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One does not need to be the world's greatest detective, or even follow routine commodities stories online, to deduce what's happening to oil prices at a given time.

In my case, all I need to see is the swarm of red text in the airline stock tracker I have in My Yahoo!

And yeah, you guessed it -- oil shot back up above $112 a barrel at the time of the adjacent screen grab and this writing.

From The AP, via Wired News: Astronomers spot a whopping big hole in the universe.

Naturally, they're baffled. But it makes perfect sense to me, a lay observer with barely a liberal arts degree from barely a university:

• This is where all unmatched socks go.
• This is where my kids' patience resides.