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There’s a fairly obvious answer to that question when you realise that many of the track ones were set in the 1980s when drugs testing was a lot less rigorous than it is now. And that most of them were set by athletes that came under suspicion of drug misuse. But apparently things aren’t as straightforward as that.

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Did the adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett fake his own death? This seems like an incredible question to find posed in a national newspaper, even in August. You feel that an editor would want some pretty decent sources before running a story of this sort, that is potentially so upsetting to the deceased’s loved ones. Yet, here is The Independent running just such a story. And it has some pretty good sources.

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This is one for anyone who has ever felt that a certain film starring Jim Carrey has a particular resonance for them: two Canadian psychiatrists have identified a new syndrome - people who believe their lives are a reality TV show.

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This blog and its management have always been extremely interested in the conspiracy theory phenomenon. Here’s an interesting link to an article by Frank Furedi on Spiked Online analysing the subject. In it he claims that the whole thing stems from anti-intellectualism and a return to primitive beliefs in evil forces beyond the control of humanity but still able to control their fate.

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Here’s an anniversary this blog really couldn’t ignore - Tunguska, the unexplained event a century ago that caused a massive explosion in Siberia, turned the skies dark and broke windows hundreds of miles away.

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To celebrate today’s news that the UK’s Ministry of Defence is to release its very own X-files, we bring you a sneak preview of some of the more compelling evidence.

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Here’s an old favourite that we must now assume has bitten the dust. Here’s a piece from The Independent on the fate of the last of the Romanovs.

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Have just found out about the crystal skull phemomenon, for the first time, after learning that it’s going to be the central plot in the new Indiana Jones movie.

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This, from The Telegraph is not actually funny at all, it’s an extremely sad story. But it’s another example of how things happen in real life that are way, way stranger than any fiction plot.

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