Roxanne Palmer

Roxanne Palmer

Roxanne Palmer is a staff writer for the World Science Festival.

Future Tense

July 25 2014 3:25 PMWhat Sci-Fi Movies Get Right and Wrong About Time TravelRoxanne Palmer and Julie Rossman

Brow Beat

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Dear Prudence

Help! My Mom Is Catfishing Some Guy on a Dating Site.

12 Signs It’s Time to Get Out of Gaza

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The Christian Compassion of Dr. Willie Parker, the Doctor at Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic

Video

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Surprising No One, House GOP Fails to Pass Border Bill

Washing Machine and Power Drill Sales Suffered During World Cup, Journal Reports

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Vin Diesel Shows His Softer Side, Covers Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me”

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Surprising No One, House GOP Fails to Pass Border Bill

12 Signs It’s Time to Get Out of Gaza

Neel Kashkari and the Ghost of Tom Joad

Rand Paul Wants MSNBC “Hacks and Cranks” to Apologize to Him on TV “for 24 Hours”

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Brow Beat

Vin Diesel Shows His Softer Side, Covers Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me”

The Into the Woods Movie Looks Enchanting

A Rewarding New TV Drama About Why People Even Try to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Dick Smith, R.I.P. Here’s How the Makeup Master Perfected Fake Movie Blood.

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Future Tense

Horrid California Drought Gets Worse

Are Smart Glasses Really a Thing That’s Happening?

Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Is Profiting on Cybersecurity. But Is It Legal?

How the NSA Hurts Our Economy, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Policy

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Business Insider

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The McDonald’s-NLRB Kerfuffle Suggests That Our Labor Laws Are Woefully Out of Date

Service Workers Deserve Higher Pay. They Also Desperately Need Some Vacation.

An Astonishing Soviet Hovercraft From the 1980s

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The Eye

A Cage-Free Zoo That Helps Hide the Humans From the Animals

A Post–World War I “Hunger Map of Europe,” Aimed at the Hearts of American Kids

Sex Verification in Women’s Sports Is Humiliating and Unnecessary

Can Duolingo Teach Foreign Students English?

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Bad Astronomy

50 Years Ago Today, a U.S. Spacecraft Took Its First Pictures of the Moon

Psychologists’ Food Fight Over Replication of “Important Findings”

Rosetta Tiptoes Toward a Comet, Starts to See Weirdness

What Caused This Weird Crater on the Moon?

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The XX Factor

The Christian Compassion of Dr. Willie Parker, the Doctor at Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic

Putting More Restrictions on Abortions Doesn't Magically Inspire Women to Embrace Their Pregnancies

When Bachelors Talk About Sex, The Bachelorette Gets Blamed

Couples Who Share Housework Don't Actually Have Less Sex

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Sports Nut

Washington Football Team Facts: Everything You Need to Know About Why the Nickname Has to Go

Who Is Behind the New Washington Football Team Propaganda Site? An Investigation.

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

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Video

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The Disturbing Signs Earth Is Already Amid a Mass Extinction Event (Video)

Definitive Proof It’s Time to Give Up Handshakes for Fist Bumps (Video)

Help! My Boyfriend Is Perfect, but I Feel I’m Missing Out.

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Behold

Hallucinatory Portraits That Rethink the Ways We Look at Women

Bringing an Abandoned Canadian Town’s Houses Back Home With These Haunting Photographs

How Asian Families Learn to Welcome a LGBTQ Child’s Partner

The Sights and Sounds of Asia’s Incredible Markets

Mom and Dad Are Fighting

It’s Time to Make Up for Thousands of Years of Giving Kids the Dad’s Last Name

How Mike Pesca’s Citi Bike Is Like a Creamy Salad Dressing

Mike Pesca and Mike Francesa Debate Whether Michael Sam Is a “Distraction”

Of Course Goodnight Moon Is a Masterpiece!

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