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Readings — From the December 2009 issue
Readings — From the September 1987 issue
Wraparound — From the September 1974 issue
Article — From the November 1957 issue
Article — From the January 1955 issue
What to expect, and what you won’t find, in the hot countries
Article — From the November 1953 issue
Article — From the November 1944 issue
Article — From the April 1940 issue
Article — From the October 1936 issue
Article — From the April 1934 issue
Article — From the October 1933 issue
Article — From the January 1933 issue
Article — From the August 1929 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.
