Department Index
Human Nature 2009:
Science, technology, and life.
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- Semi-Private Womb Selling out abortion rights for health care reform.
Nov. 9, 2009 - Girls in the Hood If women can defend Fort Hood, they can defend America.
Nov. 6, 2009 - You Are Now Free To Mouse About the Cabin Driving should be more like Northwest Flight 188.
Oct. 30, 2009 - Nod Is My Co-Pilot Napping, sex, and abstinence.
Oct. 26, 2009 - Big Brother Is Watching Your Weight Your tax dollars at work, penalizing fat people.
Oct. 21, 2009 - Coke Suckers Is the Coke mini can the new light cigarette?
Oct. 19, 2009 - Sexually Transmitted Injection Why vaccinate girls but not boys against HPV?
Oct. 15, 2009 - Liquid Candy The new addiction is taxing addictions.
Oct. 5, 2009 - Condo Leakage No smoking in your own apartment.
Oct. 2, 2009 - Keep Your Subsidies off My Ovaries The pro-choice argument against health care reform.
Sept. 30, 2009 - Then They Came for the Fresca The growing ambitions of the food police.
Sept. 22, 2009 - Secondhand Smokescreen Are outdoor smoking bans scientifically justified?
Sept. 17, 2009 - Smoke-Free Planet The disappearing boundaries of cigarette prohibition.
Sept. 15, 2009 - The Structure of Scientific Evolutions Evolution's place in a created universe.
Aug. 10, 2009 - Rubber-Baby Money Lumpers The pro-life movement's contraception problem.
Aug. 3, 2009 - Fertile Old Ladies Is it OK to impregnate a 60-year-old woman?
July 30, 2009 - Culture of Death The right-wing assault on abortion reduction.
July 27, 2009 - Driving While Interrogated How to stop cell-phone use behind the wheel.
July 21, 2009 - Mortal Skin Race, genes, and cancer.
July 14, 2009 - Wank Thyself The pro-life case for masturbation.
July 8, 2009 - Textual Infidelity E-mail, adultery, and Mark Sanford.
July 2, 2009 - Broken Is Beautiful Breaking your legs to make yourself taller.
June 30, 2009 - Butt Piracy Why ban the tobacco industry when you can hijack it instead?
June 23, 2009 - Should It Be Illegal To Abort Girls Just Because They're Girls?
June 16, 2009 - Vaginal Probes Abortion, morality, and the law.
June 10, 2009 - Why Can't Airlines Treat Fat People the Way They Treat Tall People?
June 9, 2009 - Will the Next Terrorist Attack Come From a Submarine?
June 8, 2009 - Let's Make an Abortion Deal Four recommendations for Obama's common-ground talks.
June 4, 2009 - Vapor War Our irrational hostility toward electronic cigarettes.
June 3, 2009 - Tiller's Killer Is it wrong to murder an abortionist?
June 1, 2009 - Shredded Weed Taking the fun out of marijuana.
May 27, 2009 - The Belly and the Blade The surgical war on fat.
May 26, 2009 - The Swimsuit Arms Race
May 21, 2009 - Should It Be Illegal To Even Have a Cell Phone in Your Car?
May 11, 2009 - Inequality Control A conversation about race, genes, bias, and fairness.
May 8, 2009 - Personal Best The case for colorblindness in the age of genetics.
May 5, 2009 - Mental Segregation Inequality, racism, and framing.
May 4, 2009 - True, False, or Neither? The perils of analyzing test scores by race.
April 30, 2009 - Heat Check Swine flu, body heat, and airport scanners.
April 29, 2009 - Harm School Rape, S&M, and the Bush torture program.
April 22, 2009 - Charge the Large Too fat for your plane seat? I'll sell you part of mine.
April 16, 2009 - Sex Reversal Child quotas, abortion, and China's missing girls.
April 15, 2009 - In the Future, Will Buses Run on Feces?
April 14, 2009 - Sweet Surrender Taxing soda to make you stop drinking it.
April 10, 2009 - Deeper Digital Penetration The expanding invasion of the naked body scanners.
April 8, 2009 - Does the Stress of Poverty Stunt Poor Kids' Brains?
April 7, 2009 - Oh, No. Now the Repo Man Can Track You Via Satellite.
April 3, 2009 - Shades of Gay The heterogeneity of homosexuality.
April 1, 2009 - Will New DNA Analysis Put Police Sketch Artists Out of Business?
March 31, 2009 - Saletan: Why I Write So Much About "Lady Parts"
March 25, 2009 - Fetal Foreclosure If you stop paying a surrogate mother, what happens to the fetus?
March 24, 2009 - Dish Respect The political crackdown on IVF embryo screening.
March 20, 2009 - Scrambled Eggs Aborting a fetus because it's not yours.
March 18, 2009 - Oh, Great. Now Iran Has Drones, Too.
March 17, 2009 - Drill Babies, Drill If harvesting embryos is OK, how about fetuses?
March 13, 2009 - A Great New Female Condom Approved by the FDA
March 12, 2009 - Winning Smugly You just won the stem-cell war. Don't lose your soul.
March 9, 2009 - Presidential Stress Is Not the Cause of Obama's Gray Hair
March 5, 2009 - Crocktuplets Hijacking the octuplets backlash to restrict IVF.
March 4, 2009 - Why You Shouldn't Breast-Feed While Driving
March 2, 2009 - Brainchild Abuse Bad uses of good technology.
Feb. 27, 2009 - Six Other Ways To Sell Your Body for Money
Feb. 23, 2009 - The View From Above Google Earth exposes a U.S. drone base in Pakistan.
Feb. 20, 2009 - Human Nature
Feb. 19, 2009 - Color ID Screening embryos for eye, hair, and skin color.
Feb. 17, 2009 - How Fat People Could Save the Economy
Feb. 13, 2009 - Now They Have LoJack for Alzheimer's Patients
Feb. 11, 2009 - Tip of the Juiceberg If A-Rod flunked a drug test, what else don't we know?
Feb. 9, 2009 - Vaginal Innard Course Donating a kidney through your vagina or rectum.
Feb. 4, 2009 - Human Nature
Jan. 23, 2009 - Old People Drive Better Than You Think
Jan. 20, 2009 - Holey War How to close the Gaza tunnels.
Jan. 16, 2009 - Eugenic Euphemisms Protecting our children from diseases—and ugly truths.
Jan. 14, 2009 - Doping Deficit Disorder Need performance-enhancing drugs? Claim ADHD.
Jan. 12, 2009 - The DoD Should Give Purple Hearts for PTSD
Jan. 9, 2009 - He Gave His Wife a Kidney. She Divorced Him. What Does She Owe Him?
Jan. 8, 2009 - Night of the Living Dad Software, soldiers, and the future of ghosts.
Jan. 6, 2009 - What the Vatican Doesn't Get About Women's Plumbing
Jan. 6, 2009
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