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After hours — From the October 1952 issue
Article — From the May 1951 issue
Personal and otherwise — From the May 1951 issue
Article — From the October 1950 issue
Article — From the October 1950 issue
Article — From the October 1950 issue
Notice — From the October 1950 issue
illustration — From the October 1950 issue
After hours — From the September 1950 issue
Article — From the June 1892 issue
Article — From the January 1892 issue
Editor's easy chair — From the 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.
