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Science

We Say We Like Creativity, but We Really Don’t

Help! How Do I Tell the Woman of My Dreams I Want to Wait Before We Have Sex Again?

Why the Last Great New Christmas Song Was Written 19 Years Ago

Society Tells Men That Friendship Is Girly. Men Respond by Not Having Friends.

James Beard Was Wrong. Garlic Powder Is Amazing.

Holidays

Why the Last Great New Christmas Song Was Written 19 Years Ago

Are All of Your Photo Memories Actually Making You Forget?

How a Few Liberal Activists Got the Media to Buy Into a Fake “War”

Former San Diego Mayor Avoids Jail Time, Sentenced to Home Confinement

In Season 5 of Community, Jeff Can’t Leave Greendale Behind, Apparently

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Politics

How a Few Liberal Activists Got the Media to Buy Into a Fake “War”

The Krokodil Menace Now Seems Faker Than Ever (and It Already Seemed Very, Very Fake)

Haiti's U.N.-Imported Cholera Has Infected Thousands of People in at Least Four Countries

We Are Now Criminalizing Awesome Secret Compartments. What Is Wrong With This Country?

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Brow Beat

In Season 5 of Community, Jeff Can’t Leave Greendale Behind, Apparently

Chance the Rapper Gets a Big Break From Justin Bieber

Have a Very Indie Christmas

St. Vincent Is Back With a New Album. Hear “Birth in Reverse.”

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Future Tense

This Anti-Google Protest Didn't Go Quite as Planned

The One Thing Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft All Agree On

Computer Scientist Grace Hopper, Subject of Today’s Google Doodle, Rocked Letterman in 1986

The NSA Has Been Spying on World of Warcraft Because Terrorism

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Moneybox

We Lost $10 Billion Bailing Out GM and It Doesn't Really Matter

Private Transportation Largess Revealed

This Congressman’s Hideously Unpopular Idea Also Happens to Be Great

Coding Is Great, but Maybe Everyone Should Learn to Read

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Holidays

Why the Last Great New Christmas Song Was Written 19 Years Ago

Gender-Ratio Map Shows Where The Men Were In 1870

How Big Is the American Closet?

Help! How Do I Tell the Woman of My Dreams I Want to Wait Before We Have Sex Again?

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Bad Astronomy

You Don’t Want to Miss this Outside-the-Airplane In-Flight Movie

How the Heck Did This Planet Get Where It Is? [Photo]

Yes, the Love You Feel for Your Child Really Is Just Neural Chemistry

Bill Nye’s Open Letter to President Obama

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The XX Factor

Society Tells Men That Friendship Is Girly. Men Respond by Not Having Friends.

Alleged Victim of the “Knockout Game” Was Actually a Victim of Domestic Violence

Women Writers on Reading Literature's "Midcentury Misogynists"

Stephen Marche Floats a New Reason for Why Men Shouldn’t Do Housework: Women Are Crazy

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Sports Nut

How Impressive Was Matt Prater’s NFL Record 64-Yard Field Goal?

How Will the United States Fare in the World Cup’s Group of Death?

How Did Jameis Winston Evade a Rape Charge?

Ted Williams Had a Perfect Swing and a Complicated Life

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Dear Prudence

Help! My Sister Won’t Honor the One Condition I Placed on Her Interest-Free Loan.

How Much Can Rick Grimes Whisper-Yell on The Walking Dead? A Raspy Supercut.

Help! My Husband Moans and Groans Whenever I Want to Cut My Hair Short.

Help! I Found Sex Videos of My Husband and His First Wife.

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Behold

Britain’s Beloved Victorian-Era Pleasure Piers

Using Images to Relearn How to Speak

America’s Last Traveling Sideshow

Looking Past the Stereotypes of Haiti

Hang Up And Listen

Can Someone Make It Snow Every NFL Weekend?

The New Lawsuit That Could Gut Obamacare

Are You Desperate for Someone to Talk About The Goldfinch With? We’ll Talk to You!

The Gabfest: Watch a Live-Stream Taping of This Week’s Slate Political Gabfest

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