Briefing
- Egyptian uprising FAQ.
- The Slatest: Afternoon Edition
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Does Egypt have free speech protections?
- Egyptian protests: Slate's complete coverage.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Egypt's revolution began in "the Arab street." Where does that phrase come from?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Expired drugs: Are they still effective?
- How accurate are population forecasts?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Salmon in the State of the Union: Are fish regulations really that complicated?
- Can you train a cat?
- If you love Slate, we want to hear from you.
- Mafia bust: How do mobsters make a living in the 21st century?
- The Jasmine Revolution: How did the Tunisian protests and other recent uprisings get such fanciful names?
- Mob arrests: "Baby Shacks" Manoccio and the source of those mafia nicknames.
- Baby Doc Duvalier is back in Haiti: Are other deposed dictators poised to return?
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Pakistan earthquake FAQ.
- Reince Priebus is the new RNC chairman. How do you pronounce that?
- Jared Lee Loughner may plead insanity. How do mental health workers figure out whether someone is crazy?
- A Daniel Hernandez tribute: Slatereaders name the greatest interns in history.
- The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.
- Why boys like sticks: the Explainer's 2010 question of the year.
- Jared Lee Lougher is still being called the "alleged gunman" in Arizona. Why?
- Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, but has so far survived. How often does that happen?
- Which country has the simplest taxation system?
- Please join us for a live Political Gabfest on Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
- Which backyard insects are best to eat?
- Slate's iPad app now lets you save articles. And use Instapaper.
- Introducing Trending News Channel, Slate V's crowdsourced video newscast.
- Can you tell a person's race from his or her skull?
- What's so great about Israeli security?
- How do astronauts celebrate New Year's Eve? Plus, having the first baby of the year.
- What do anarchists want from us?
- Best Slate Covers 2010: Vain Senators, Obama the Antichrist and Gettysburg on a segway.
- What's life like in a Chinese leper colony?
- Slate's 10 most popular stories from 2010.
- Do dogs need sweaters when it's cold? Plus: Is road salt edible?
- A roundup of Christmas-related questions from the Explainer archives.
- How did mistletoe come to be associated with Christmas kissing?
- What happens to the money in your flex spending account if you don't spend it?
- Winter solstice is the darkest day of 2010. So why isn't December the coldest month?
- Congress voted to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Will gay soldiers who were kicked out of the military be able to re-enlist?
- Why do college students get such long winter vacations?
- What's the point of stealing $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio?
- Did the Militia Act of 1792 set a precedent for Obama's health insurance mandate?
- Readers try to predict how much the New York Times will charge for an online subscription.
- Do 3-D glasses work on cats? Plus 30 more unanswered Explainer questions from 2010.
News & Politics
- Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily: Does he have the patience to make it succeed?
- Egyptian uprising FAQ.
- Health care repeal: Trying to predict how the Supreme Court will rule.
- Egypt's protests were a safe space for women—until things turned violent.
- Egyptian protests: Should we fear the Muslim Brotherhood?
- Egyptian protests, Twitter, and Facebook: How do social media tools enable revolutions?
- Tea Party Democrats? Claire McCaskill and other senators get bullish on the deficit.
- Deficit politics: Why Obama is letting Republicans take the lead in the debate over the federal budget.
- Snow-shovel death and how to avoid it.
- Columbia Ivy League Drug Bust: How reforms to the Rockefeller drug laws could help the alleged Ivy League drug dealers.
- Egyptian protests: Slate's complete coverage.
- Egyptian protests: A dispatch for Tuesday's massive gathering in Tahrir Square.
- The Egyptian protests are exhilarating, but it's important to think about what comes next.
- Evgeny Morozov's Net Delusion: Social media are tools for oppressors, not just activists.
- Health care ruling: Before he can win the future, Obama may have to deal with the past.
- Health care law ruling: How the Democrats gave a Judge Roger Vinson an opening to invalidate the law.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Egyptian protests: A view from the streets.
- The Meter reacts to the new Tea Party Caucus and latest GOP moves.
- Egyptian protests: For too long the familiar stories of repression and resistance went undercovered in the American press.
- Egypt's revolution began in "the Arab street." Where does that phrase come from?
- Egyptian protests: Shame drives people to the streets.
- Mubarak, Obama, and Jimmy Carter: Is the U.S. making the same mistake with Egypt that we did with the Shah of Iran in 1978?
- Egyptian protests: America has tolerated dictators for too long.
- Fame: Who's going to live forever?
- Behavioral economics under attack.
- Tyranny of the Alphabet
- Daniel Bell, 1919-2011: The New York intellectual was a stunningly original mind, an ironic observer, and a genial gossip.
- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych talks about the 2010 elections, relations with Russia and the European Union, and whether Yulia Tymoshenko will be put on trial.
- Barack Obama's Facebook news feed for the past two weeks.
- Jim DeMint's Tea Party Caucus lets activists drive the GOP further to the right.
- Egyptian protests: Photographs of anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Cairo and Suez
- Slate readers pick their favorite political book.
- Palinisms: Did she really say that?
- Republicans in Congress attack Cass Sunstein, Obama's "regulatory czar," but miss their target.
- Obama's State of the Union missed an opportunity to talk about the Constitution.
- Salmon in the State of the Union: Are fish regulations really that complicated?
- Obama's nationalist State of the Union: To win the future, whip the foreigners.
- "Win the future": Obama's State of the Union speech finds its inspiration in corporate-speak.
- State of the Union 2011: Obama's "Sputnik moment"
- Senate filibuster reform yields to stupid bipartisan pantomime.
- Bankers in jail: Did we punish anyone for causing the 1929 stock market crash?
- The Republicans' preposterous budget proposal ignores Social Security, Medicare, and defense.
- The Federal Elections Commission is gutting campaign finance law.
- Obama's State of the Union speech: Will America respond to a national pep talk?
- Can Republicans already take credit for good economic news?
- Could my state declare bankruptcy? It's not likely.
- Democrats and Republicans may sit together for Obama's speech, but partisanship won't budge.
- Rahm Emanuels' residency in Chicago: The courts should butt out.
- Predictive policing LAPD: Can police really predict crime before it happens?
- Moscow's Domodedovo airport bombing: How did they estimate the strength of the bomb?
- Domodedovo Airport Moscow bombing: Is lax airport security another example of Russia's love of risk-taking?
- Domodedovo Airport Moscow bombing: What the attack tells us about modern Russia.
- The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history.
- Barack Obama's second honeymoon: It was as inevitable as it is meaningless.
- The State of the Union and the Supreme Court: What if no Republican appointees showed up?
- Customer-complaint winner announced!
- Stuxnet and the triumph of hacker culture.
- Hu Jintao, health care repeal, and Joe Lieberman's retirement: The Political Gabfest for Jan. 21, 2011.
- Justice: Her changing skin color and features over the centuries.
- FBI Mafia Arrests: The rise of the superindictment.
- The Jasmine Revolution: How did the Tunisian protests and other recent uprisings get such fanciful names?
- ObamaCare repeal succeeds, Republicans fulfill Tea Party promises.
- Mob arrests: "Baby Shacks" Manoccio and the source of those mafia nicknames.
- Tammy Bruce and Sarah Palin: Why an openly gay, ex-NOW official is Palin's biggest fan.
- Health care repeal: Republicans irrelevantly fulfill a Tea Party promise.
- FCC v. AT&T reveals the limits of corporate personhood at the Supreme Court.
- Camden, New Jersey, police: What happens to the city now that it has lost half its police force?
- O, A Presidential Novel: Why aren't there better novels about Washington?
- NYC's report cards for teachers—what are the benefits of releasing this data?
- Joe Lieberman's retirement announcement: Why I loathe him.
- Barack Obama Anonymous Novel: What if Tom Friedman or Rahm Emanuel wrote it?
- General Dynamics v. United States: The state secrets privilege at the Supreme Court.
- Pakistan earthquake FAQ.
- Herman Cain, 2012 GOP candidate for president? The Tea Party darling and pizza magnate's chances.
- Federal judges are getting older—and more often senile.
- Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution: progress or regression?
- Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution," which ousted President Ben Ali, is about demography, not democracy.
- If everything breaks right, the global economy could grow by 4 percent in 2011.
- Jared Lee Loughner may plead insanity. How do mental health workers figure out whether someone is crazy?
- A Daniel Hernandez tribute: Slatereaders name the greatest interns in history.
- Customer complaint letters: A reader contest.
- John McCain on Obama's speech: Can he return to his old bipartisan self?
- Jared Lee Loughner's Nietzsche: Why the philosopher is misunderstood by angry young men.
- John Mearsheimer's new book, Why Leaders Lie, catalogs the lies nations tell each other.
- Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex": His farewell address has been completely misunderstood.
- Jared Loughner's world of illusion.
- The Lebanese government collapsed; why you should care.
- Lebanese government collapse: The sectarian reality for Christians, Sunnis, and Shiites.
- Jared Lee Loughner was obsessed with dreams. Do crazy people have extra-crazy dreams?
- Nobel laureates have figured out the eight investments that will help the planet most. No. 1: micronutrients.
- Obama's Tucson memorial speech: How it elevated the political debate.
- The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords leaves members of Congress at a loss in more ways than one.
- What happens when Supreme Court justices try to think like criminal suspects.
- Assessing the Day 4 newspaper coverage of the Giffords shootings.
- Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late.
- Sarah Palin Blood Libel: Palin opposes collective blame for monsterous crimes, unless they are committed by Muslims.
- Are assassins like Jared Lee Loughner more likely to target liberals?
- How Obama can talk about tolerance without trivializing a tragedy.
- If Jared Lee Loughner is too insane to be influenced, he's too insane to be executed.
- China's new stealth fighter jet shouldn't make Americans worry.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Life after Jared Lee Loughner.
- Could Gabrielle Giffords be forced to resign for health reasons?
- Daniel Hernandez may have saved Gabrielle Giffords' life. Send us other examples of memorable interns!
- Jared Lee Lougher is still being called the "alleged gunman" in Arizona. Why?
- Jared Loughner is ready for his photo op.
- Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is not the anti-Joe Arpaio.
- Arizona's response to the Gifford shooting: Only guns can stop gun violence.
- Why was it so hard to kick Loughner out of Pima Community College?
- Jared Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords, and the Tea Party
- Jared Loughner: Of course his actions were politically motivated.
- Mumtaz Qadri shot Salman Taseer 28 times; in Pakistan, he's a hero.
- South Sudan votes for secession, worries later.
- The individual health care mandate is a conservative concept that conservatives now say they despise. What gives?
- Mumtaz Qadri: Salman Taseer's killer has no excuse for resorting to political violence.
- Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Rep. Bob Brady shouldn't try to legislate civility.
- Kent Slinker, Jared Lee Loughner's philosophy professor, on the shooting in Arizona.
- After the Arizona shootings, can Obama—or anyone—bring America back from the brink?
- Jared Lee Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords' suspected shooter, has three names. So do lots of famous assassins. What gives?
- The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
- Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, but has so far survived. How often does that happen?
- The Giffords Shooting: Rolling thoughts about the press, the Web, and political assassination.
- WikiLeaks and Glenn Beck show that journalism is becoming more influential—but also more reductive.
- If conservatives want to deny "anchor babies" U.S. citizenship, they'll have to change the Constitution.
- The press neither flatters nor captures Obama's new chief of staff.
- When did radio announcers start talking like Ted Williams, the homeless man with a great voice?
- A compromise on the debt ceiling and another promised-but-meaningless health care vote.
- How conservatives could inadvertently revive the public option.
- Could using less cash drive down crime?
- NPR purged Juan Williams without clear due process. Is it doing the same to Ellen Weiss?
- One year after the earthquake, Haitians wonder if international aid is keeping their country poor.
- William Daley, the president's pragmatic new chief of staff, shows the White House's new approach.
- Secretary Robert Gates' dramatic (but limited) plan to cut defense spending.
- What House Republicans left out when they read (parts of) America's founding document.
- The Senate may finally curb the filibuster. Hallelujah.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Republicans make good on two promises: trimmer federal spending and starting the repeal of health care reform
- Members of the House try to sit still for a reading of the Constitution.
- How to end the filibuster.
- Deadly Images: A Q&A with Barbie Zelizer, author of About to Die: How News Images Move the Public.
- Will John Boehner's House rules screw up the GOP?
- Vanity Fair portrays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a shrewd negotiator and master shape-shifter.
- House Speaker John Boehner makes a big deal on his first day about being humble.
- The decline of the serial killer.
- It makes no sense to blacklist Obama adviser Gene Sperling because he worked for Goldman Sachs.
- Which backyard insects are best to eat?
- Robert Gibbs' successor as press secretary may have a lot of competition.
- The Don't-Tread-on-Meter: Tracking the promises made by and to conservative officials and activists.
- Why Republicans are better at fomenting outrage, real and pretend, than Democrats are.
- In the new House, Republicans sound like Democrats—and vice versa.
- How the Tea Party's fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble.
- As the oil price rises, so does Russian belligerence.
- At an RNC debate, Michael Steele half-heartedly asks to keep his job.
- John Boehner's Michele Bachmann problem.
Arts
- A new tally by VIDA shows how few female writers appear in magazines.
- John Constable's cloud obsession on display at the Yale Center for British Art.
- Architecture speak: An essay on the ridiculous way architects talk.
- Academy Awards 2011: Our Oscars pool rewards knowledge and risk.
- Dead Space 2 review: How a fantastic video game nearly ruins a franchise.
- Night Catches Us: A criminally overlooked film about the legacy of the Black Power movement.
- James Blake's debut album, James Blake, reviewed.
- "Roses"
- Reckoning with Torture: Robert Redford, Doug Liman, and other filmmakers and artists unite to remind Americans about prisoner abuse.
- Kenneth Slawenski, J.D. Salinger: A Life: It's basically hagiography.
- Friday Night Lights: You're being too hard on Tami.
- Jason Statham and Ben Foster find time for some awesome, ridiculous male bonding.
- The best music of 2010: The mainstream is a dying beast.
- Jesse James Nazi photos: How common is Nazi iconography among bikers?
- The Mechanic: How Jason Statham become the world's biggest B-movie star.
- Jean Larteguy's The Centurions: It's coming back into print.
- Hawaii Five-O: Why is the CBS remake so popular?
- Oscar nominations: 12 high-wire performances that pandered to the academy but didn't even get a nomination.
- Oscar Nominations 2011: Hooray for Hailee Steinfeld, Dogtooth, and Jacki Weaver!
- How the proportional voting system used in Oscar nominations encourages diversity.
- Roger Ebert's 3-D rant is close-minded and wrong.
- Robert Pinsky poetry discussion: When poets compose under pressure.
- The Way Back: Peter Weir's new movie is Hollywood's first film about the Soviet Gulag.
- Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions: Japan's Oscar shortlist film showcases the darkest and most intense director working today.
- The Unholy Pleasure: My life-long recovery from snobbery.
- Halo, Wikipedia, World of Warcraft: How are they good for us? Jane McGonigal explains in Reality is Broken.
- Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish's How To Write a Sentence.
- Mark Augustus Landis: The bogus benefactor-cum-Jesuit priest who has been conning art galleries for 30 years.
- MTV Skins: It's not child pornography.
- The Company Men reviewed: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, and Rosemarie Dewitt.
- Claire Dederer's Poser: The time bind, and the companionate marriage.
- American Idol: Season 10:Steven Tyler delightful bleeps; Brett Loewenstern learns to love himself.
- No Strings Attached reviewed: Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher try to be more than friends who have sex all the time.
- American Idol: Season 10: Steven Tyler is like the judging love child of Simon Cowell's wandering eye and Paula Abdul's wandering mind.
- The slow-photography movement asks what is the point of taking pictures?
Life
- NFL concussion class action: Could the league withstand a lawsuit from players with brain injuries?
- Disney World: Can a childless, adult man have fun visiting the Mecca of the Mouse?
- Road kill: It's what's for dinner.
- Marriage finance: Having joint plus separate accounts.
- Caño Cristales: The most beautiful, undiscovered river in South America.
- Padma Lakshmi's custody battle: Adam Dell's lawsuit is unseemly.
- Theory of mind and the belief in God.
- Fast-food oatmeal: Which is best, McDonald's, Starbucks, or Au Bon Pain?
- Marriage finance: Should couples pool all their money?
- American anxiety: The three real reasons why we are more stressed than ever before.
- Hurricane Katrina refugees, married virgins, bad manners: Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Newlywed finances: Deciding how to manage our money.
- Tilda Swinton's style: Soon her beguiling androgyny will be everywhere.
- Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Peggy Orenstein's new book.
- Soccer stats, Prozone, Opta: The trouble with soccer's statistical revolution.
- Holocaust survivor Hanni Levy tells her story at Berlin's Silent Heroes Memorial Center.
- Nipples showing through a shirt: Dear Prudence addresses whether it's improper.
- Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness.
- Can you train a cat?
- NFL playoffs 2011, football concussions: The mindset of a former player turned NFL commentator.
- Americans overwhelmingly prefer white chicken meat. What happens to the dark parts?
- Wine critic Mike Steinberger tries a '47 Petrus in awkward company.
- Bus Driver Appreciation Day: A fitting tribute to one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
- Regis Philbin, Joe Lieberman, and Brett Favre are retiring: Woody Allen and Queen Elizabeth should also call it quits.
- Advice for a woman whose friend thinks she's cheap.
- Military deployment, pricey weddings, and politics at work: Dear Prudence chats live with readers live at Washingtonpost.com.
- Fitness model Kim Strother: The strange life of an exercise pinup.
- Franz Kafka, J.P. Müller: The exercise system that swept Europe in the early 1900s. (VIDEO)
- Brussels sprouts: America's most hated vegetable.
- Soloflex, Jerry Lee Wilson: A pilot, a shirtless spokesmodel, and a transformational home-fitness device.
- P90X, CrossFit: The rise of the "extreme" exercise routine.
- Face exercise: Is it a scam or a fountain of youth?
- Exercise DVDs from Biggest Loser to the Wii: My endless, fruitless quest.
- Family mental health issues, political mudslinging, STDs concerns: Advice from Dear Prudence.
- Fitness, Shape, Women's Health, Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Self: Where did the fitness magazine come from and where is it going?
- Fitness for foreigners: How people exercise in China, Pakistan, Sudan, and Sweden.
- Gym etiquette flowchart: What you should do when you see someone you know at the gym.
- Jack LaLanne, Jane Fonda, Jillian Michaels: Who's the best fitness guru?
- Advice column: Cheating, wedding etiquette, racist children, and druggie relatives.
- Geoff Dyer on Utah.
- The ominous rise of amateur ornithology.
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, is the Slate Audio Book Club pick for January.
- My boyfriend demands a sex act that I don't like.
- Streetcars vs. monorails: The fight for the future of urban transportation.
- Friend or Foe: Advice for a woman whose friend doesn't respect her sex addiction.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- What the Retirement Living cable channel can tell us about how the boomers are changing retirement.
- Does it make sense to start overtime with a surprise onside kick?
- How will Crystal Harris like life as Mrs. Hugh Hefner?
- Should we allow a sex offender in our home?
- The sexy faces of women eating chocolate in stock photos.
- Why my son will not be wearing a sledding helmet.
- Dear Prudence chats live with readers at Washingtonpost.com.
- Swords: The murder weapon of nerds.
- How to make a decent cup of tea, following George Orwell's golden rules.
- A history of the hangover.
- How do astronauts celebrate New Year's Eve? Plus, having the first baby of the year.
- My ex-wife is angry I'm having a kid after telling her I wasn't ready for parenthood. Am I a jerk?
- Champagne: It's not just for the holidays.
- The Worst Cads of 2010, from Charlie Sheen to Mel Gibson.
- A defense of "May-December" marriages like Hugh Hefner's.
- How Diana Vreeland's Allure changed fashion-speak.
- Prudie hears back from advice-seekers about how helpful her guidance turned out.
- Slate illustrated, 2010.
- Jean Shepherd, the man who told A Christmas Story.
- Kwanzaa might be made-up, but it was useful for one family.
- Hail Mary: You have more in common with the mother of Jesus than you think.
Business & Tech
- FCIC report: Wall Street's debt problem is different from yours.
- iPhone app store, Amazon Kindle: Why e-book sellers should stop playing by Apple's rules.
- Invisible Internet regulation: The obscure, legalistic, and alarming ways the government shapes the future of technology.
- Egyptian protests: How a food crisis is driving a political crisis.
- Lunch with Charlie Rose.
- Go ahead, give all your money to charity.
- Egypt Protest Internet Shut Off: How did the Egyptian government turn off the Internet?
- Net Neutrality and Internet Regulation: Government and politicians can help the Internet most by doing nothing.
- Return to the gold standard? It's just crazy enough for some state legislators to propose it.
- Kickstarter, the brilliant site that lets you fund strangers' brilliant ideas.
- BankUnited's resurrection illustrates everything that went wrong in the housing bubble.
- Google Voice, number portability: How to teach your old phone number new tricks.
- Obama's State of the Union speech will sound a lot like Bush's and Reagan's.
- The mancession is over: Women are the economy's new losers.
- Does Your Broker Love You?
- Economics is as popular as ever as a science, yet people don't trust economists. Why?
- Can Thingd make online shopping social?
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt out, Larry Page in: Was Schmidt too nice to beat Apple?
- "Precommitment devices" will help you to lose weight, stop drinking, and not sleep with jerks on first dates.
- Customer complaint letters: Pick the winner!
- Elon Musk's new spacecraft, the Dragon, should revolutionize American space exploration.
- Verizon iPhone data plan: Unlimited or pay as you go? Which will the carrier choose?
- European financial crisis over? The stock market disagrees with the credit markets. Which is right?
- Republicans claim the poor caused the global financial collapse. New economic evidence proves they're wrong.
- Patent trolls and IBM: Will Big Blue's meta-patent fix a broken system?
- A pre-existing health-conditions study says half the country is uninsurable.
- Steve Jobs' medical leave: Apple CEO is keeping the reasons for his absence private. Is that fair to investors?
- Steve Jobs' medical leave: Apple's CEO will leave the company—even if he's healthy.
- What industrial safety can teach us about preventing financial meltdowns.
- Wikipedia's 10th birthday, and what Jesus' page can tell us about it.
- Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
- How Groupon's success could bring dozens of coupons to your inbox.
- Republicans are right: Obamacare's high-risk pools were a dumb idea. But it was their dumb idea.
- How the company that made Jared Lee Loughner's gun became so successful.
- An interactive map of 15 years of UFO sightings.
- Verizon iPhone release: Five reasons why you might want to hold off on buying one.
- Why Verizon's decision to pass on the iPhone six years ago is looking better and better.
- What is the debt ceiling, and does the United States really need one?
- Goldman Sachs' Facebook investment: Wall Street favoring the big guys.
- Just how tied in with Wall Street is the Obama administration?
- Which country has the simplest taxation system?
- The case against the Consumer Electronics Show.
- If they read their own research, economists might disclose conflicts of interest more often.
- Why couldn't the Democratic Congress conduct an ethics trial for Rep. Maxine Waters?
- The Nissan Leaf, an electric car that doesn't drive like an electric car.
- The Dave Matthews Band shows how to make money in the music industry.
Science
- Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
- The new bioeconomy: How synthetic biology will bring us cheaper plastics by ruining the poorest nations on Earth.
- Synthetic biology and Obama's bioethics commission: How can we govern the garage biologists who are tinkering with life?
- Solar water heaters: Are they better than solar electric panels?
- Do women feel colder than men?
- Expired drugs: Are they still effective?
- How accurate are population forecasts?
- Fecal transplants could be a cheap and effective treatment for certain infections.
- Kermit Gosnell and post-viability abortions: Pro-choice bloggers weigh in.
- Science fiction teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
- Carlina White kidnapping case: How our fear of infant abduction could be causing real harm..
- Kermit Gosnell and late-term abortions: An answer to pro-choicers.
- Exercise and drug use: What do they have in common?
- Darwin's Rape Whistle: Jesse Bering responds to the critics.
- Should young women be getting more amnio tests than older women?
- Kermit Gosnell late-term abortion scandal: How late in pregnancy is too late to choose?
- Slime molds can farm their own bacteria when food is short.
- Steve Jobs' liver transplant: Did he game the system?
- Football concussions and brain damage, from high school to the NFL.
- Secondhand car seats and breast pumps: Eco-friendly tips for expecting parents.
- Misoprostol, Malta, and DIY abortions.
- Have women evolved to protect themselves from rapists?
- Gabrielle Giffords and the perils of guns: How an armed hero nearly shot the wrong man.
- Desalination: How eco-friendly is it?
- Thalidomide's comeback.
- If suspect Jared Lee Loughner has schizophrenia, would that make him more likely to go on a shooting spree in Arizona?
- The common statistical thread between psychiatric diagnosis and grad school rankings.
- When will the Gulf of Mexico finally be free of BP-spilled oil?
- How can we make pharmaceutical drugs less toxic to the environment?
- What's the greenest way to shave?
- Is grass-fed beef better for the environment?
- India is fencing off its border with Bangladesh. What will that mean for millions of potential climate refugees?
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the future of sexual morality.
- An evolutionary case for cannibalism.
- Why don't more Americans use their free health insurance?
- The David Epstein incest case: If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong?
- Who's rougher on the environment: China or India?
- Evangelical environmentalists are getting serious. Now if only they could all get along.
- How to identify a shark on a biting rampage.
- Face it: There's not much any one person can do about climate change.
- Most scientists in this country are Democrats. That's a problem.
- How should we use data to improve our lives?
- Can rich nations pay Indonesia to protect its rainforests?
- The case against peer review.
- The NASA study of arsenic-based life was fatally flawed, say scientists.
- Do real men like to cuddle?
- What's the greenest way to cook up classic holiday fare?
- What should we make of Arizona's new law for rationing organ transplants?
- Blogging the Periodic Table: Arsenic.
- Why babies need more tummy time than they're getting.
Podcasts & Video
- Jason Statham in The Mechanic, the Onion News Network on IFC, and Jane McGonigal's Reality Is Broken on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Pro Bowl, Sidney Crosby's concussion, and football language.
- Dear Prudence advice VIDEO: Two-Timing Woman.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 28, 2011.
- Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: The Audio Book Club discusses.
- The 2011 Oscar nominations, IFC's new sketch comedy show Portlandia, and Brock Enright's Videogames Adventure Services on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the Packers and Steelers, Jay Cutler, Jimmer Fredette, and the Onion's SportsDome.
- Dear Prudence video: In the closet at work.
- Hu Jintao, health care repeal, and Joe Lieberman's retirement: The Political Gabfest for Jan. 21, 2011.
- Miss America Teresa Scanlan's political ambitions, "Darwin's Rape Whistle," and a new book about The Feminine Mystique on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast.
- Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs and the Sports Illustrated series "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story."
- Dear Prudence: Smothering Friend
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 14, 2011.
- Jared Loughner's parents, Claire Dederer's Poser, and Caitlin Flanagan's "Hazards of Duke" on this week's DoubleX Gabfest podcast.
- Downton Abbey, the censored Huckleberry Finn, and Ted Williams of the "Golden Voice" on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's sports podcast on the NFL playoffs, the BCS title game, Andrew Luck, and Jim Harbaugh.
- House of hoarders.
- The Political Gabfest for Jan. 7, 2011.
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- Blue Valentine, the year in movies, and Google's Ngram database on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the NFL playoffs, the Rose Bowl, the NHL's Winter Classic, and Allen Iverson in Turkey.
- Dear Prudence: Singalong Nuisance.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 31, 2010.
- 2010: The Year That Wasn't
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on the new translation of Madame Bovary.
- Video: Killer Apps With Farhad Manjoo
- Slate's Culture Gabfest on Sofia Coppola's latest film, Somewhere; the best TV shows of 2010; and New Year's resolutions.
- Slate's sports podcast on the rebirth of the Knicks, college football bowl mania, and the UConn women's basketball team's place in history.
- The Coen brothers' True Grit, the case against caps lock, and the death of Captain Beefheart on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Giants-Eagles, NBA super-teams, and HBO's 24/7 Penguins Capitals.
- Dear Prudence: Holiday Ingrate
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 17, 2010.
- Video: Up in Your Business.
- Slate's DoubleX Gabfest on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, John Boehner's crying, and holiday cards.
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- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on the badness of the NFC West, Jayson Werth's big contract, and ESPNW.
- The Political Gabfest for Dec. 10, 2010.
- The Culture Gabfest, "It's Not Me, It's Me" Edition
- Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Cam Newton, the World Cup in Qatar, LeBron James, and Tiger Woods
- Video: Up in Your Business
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