Doublex
Don’t Be a CreepLessons from the latest terrible, sad, fascinating scandal in the science blogging world.
Two Lives
Fourteen Oddball Reasons You’re Not Dead YetA selection of underappreciated people, innovations, and ideas that save lives.
Two Lives
Long Lives Made Humans HumanOld people were invented in the Paleolithic Age and perfected in the 20th century.
Science
Cats Are EvilWhy New Zealand is right to consider banning them in order to save its wildlife.
Im
Is The Impossible Reprehensible?Laura Helmuth and Dan Kois argue about the new movie based on the 2004 tsunami.
Science
How Did Science, Medicine, and the Environment Do in the Elections?Your House of Representatives now has twice as many physicists.
Human Genome
Watch Francis Collins Lunge for the Nobel PrizeAn underhanded attempt by the National Institutes of Health to claim full credit for sequencing the human genome.
Science
Who Will Win a Nobel Prize?Everything you need to know about the contenders, rivalries, scandals, and politics of the famous awards.
Two Lives
What Saved Your Life?Slate readers shared fascinating, heartwarming stories. Here are 50 fun ones.
Two Lives
The Disturbing, Shameful History of Childbirth DeathsIf you are pregnant, do not read this story.
Two Lives
How Would You Have Died in 1811?Play our Wretched Fate game and risk dropsy, quinsy, consumption, and worms.
Medical Examiner
So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Called Us to Complain …He says scientists lie, journalists are scared of the CDC, and the government is poisoning children.
Culturebox
What’s the Worst Thing a Teacher Ever Said to You?We thanked the good teachers yesterday. Now let’s remember the ones we hated.
Doublex
Danica Patrick, Shut Up and DriveRacing’s fastest female is throwing the women’s movement into reverse.
