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  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Study: Oysters "Functionally Extinct"

    Image via​Do you love oysters? Looks like you might have two choices:1) Eat all you can now before they disappear for good.2) Don't eat them at all -- for a while, at least -- until the population rebounds.A new study from the Nature Conservatory and the University of California has found that oys ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

    Image via​Do you love oysters? Looks like you might have two choices:1) Eat all you can now before they disappear for good.2) Don't eat them at all -- for a while, at least -- until the population rebounds.A new study from the Nature Conservatory and the University of California has found that oys ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    A Century After His Death, Twain is Back Atop of the Best-Seller List

    image via​October has been a rough month for Jonathan Franzen. First his glasses got stolen. Then he didn't get nominated for the National Book Award. And now Freedom has been overtaken and surpassed on the Amazon best-seller list by volume one of The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Yeah, Franzen ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    To pull off the biggest pit bull fighting bust in U.S. history, investigators went deep undercover. So did their dogs.

    image via​October has been a rough month for Jonathan Franzen. First his glasses got stolen. Then he didn't get nominated for the National Book Award. And now Freedom has been overtaken and surpassed on the Amazon best-seller list by volume one of The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Yeah, Franzen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Dick Durbin and Monsanto: An Unholy Alliance That Will Put an End to Agricultural Freedom?

    image viaDurbin: Slave to Monsanto?​A hysterical rumor has been making its way through the Internet over the past few months alleging that Senate Bill 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, is a threat to small farmers and gardeners who like to grow their own fruits and vegetables. Worse, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Unexpurgated Mark Twain Autobiography to Be Published in November

    Image source​104 years ago, when he was 70 years old, Mark Twain began dictating his autobiography to a stenographer. He finished shortly before his death on April 21, 1910. The finished manuscript came in at more than 500,000 words, but Twain didn't expect the whole thing to be published. "F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    The Noble Writ: Gifts for the Wine Lover

    ​'Tis the season for gift-giving, and if you have some wine lovers on your shopping list, you may be puzzled over what to give them. Having been both a giver and a receiver of wine-related gifts for many years, I offer the following humble suggestions:Gift CertificatesFrom my experience, buying w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Foul-Stinking Flower Blooms at UMSL!!

    Photo by Nicholas PhillipsA sort-of bloomingThe corpse flower at UMSL hath bloomed!!! (Well, it opened up slightly.)But the Daily RFT can assure you: on Sunday, it did smell like a rotting corpse. And it did remind us of death. I.e., your death. My death. The death that awaits each of us, always. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    The Noble Writ: Chardonnay for the Chardonnay Haters

    Dave Nelson is the author of the blog Beer, Wine and Whisky. He writes about wine for Gut Check every Tuesday.The world produces an ocean of chardonnay. In California alone, almost 100,000 acres of this incredibly popular grape variety are planted. That's enough chardonnay to make -- using modest c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    Minor Leagues: Cardinals Youngsters Show Promise

    Dave Nelson is the author of the blog Beer, Wine and Whisky. He writes about wine for Gut Check every Tuesday.The world produces an ocean of chardonnay. In California alone, almost 100,000 acres of this incredibly popular grape variety are planted. That's enough chardonnay to make -- using modest c ... More >>

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Will America's Language
    Please Stand Up?

    The Mexican calls dibbies on Spanish

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Gland of Opportunity

    Dr. William J. Catalona built an unrivaled repository of blood and tissue samples. Washington University wants to keep it. Now a judge will decide: Who owns the prostates?

  • Music

    May 9, 2001

    Champing at the Bit

    The Fucking Champs wage their solitary war on the wuss hegemony, the indie-rock cabal, the bass and soundmen

  • News

    December 27, 2000

    The Buck Stops Here

    Modern-day Daniel Boones are a deer's best friend -- and its worst nightmare

  • News

    April 7, 1999

    Dead Dogs Walking

    Thousands of feral dogs -- abandoned to disease, starvation and inevitable death -- are leading short and brutal lives in the no-man's-land between domestication and wildness. For a lucky few, Randy Grim is their unlikely savior.

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