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Emote Control
Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's parents were faking their distress?  
Chris Wilson   Oct 30, 2009   Science  
The Fat Premium
Congress toys with a silly plan to make Americans lose weight.  
Daniel Engber   Oct 29, 2009   Science  
The Geek Defense
Do criminals with Asperger's syndrome deserve special treatment?  
Erica Westly   Oct 23, 2009   Science  
Too Big To Win
Fat politics and the race for governor of New Jersey.  
Daniel Engber   Oct 19, 2009   Science  
Facial Profiling
Can you tell if a man is dangerous by the shape of his mug?  
Dave Johns   Oct 14, 2009   Science  
Pork Spending
A critical look at obesity and health care reform.  
Daniel Engber   Oct 05, 2009   Science  
Glutton Intolerance
What if a war on obesity only makes the problem worse?  
Daniel Engber   Oct 05, 2009   Science  
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Big Fat Asses …
Does poverty make people obese, or is it the other way around?  
Daniel Engber   Sep 28, 2009   Science  
Let Them Drink Water!
What a fat tax really means for America.  
Daniel Engber   Sep 21, 2009   Science  
Puff Daddies
More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them?  
Daniel Engber   Sep 10, 2009   Science  
Time-Traveling for Dummies
A physicist looks at The Time Traveler's Wife.  
Dave Goldberg   Aug 13, 2009   Science  
Seeking
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.  
Emily Yoffe   Aug 12, 2009   Science  
Throwing Out the Wheat
Are we being too tolerant of gluten-intolerance?  
Daniel Engber   Jul 28, 2009   Science  
Beyond BMI
Why doctors won't stop using an outdated measure for obesity.  
Jeremy Singer-Vine   Jul 20, 2009   Science  
Hands or Paws or Anything They Got
Masturbation in the animal kingdom.  
Daniel Engber   Jul 16, 2009   Science  
Jesus Goes to Bethesda
Just how religious is Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?  
Chris Wilson   Jul 09, 2009   Science  
Bombs, Man-Apes, and Ancient Cities
A history of science publishing in images from the archives of Nature magazine.  
Chris Wilson   Jun 15, 2009   Science  
Periodic Discussions
Element 112 was discovered more than a decade ago. Why wasn't it given a place on the periodic table until now?  
Sam Kean   Jun 12, 2009   Science  
Explosions in the Lab
What can be learned from the death of a young biochemist at UCLA?  
Beryl Lieff Benderly   May 22, 2009   Science  
America's Got Science Talent
The biomedical research community goes bananas for $200 million in stimulus funding.  
Amanda Schaffer   Apr 29, 2009   Science  
Dark Sugar
The decline and fall of high-fructose corn syrup.  
Daniel Engber   Apr 28, 2009   Science  
Swine Flu
Here's what you need to know.  
  Apr 27, 2009   Science  
The Problem With 3-D
It hurts your eyes. Always has, always will.  
Daniel Engber   Apr 02, 2009   Science  
My Own Private B.O.
Forensic chemists examined my odorprint. Here's what they smelled.  
Dave Johns   Mar 25, 2009   Science  
The B.O. Wheel     Mar 25, 2009   Science  
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