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Straight Dope

Had lunch with Ariana today. She pointed me to the excellent Straight Dope, a site for people who want to find out stuff like how they get Teflon to stick to the pan. It’s also the origin of this great bit:

“In some ways we know more about what happened in the universe’s first tenth of a second than we do about what goes on in the interval between ‘Your place or mine?’ and deciding who sleeps on the wet spot.”