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June 24 2005 1:05 PM

Toothpaste for Dinner

A slide-show tour of the most addictive comic on the Web.

By Sam Anderson

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Toothpaste for Dinner.

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Science

How Much Should People Pay to Save Their Sick Pets?

The Time the United States Blew Up a Passenger Plane—and Tried to Cover It Up

The Anti-Obamacare Carnival

Why I’m Still a Butch Lesbian

Read a Spooky Excerpt of Haruki Murakami’s New Novel

The Eye

How Asian Companies Took Over the U.S. Furniture Market—Before One Virginia Man Fought Back

The 1979 Rockford Files Episode that Inspired The Sopranos

When a Species Poisons an Entire Planet

David Weigel Interviews Rep. Justin Amash

Read a Spooky Excerpt of Haruki Murakami’s New Novel

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Politics

The Anti-Obamacare Carnival

The Week in Photos: The Aftermath of MH17 and the Ongoing Chaos in Gaza

Buzzenfreude and Plagiarism

How Russia Keeps Europe Weak and Divided

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Brow Beat

The 1979 Rockford Files Episode that Inspired The Sopranos

Read a Spooky Excerpt of Haruki Murakami’s New Novel

Can You Solve Tsukuru Tazaki’s Puzzle?

Watch the Delightfully Weird Trailer for Tusk, Kevin Smith’s New Horror Comedy

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Future Tense

Courts Increasingly Treat Corporations Like People. They Should Treat Robots Like People, Too.

Russia Is Offering a $100,000 Reward to Anyone Who Can Crack Tor

It Will Soon Be Legal to Unlock Your Cellphone

What Sci-Fi Movies Get Right and Wrong About Time Travel

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Business Insider

Why This Startup Hires Employees With Autism

The Invention of the Nike Swoosh

Lyft Is Launching in New York City Tonight

Despite What Paul Ryan Thinks, the Poor Don't Need Hand-Holding

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The Eye

How Asian Companies Took Over the U.S. Furniture Market—Before One Virginia Man Fought Back

Ohio State’s Marching Band Revealed To Be a Bastion of Homophobia, Sexism

Michele Bachmann: Gays Would Let Adults “Freely Prey On Little Children Sexually”

Quiz: What's the Most Unique Relationship Between Language and Culture?

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Bad Astronomy

When a Species Poisons an Entire Planet

How Much Should People Pay to Save Their Sick Pets?

How to Store Carbon Dioxide? Lock It Up in Rocks.

The Seahorse and the Rainbow

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The XX Factor

Keith Olbermann Wonders Why the NFL Doesn't Think Women Are Worthy of “Basic Human Respect”

Republican Congressional Nominee: A Woman Can Run for Office With Husband's Permission

Republican Strategy on Women: "Rape Is a Four-Letter Word. Purge It From Your Lexicon."

The Scientific Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work

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Sports Nut

A Whole Lot More Examples of Wimbledon Plagiarism by the Times of London’s Neil Harman

Wimbledon Discovered Its Annual Yearbook Was Full of Plagiarism, Kept Selling It Anyway

How to Follow Soccer Now that the World Cup Is Over

Lance Stephenson Is the Most Fascinatingly Flawed Player in the NBA

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Video

This Huge Comet Impact on Jupiter Convinced NASA to Track Near-Earth Objects (Video)

How to Tell an Animal Is Domesticated Just by Looking at It (Video)

Orange Is the New Black Is Making One Real-Life Sheriff Very Unhappy (Video)

Help! My Mother Is Obsessed With My 1-Year-Old’s “Waistline.”

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Behold

Take a Tour of Tokyo in Miniature

Combining Images Across Time and Place to Tell a Single Story

Gripping Images of Gaza Under Siege

Are These Photos Staged? Does It Matter?

WeigelCast

David Weigel Interviews Rep. Justin Amash

Slate Money on How Herbalife Dodged an Attempted “Death Blow”

Would You Let Your Husband Road Trip With an Ex?

Will Biden Run in 2016?

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Frame Game

Arutz Sheva Is the Fox News of Israel. You Should Watch It.

Watch a Live Stream of the July 24 Political Gabfest Taping

New Editor Julia Turner Chats With Slate Plus Members About the Magazine’s Future

David Plotz Reads His All-Time Favorite Slate Essay: “Watching the Couples Go By” (AUDIO)

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