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1. Hitler Had Jewish Roots

   Telegraph

   This would probably have qualified as an inconvenient truth had anyone known at the time.

   Issue #54: August 31, 2010

2. Fast Food Ad vs. Reality

   The West Virginia Surf Report

   Don't pay attention to photos in ads.

   Issue #52: August 17, 2010

3. 73% of Americans Oppose Deepwater Drilling Ban

   Kip Chipman, Bloomberg

   Despite the spill. Some experts have recently argued that the BP spill is not the worst case scenario.

   Issue #48: July 20, 2010

4. Chef Found Dead After An Eel Ate His Bowels

   The Sun

   A gruesome tale, and one that leaves a lot of disturbing questions unanswered (most notably, how and why?).

   Issue #37: May 4, 2010

5. Stoned to Death in Somalia

   World Press Photo

   Warning: Seriously disturbing images.

   Issue #30: March 16, 2010

6. Boy Heard Over Air Traffic Control Directing Planes at JFK Airport

   BBC News

   A father possibly takes the idea of bringing your child to work a little too far.

   Issue #29: March 5, 2010

7. Turkish Girl, 16, Buried Alive for Talking to Boys

   Robert Tait, Guardian

   Does something good come out of everything that's bad? Tough to argue that in this case.

   Issue #26: February 12, 2010

8. Italian Guards Discover a 15-Year-Old Afghan Boy Hiding Inside Luggage

   Nick Pisa, The Daily Mail

   Apparently, the boy gave himself away by sneezing.

   Issue #23: January 22, 2010

9. Evidence in Favor of the Claim that the U.S. Tortured Guantanamo Inmates It Knew to Be Innocent

   Andrew Sullivan

   Sullivan is a fierce proponent of the idea that the Bush administration committed war crimes. One of his purportedly informed readers highlights the evidence.

   Issue #21: January 8, 2010

10. Man in 23-Year 'Coma' Was Conscious All Along

    Kate Connolly, The Guardian

    The moral of this half-tragic, half-shocking story: Just because someone appears unconscious does not mean his brain is not fully functioning.

    Issue #16: November 27, 2009

11. Man Allegedly Uses Facebook to Sexually Proposition His Daughter

    Philadelphia Inquirer

    The father and daughter had not met in over ten years.

    Issue #10: October 16, 2009

12. Ohio Executioners Fail to Find Vein

    Lewis Smith, The Independent

    A horrifying story sheds light on this method of execution.

    Issue #6: September 18, 2009

13. Will Texas Say It Executed an Innocent Man?

    Mark Memmott, NPR

    Cameron Willingham was executed by the state of Texas in 2004 after being convicted of killing his three daughters in a fire. Chances are he didn't do it.

    Issue #4: September 4, 2009