage?

By Molika Ashford