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

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

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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