Rowan Jacobsen

Rowan Jacobsen has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

Climate Desk

June 2 2014 1:43 PMThe Puffin Cam Will Break Your HeartWill this year’s chicks be able to choke down strange new fish from the Gulf of Maine?Rowan Jacobsen

News & Politics

Politics

Feb. 27 2015 2:38 PM Big Beef A nutrition panel’s common-sense advice could spark Washington’s next major climate fight. Josh Voorhees

Why It’s Hard for Republican Presidential Candidates to Speak Honestly About Income Inequality

Carly Fiorina Knows How to Speak CPAC

In Turkish Kurdistan, Soccer Means Nationalism and Tear Gas

How America’s Transportation System Discriminates Against the Most Vulnerable

Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate staff writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Why Bill O’Reilly Won’t Share Glenn Beck’s Fate

Scott Walker Thinks Fighting Unions Is Just Like Fighting ISIS

Business

Business Insider

Feb. 27 2015 12:26 AM The Two Women Behind The Dress Definitively Reveal Its Color Hunter Walker

The Enormous Black-White Wealth Gap Is Getting Even Wider

Barnes & Noble’s College Bookstores Are Becoming Their Own Business

Convince Millennials to Pay for Tinder? Please.

The Further This Line Falls, the More Money Companies Are Going to Have to Pay Their Workers

For Women in Tech, Silicon Valley Is Way Worse Than D.C., New Orleans, and Kansas City

Greece's Tax-Evasion Problem Goes Far Beyond the Super Rich

The Internet Has Already Revolutionized Prostitution. But Could Better Apps Make It Truly Safe?

Life

Outward

Feb. 27 2015 1:03 PM Why Facebook’s Quest for Gender Sensitivity Is Doomed Mark Joseph Stern

This Bangkok Hotel Parking Lot Has an Impressive Fertility Shrine

This Brilliant Beehive Delivers Honey on Tap Without Stressing Out the Bees

A Tourist Map of Occupied Paris, Issued to German Soldiers During WWII

The Surprising History of Cute

How Does a Betta Fish Know When Food Is in Its Aquarium?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Aaron Schock

This Striking Mexican Beach Is Hidden in a Hole

Double X

The XX Factor

Feb. 27 2015 10:35 AM Todd Akin Is Thinking About Running for Senate. Legitimately. Amanda Marcotte

This Drug for Binge-Eating Disorder May Be Shady. That Doesn’t Mean the Disease Isn't Real.

Why Do Women Vote Republican?

Women May Not Seek Help for Heart Attacks Because They Fear Being Seen as Hypochondriacs

Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain, Breast Milk, and Discovering Thurston Moore’s Affair

Idaho Lawmaker Who Doesn’t Understand Female Anatomy Knows What’s Good for Women

The Gender Wage Gap Is Especially Terrible in Hollywood

The Three Most Popular Images in Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In Stock Photo Collection

Slate Plus

Politics

Feb. 27 2015 9:30 AM What Happened at Slate This Week? Josh Keating read about making music in the Anthropocene and journeyed into the heart of coding darkness. Joshua Keating

Slate’s Copy Desk Awards Its Redline of the Month

Why Adults Shouldn’t Read YA (Audio)

Hang Up and Listen Bonus Segment: Another Chapter in Deflategate?

Walking Dead Podcast Early Release: Episode 11, "The Distance"

Arts

Brow Beat

Feb. 27 2015 2:23 PM The Dress and the Llamas Are Exactly What the Media Should Be Covering Justin Peters

Listen to Leonard Nimoy Explain the Jewish Origins of His Famous Vulcan Hand Greeting

Just How Viral Is “The Dress”?

How Leonard Nimoy Left Us With the Best Scene in Star Trek

How One Dress United the Internet

Who Sees Blue and Black and Who Sees White and Gold—in One Chart