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Article — From the April 1979 issue
Article — From the April 1979 issue
Books — From the August 1977 issue
Article — From the July 1976 issue
Article — From the July 1976 issue
Commentary — From the October 1975 issue
Books — From the July 1975 issue
Wraparound — From the September 1973 issue
Article — From the March 1972 issue
illustration — From the February 1966 issue
Article — From the April 1964 issue
Article — From the June 1963 issue
Article — From the April 1963 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
