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Feedback: This gadget promises air from your own private tree

18 October 2017

But something smells fishy about the pine scented vape stick. Plus: How one MP made Manchester's air pollution disappear, time travelling trains, and more


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Feedback: The fruitloopy world of David "Avocado" Wolfe

11 October 2017

Plus: fraudulent foodie Beel Gibson fined AU$410,000, FCC demands Apple switch on non-existent radio chips, Monty Hall takes a final bow, and more


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Feedback: Why celebrities are a species all of their own

4 October 2017

But which one has the most animals named after them? Plus: spineless creature found lurking in DC swamp, more petronyms, monster fatberg, and more...


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Feedback: What is this mysterious 8-legged metal object?

27 September 2017

Strange happenings in Rhode Island. Plus: UK's science and technology committee lacking in much of either, home remedy leads to cyanide poisoning, and more


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Feedback: The sticky truth about those so-called 'Marmite genes'

20 September 2017

Plus: more grand designs to improve human beings, going to the Moon in foot-long sandwiches, and who is buying these £500 audio cables?


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Feedback: Your suggestions for improving human beings

13 September 2017

From baby pouches to piping hot bodies, there's no shortage of wacky ways to survive climate change. Plus: quantum yoga, and at long last, a female unit.


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Feedback: No more climate change, as US officials ban the phrase

6 September 2017

Plus: labels to turn anything into a home remedy, the last word on how to pronounce Joule, the short shelf life of cheesemakers revealed, and more


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Feedback: Little green men? How we might improve human beings

30 August 2017

We want your ideas for bettering the human race. Plus: the canine collar that rebalances their minerals, and why the Ford Focus is a hypocrite in France.


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Feedback: North American eclipse heralds arrival of doomsayers

23 August 2017

If you're reading this it wasn't the end of the world after all. Plus: jewels, jowls and a scientist brewer, and one chain pub you've not heard of before.


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Feedback: NASA seeks a planet-protecting superhero

16 August 2017

Plus: the pubs frequented by spacemen, fossils and monkey-lions, Ireland's longest distance delivery van, and a man named Chicken Rooster.


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