It’s hoax day and I can’t stop the marvel at fab fakes in science. Here are a few famous hoaxes for your April Fools reading pleasure:
Zero-gravity day: Anyone planning on taking a leap April 4 to test the zero-gravity proposition? Don’t forget: Gravity is mutual.
Alabama redefining pi: To keep it closer to the biblical value.
Blondes as an endangered species: World Health Organization study predicting that blonde gene would be extinct by 2202.
Piltdown Man: Skull fragments discovered in the U.K. in 1911. The *missing link between human and ape*.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
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