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Slate's Explainer Podcast
Answers to your questions about the news—on your MP3 player.  
  Dec 03, 2008   Explainer Podcasts  
The Man Who Did It All
Or so he'd have you believe. Does Hitchcock get too much credit?  
Juliet Lapidos   Dec 04, 2007   Culturebox  
Slate's Explainer Podcast
Answers to your questions about the news—on your MP3 player.  
  Nov 17, 2008   Explainer Podcasts  
Slate's Explainer Podcast
Answers to your questions about the news—on your MP3 player.  
  Jan 02, 2009   Explainer Podcasts  
The Culture Gabfest, "Tangled Up in Yule" Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the week in culture.  
Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner   Nov 04, 2009   Culture Gabfest  
Who Owns a Suicide Note?
How the D.C. Madam's last words made it into the newspaper.  
Juliet Lapidos   May 06, 2008   Explainer  
The Future Plastic
China's plastic-bag ban.  
Juliet Lapidos   Jun 09, 2008   Recycled  
Do Kids Need a Summer Vacation?
Why schoolchildren get to take three months off.  
Juliet Lapidos   Jun 23, 2008   Recycled  
Can My Shrink Rat Me Out?
Did Bruce Ivins' therapist have to say that her patient was a homicidal sociopath?  
Juliet Lapidos   Aug 05, 2008   Explainer  
What's Next for the Bird's Nest?
The afterlife of Olympic stadiums.  
Juliet Lapidos   Aug 26, 2008   Explainer  
What's a "Compliance Fund"?
A loophole in the public financing rules for presidential elections.  
Juliet Lapidos   Sep 12, 2008   Explainer  
You Say Depression, I Say Recession
Are we talking about the same thing?  
Juliet Lapidos   Sep 30, 2008   Explainer  
Can Paulson Fire Naughty Executives?
How much control does the Treasury have over personnel at AIG?  
Juliet Lapidos   Oct 08, 2008   Explainer  
What Makes Toxicology So Slow?
Why it's taking so long to investigate the death of Michael Jackson.  
Juliet Lapidos   Jul 14, 2009   Recycled  
Will Early Voting Skew Exit Polls?
No.  
Juliet Lapidos   Oct 28, 2008   Explainer  
How Many Civilians Are Dead in Gaza?
Figuring out who's who among the casualties.  
Juliet Lapidos   Dec 30, 2008   Explainer  
Speechwriter for a Day
The best antimetabole submissions from Slate's reader contest.  
Juliet Lapidos   Sep 12, 2008   Good Word, The  
How Do You Find a Missing Plane?
With lots more planes.  
Juliet Lapidos   Jun 02, 2009   Explainer  
Why Did It Take Google So Long To Take Gmail Out of "Beta"?
It's been around for more than five years!  
Juliet Lapidos   Jul 07, 2009   Recycled  
Is Stephen Colbert Breaking the Law?
How Colbert '08 could run afoul of the FEC.  
Juliet Lapidos   Oct 23, 2007   Explainer  
How To Clean a Bloody Knife
Does DNA come off with soap and water?  
Juliet Lapidos   Nov 20, 2007   Explainer  
What's an Anti-Suicide Smock?
It's noose-proof.  
Juliet Lapidos   Dec 05, 2007   Explainer  
Voters Heart Huckabee?
The New York Times Magazine profiles Mike Huckabee.  
Juliet Lapidos, Jake Melville and Morgan Smith   Dec 14, 2007   Other Magazines  
Really, a Man Can't Become a Magnet
Slate readers weigh in with their own stories of personal magnetism.  
Juliet Lapidos   Mar 07, 2008   Science  
What's in a Passport File?
All the information your bank tells you to keep secret, and more.  
Juliet Lapidos   Mar 24, 2008   Explainer  
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