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Article — From the October 1979 issue
Article — From the January 1977 issue
Wraparound — From the September 1974 issue
Wraparound — From the September 1974 issue
Wraparound — From the September 1974 issue
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One man's meat — From the June 1940 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1921 issue
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Editor's drawer — From the February 1856 issue
Editor's drawer — From the April 1855 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.
