Coug’d it

Published 5:47 pm Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Huffing and puffing: New analysis by University of Washington researchers contradicts an earlier study at Washington State University that found that killing problem wolves increases attacks on livestock.

The discrepancy will be settled like all disagreements between the UW and WSU: with a series of disparaging jokes about the other’s school.

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Nationwide is whir, click, buzz: Last week’s decision by federal transportation officials that computers in self-driving cars would be considered “drivers,” raises questions about who pays when an autonomous vehicle is at fault in a wreck.

Already Geico and other insurance companies are adjusting their ads: “You could save 15 bitcoins on car insurance in just 15 nanoseconds.” And an ad where Progressive’s Flo just speaks a series of ones and zeros in binary language.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered photographic evidence of Pluto.

Unfortunately, he missed the sign on Pluto’s surface that read, “Don’t bother; I’m just a dwarf planet.”

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