The Questions We Never Answered in 2007

http://www.slate.com/id/2179944/

• I've been looking for information on how the word "dick" became an insult, especially since people still go by the name Dick. Why would anyone choose that name, when it has other meanings?!?!

• Why do male ice skaters have routines that are so feminine in execution? After all these years, there should be some kind of movements on ice that would be more masculine-looking। The gymnastics shows have them.

• Could you play sports in space, if you had a spacesuit?

• Can a baby get drunk off of nonalcoholic beer?

Straight No Chaser - 12 Days

Land grab case in Boulder incites anger and protests

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/21/land-grab-case-in-bo.html

Metal Storm reaches Navy test range

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9819143-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

The ultimate list of stupid names

http://www.dareland.com/stupidnames.htm

Pizza man accused of making fake dough

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_ODD_Counterfeit_Dough.html?source=mypi

Rousing the Ghosts Of Appalachia

In Deserted Md. and W.Va. Towns of Coal-Mining's Past, Historians Work to Save What's Left: Their Memory

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202172.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

Laundered Money

http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/reflections.php?content=blogs_alpha/zlaundered_money.html

Earliest Gunshot victim in the America's Discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6221280.stm

Turning quantum physics into children's stories

Translating complex quantum physics theories into simple stories for youngsters is all in a day's work for Dr Yvette Hancock from the School of Physics and Materials Engineering at Monash University.

Dr Hancock began writing children's books on quantum physics theories last year after completing her thesis.

She has already completed one children's story featuring Ellie the Electron and there are many more in the pipeline.

"I had a burst of inspiration, and two hours later my thesis had been transformed into a story for kids," she says.

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/newsline/story/112