Kent Sepkowitz

Kent Sepkowitz is a physician in New York City who writes about medicine.

The XX Factor

This Video of Strangers Kissing Is “Beautiful” Because It Stars Models

Developing: Gas Leak Suspected in Massive Blast in East Harlem

Florida-13: Three Things Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Republican Win

Can Tucson Survive Climate Change?

The United Steaks of America: If Each State Could Have Only One Meat, What Would It Be?

Family

HuffPo Blogger’s Case for Banning Hand-Held Devices for Children Is Missing One Thing: Proof

Developing: Gas Leak Suspected in Massive Blast in East Harlem

Arctic Ice Is Still Melting

Happy Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month! What Does and Doesn’t Prevent Disease.

In Defense of I Can't Even

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Hey, Democrats! This Election Will Make You Feel Less Sad About FL-13.

Florida-13: Three Things Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Republican Win

Classic Doonesbury

Why Liberals Should Let California’s Affirmative-Action Ban Stand

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Brow Beat

Look Back on Deadwood, 10 Years Later, With This Great Documentary

Listen to a New Song From Chance the Rapper and Skrillex

Proof That Fantastic Mr. Fox Is Every Bit as Wes Anderson-y as His Live-Action Movies

We Don’t Know Much About Orphan Black Season 2, but It Looks Awesome

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Future Tense

Filters Mislabel Republican Women’s Group, Border Terrier Club Websites as Porn

Netizen Report: Turkish Leaders Disagree on Social Media Blocking

Why Hasn't Radar Found Flight 370? Because It's Not Magic.

The Guy Who Made Flappy Bird Says He Might Bring It Back

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Business Insider

There Was One Big Problem With Sunday’s Cosmos Episode

Everything We Know About Our China Trade Deficit Is Wrong

Analyst Upgrades Apple, Says the iPhone 6 Will Be Huge

My High School Canceled Dances Because Students Would Rather Stay Home and Text Each Other

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Family

HuffPo Blogger’s Case for Banning Hand-Held Devices for Children Is Missing One Thing: Proof

In Defense of I Can't Even

A Clever Redesign of the Drugstore

What's It Like to Sail Around the World?

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Bad Astronomy

Arctic Ice Is Still Melting

Happy Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month! What Does and Doesn’t Prevent Disease.

Spacecraft Sees a Weird Optical Effect on Venus

NASA Morpheus Lander Nails Another Test Flight

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The XX Factor

Women May Be Underrepresented in STEM Because They're Too Concerned With Grades

Mike Huckabee Says That Male Politicians Should Treat Female Opponents Like a “Special Treasure”

This Video of Strangers Kissing Is “Beautiful” Because It Stars Models

Demonizing Sex, Then Trying to Get Laid: The Art of Hooking Up at CPAC

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Sports Nut

Will Adidas’ New World Cup Ball, the Brazuca, Fly Straight or Swerve Like Mad?

Forget the 43-Yard Point After Touchdown Kick. Presenting the Extra Hail Mary.

Children Should Not Be Allowed to Head a Soccer Ball

How the NBC Doc Nancy & Tonya Alters Our Perception of Figure Skating’s Greatest Scandal

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Video

How Long Before Pisa Is Underwater? The Statue of Liberty?

Watch Bizarre Footage of an Asteroid Slowly Breaking Apart

Spinning Away 10 Days in a Human Hamster Wheel

The Amazing Physics of the Water Bouncy Ball

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Behold

Old Detroit in Stunning Black-and-White Photographs

Tokyo’s Incredible Street Fashion

America’s Next Top Farmers

This Port-a-Potty Is the First Sign Things Are Going to Change

Culture Gabfest

Was Newsweek’s Bitcoin Cover Story a Success for Print Journalism?

Are the 34–0 Wichita State Shockers All They’re Cracked Up to Be?

Is Slaughterhouse-Five a Rambunctious Countercultural Lark or a Document of Severe Depression?

Danah Boyd Discusses It’s Complicated

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