$20,000 for a Meteorite In Portland, Maine, the a police officer’s dashcam captured video of a meteorite streaking across the sky. A museum that plans to open next year has now offered a reward of $20,000 for anyone who can find and deliver to the museum a significant part of the meteorite. For today’s question:…
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Friday Poll: A New (Temporary) Name for Budweiser?
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Friday Poll: Wolf in an Oklahoma Town
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Friday Poll: A Capsule on Mars This Decade
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A Capsule on Mars This Decade?This week, the private space company SpaceX announced that they had plans to land an unmanned capsule on Mars as early as 2018. To do so would be a huge accomplishment, far more difficult that efforts to land probes on the red planet. Let’s say, rather than 2018, SpaceX had…
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Friday Poll: Snake from the Ceiling
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Snake from the Ceiling In Mississippi, an elementary school class watched in surpise as a snake fell from the ceiling at Walls Elementary School. See, Snake Falls from Ceiling During Class @ NBC News. Today’s question asks whether this snake should be considered an unwanted pest or an opportunity for observation.
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Friday Poll: Flight Attendant’s Exit Strategy
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A Houston television station reports that a United Airlines flight attendant used an evacuation slide to leave a packed airplane, despite the absence of any emergency: According to an official with United Airlines, the incident happened around noon after Flight 1246 landed in Houston after traveling from Sacramento. Julia Price deployed an evacuation slide when the aircraft…
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Friday Poll: A Sea Monster in the Thames?
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A Sea Monster in the Thames? There are periodic claims about a monster in Loch Ness, but the British press is now asking about a sea monster in the Thames, supposedly sighted from someone riding a cable car. The video has now been viewed over two million times, showing that there’s a high, ongoing interest…
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Friday Poll: The Unexpected Kinkajou
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An elderly woman in Florida awoke recently to find a kinkajou, apparently escaped from someone else’s house as they’re not native to Florida, sleeping on her chest. Woman and kinkajou are now fine, although the woman was at first frightened by the encounter. What would you think of this – unpleasant encounter or great story…
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Friday Poll: Favorite Easter Candy 2016
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Friday Poll: A Fake Elderly Resident
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A Fake Elderly Resident In Rhode Island, a local senior affairs director, Sue Stenhouse, persuaded a middle-aged, male van driver to dress as an elderly woman during an event highlighting services for senior citizens. The story is now viral, and the senior affairs director is now out of her job. (Ms. Stenhouse was also accused of using…
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Friday Poll: A Beer Spa?
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Friday Poll: A 2016 Supreme Court Nominee?
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A 2016 Supreme Court Nominee & Vote? Today’s poll is a simple one – should Pres. Obama nominate, and should the U.S. Senate vote this year, on a nominee to replace the late Justice Scalia? (The nominee might not win confirmation; this question is simply whether there should be a nominee and a vote in…