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Skeptic Mocks NASA Researcher With 'Flying Pig Award' for Finding Life on Meteorites

By David MoyeApr 1st 2011 – 7:23AM
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When NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover announced, again, last month that he'd found evidence of microscopic life on meteorites, he probably didn't expect to receive the high honor of a Flying Pig Award. But now, the man who some claim is the scientific equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, is getting honored for an...

Unhappy Meal: 'Food Activists' Behead Ronald McDonald

By Ben MuessigFeb 16th 2011 – 1:25PM
Timo Jaakonaho, AFP / Getty Images

Timo Jaakonaho, AFP / Getty Images

Ronald McDonald is the victim of a crime -- and this time the Hamburglar isn't to blame. A group of artists and activists in Finland kidnapped a Ronald McDonald sculpture from a McDonald's restaurant and, despite the efforts of police, managed to behead a version of the fast-food icon in a grisly recording shot in the...

Background on guillotine

The guillotine ( or ; ) is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended.

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