Zack Kopplin

Zack Kopplin

Zack Kopplin is a science education activist who has fought against creationism being taught with public money.

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Sept. 20 2013 3:48 PMShowdown Over Science in TexasCreationists corrupted state education standards and may push evolution out of textbooks.Zack Kopplin

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June 4 2013 9:00 AMLouisiana’s Latest Anti-Scientific Folly, on VideoLawmaker says faith healing should be allowed in science class.Zack Kopplin

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

An Optical Illusion You Will Swear Is Fake. It Isn't.

The Top 10 TV Shows of 2013

The Outrageous Restaurant Industry Practice That’s Surprisingly Common—and Not Always Illegal

Why Steve Ballmer Got Fired in Two Photos

Brow Beat

Minecraft, the Opera

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

Is Moscow’s Tech Hub a $5.4 Billion Sinkhole or the World’s Next Great Innovation Center?

Healthcare.gov Joins New Coke, BP Spill as Case Studies in PR Mismanagement

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Doonesbury

Today's Doonesbury

Why Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan May Have the World’s Toughest Job

How Obama’s Political Fortunes Predict His Economic Message

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Brow Beat

Minecraft, the Opera

How You Know You’re a Grown-Up: You Look Forward to Cabbage

Apparently There Are Only Four CIA Agents in All of America

The Top 10 TV Shows of 2013

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The Next Silicon Valley

Is Moscow’s Tech Hub a $5.4 Billion Sinkhole or the World’s Next Great Innovation Center?

Cellphone Companies Reveal How Often They Hand Your Data Over to Law Enforcement

Controversial Trade Agreement Could Make "Bio-Piracy" Worse

The Weather Map Today Is Completely Insane

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Moneybox

Could Puerto Rico Be The Next Debt Crisis?

Why Steve Ballmer Got Fired in Two Photos

Goldman Sachs Says A Quarter of Our Labor Market Woes Are About Aging

How to Create a Password That's Easy to Remember but Hard to Hack

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Food

James Beard Was Wrong. Garlic Powder Is Amazing.

What Learning That Santa Isn’t Real Taught Me About Faith

Did I Ruin my Third-Grade Classmate’s Life When I Told her There’s no Such Thing as Santa Claus? A Slate Investigation.

These Stories Will Make Your Skin Crawl

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Bad Astronomy

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

An Optical Illusion You Will Swear Is Fake. It Isn't.

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The XX Factor

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

Women Can Rise on Wall Street If Husbands Stay Home. This Is Not Progress.

Nelson Mandela Expanded Government Health Care. Rick Santorum Uses His Death to Attack It.

Man Asks Internet to Hunt Down His Lost Crush. Internet Thinks Man is Adorable for Asking.

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Sports Nut

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

Fun Map Shows 113 Years of Soccer Player Migration Around the World

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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

Using Images to Relearn How to Speak

America’s Last Traveling Sideshow

Looking Past the Stereotypes of Haiti

Canada’s Wild West

Political Gabfest

The New Lawsuit That Could Gut Obamacare

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

Should You Pull Your Kids Out of Standardized Tests?

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