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Apr 30, 2002 · The Darwin Awards shares the stories of those human beings who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion. Marvel at the thief who tries to steal live electrical wires. Gape at the lawnchair jockey who floats to a height of 16,000 feet suspended by helium balloons. And learn from the man who peers into a ...
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Wendy Northcutt, author of the Darwin Awards website and books The origin of the Darwin Awards can be traced back to posts on Usenet group discussions as early as 1985. A post on August 7, 1985 describes the awards as being "given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.
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About Wendy Northcutt. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993. Her award-winning Web site www.DarwinAwards.com is one of the most popular humor pages on the Web. The Darwin… More about Wendy Northcutt
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Jan 1, 2001 · Wendy Northcutt. 27 books39 followers. Wendy Northcutt graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993 and founded www.DarwinAwards.com shortly after. Northcutt is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin ...
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Oct 19, 2000 · There are some urban legends, like the sergeant said to have attached a Jet-Assisted Take-Off unit to his Chevy and hit a cliff 125 feet up (not true, says author Wendy Northcutt), and all-too-true honorable mentions, like the man who put weather balloons on his lawn chair, soared to 16,000 feet, crashed into power lines, blacked out Long Beach ...
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The Darwin Awards: Felonious Failures. by Wendy Northcutt. 4.00 · 82 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 4 editions. When it comes to criminals, Darwin wades in the sh…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action (Darwin Awards, #1), The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection (Darwin Awards, #2), The Darwin Awards III ...
A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993. Her award-winning Web site www.DarwinAwards.com is one of the most popular humor pages on the Web.
