Dubious and far-fetched ideas.

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• The Joy of Unicorns The real reason you never see the mythical one-horned beasts.
  Frank Lesser Sept. 27, 2011
  
• Lizzie Borden, Dancing the Cha Cha Cha Dancing With the Stars casts through the ages.
  Josh Levin Aug. 30, 2011
  
• You Can't Measure America's Grit Hatred of sabermetrics comes to business and politics.
  Josh Levin June 29, 2011
  
• Tackling a Person of Interest What to expect from the Secret Service's new Twitter feed.
  Nathan Heller May 10, 2011
  
• The Final Edition EXCLUSIVE: The New York Times shuts down!
  May 10, 2011
  
• Cats of War The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed.
  Christopher Beam May 5, 2011
  
• Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan, in a Mansion Match history's most-notorious fugitives to their evil lairs.
  Jeremy Singer-Vine May 2, 2011
  
• "If I Ran the Team …" We would win every game: A poem for the opening day of baseball season.
  Hart Seely March 30, 2011
  
• Posted This Morning on Craigslist, Cairo Also fit, fun, classy.
  Feb. 11, 2011
  
• Made in USA Americans should be proud of their fine domestic tear gas.
  Allison Silverman Feb. 3, 2011
  
• The Story of O What if Tom Friedman, Rahm Emanuel, or Helen Thomas wrote that anonymous new novel about Barack Obama?
  Christopher Beam Jan. 19, 2011