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Saturday, December 01, 2012

Jake Tapper Of ABC News Plays Not My Job

Jake Tapper

December 1, 2012 We've invited ABC's longtime chief White House correspondent to answer three questions about a real tapper: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Not My Job: We Quiz NASA Engineers On Mars Candy

Missions engineers Bobak Ferdowsi (left) and Adam Steltzner — also known as "Mokawk guy" and "Elvis guy," respectively — helped land the Mars Curiosity rover on Sunday night.

November 24, 2012 On Sunday night, while the rest of us were ooohing and aahing over gymnastics, a bunch of propeller heads at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were flawlessly steering a billion-dollar robotic space laboratory the size of a minivan to a landing on Mars.

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Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job

Adam Riess

November 24, 2012 Before he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Adam Riess had already won a MacArthur "genius" grant, and just about every prize there is to win in his field. So there's really only one place left for him to be victorious: the Not My Job game.

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Economist Paul Krugman Plays Not My Job

Economist Paul Krugman in 2007.

November 24, 2012 Paul Krugman — a professor at Princeton, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and author of many books — has been called "the Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry." We'll ask him three questions about diplomatic gift giving.

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

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