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13 more things that don't make sense

By Michael Brooks

2 September 2009

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Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysteries that still confound us. Here are thirteen of the most perplexing. Cracking any one of them could yield profound truths, says Michael Brooks

1. Axis of evil

2. Dark flow

3. Eocene hothouse

4. Fly-by anomalies

5. Hybrid life

6. Morgellons disease

7. The Bloop

8. Antimatter mystery

9. The lithium problem

10. MAGIC results

11. The elusive monopole

12. Noise from the edge of the universe

13. Voodoo death

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