Science, technology, and life.

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• Children of the Clones When you get pregnant from your twin's ovary, who's the mom?
  William Saletan Nov. 20, 2008
  
• Should You Remove Your Kid's Birthmark? 
  Nov. 18, 2008
  
• Drone Ask, Drone Tell How Pakistan learned to stop worrying and love the killing machines.
  William Saletan Nov. 17, 2008
  
• Original Skin Blacks, gays, and immutability.
  William Saletan Nov. 13, 2008
  
• Knocked-Up Grandmas Impregnating your mother-in-law.
  William Saletan Nov. 12, 2008
  
• Call Off Your Drones Negotiating with Pakistan over remote-controlled killing.
  William Saletan Nov. 4, 2008
  
• Drones vs. Terrorists Are terrorists regaining the advantage over our killing machines?
  William Saletan Oct. 30, 2008
  
• Pre-Birth Defects Prenatal tests, genetics, and abortion.
  William Saletan Oct. 29, 2008
  
• The Robot Proxy War Bush's man-hunting machines—and Obama's.
  William Saletan Oct. 27, 2008
  
• The Mind-BlackBerry Problem Hey, you! Cell-phone zombie! Get off the road!
  William Saletan Oct. 23, 2008
  
• Safe, Legal, and Boring Can Obama take the politics out of abortion?
  William Saletan Oct. 16, 2008
  
• The Presidential Aspirant Who Got Rid of His Daughter's Pregnancy 
  Oct. 15, 2008
  
• Undead Babies The retreating boundaries of organ harvesting.
  William Saletan Oct. 3, 2008
  
• Nowhere To Hide Killer drones that can see through walls.
  William Saletan Sept. 17, 2008
  
• Bristol's Body, Sarah's Choice Abortion, teen motherhood, and parental authority.
  William Saletan Sept. 5, 2008
  
• Miss Conceptions The invisible pregnancies of presidential daughters.
  William Saletan Sept. 2, 2008
  
• Unfinished Race Race, genes, and the future of medicine.
  William Saletan Aug. 27, 2008
  
• Untouchable Did Michael Phelps get a gold medal for a race he lost?
  William Saletan Aug. 25, 2008
  
• Why Is Breaking Records So Easy These Days? 
  Aug. 13, 2008
  
• Ghosts in the Machine Do remote-control war pilots get combat stress?
  William Saletan Aug. 11, 2008
  
• The Price of Survival 
  William Saletan Aug. 8, 2008
  
• No Chubby for Old Men 
  William Saletan Aug. 8, 2008
  
• No Chubby for Old Men 
  William Saletan Aug. 7, 2008
  
• Breast-Feeding Kills The pro-life case against birth control, nursing, and exercise.
  William Saletan Aug. 5, 2008
  
• Fast-Food Conflation More on the Los Angeles fast-food moratorium.
  Aug. 4, 2008
  
• Food Apartheid Banning fast food in poor neighborhoods.
  William Saletan July 31, 2008
  
• Troops Out, Drones In Policing the world with remote-controlled aircraft.
  William Saletan July 30, 2008
  
• War Is Halo Killing real people becomes a video game.
  William Saletan July 22, 2008
  
• South Dakota's Abortion Law: Even More Nonsensical Than You Thought 
  William Saletan July 21, 2008
  
• Crap and Trade, Revisited 
  William Saletan July 21, 2008
  
• Public Toilets Too Gross for Hookers and Drug Addicts 
  July 18, 2008
  
• Night of the Living Meds The U.S. military's sleep-reduction program.
  William Saletan July 16, 2008
  
• Live and Learn JonBenet Ramsey and the death penalty.
  William Saletan July 11, 2008
  
• Crap and Trade Why public toilets should pay you.
  William Saletan July 9, 2008
  
• Phallus in Wonderland Male pregnancy and a la carte sex changes.
  William Saletan July 8, 2008
  
• Animal-Rights Farm Ape rights and the myth of animal equality.
  William Saletan July 1, 2008
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Orgy Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet.
  William Saletan June 27, 2008
  
• Sexual Antagonism A genetic theory of homosexuality.
  William Saletan June 25, 2008
  
• Sexual Reorientation The gay culture war is about to turn chemical.
  William Saletan June 18, 2008
  
• The Fierce Urgency of Later Bush, McCain, and political life extension.
  William Saletan June 16, 2008
  
• New World Disorder Was ADHD an evolutionary asset?
  William Saletan June 12, 2008
  
• Sex, Lies, and Virginity Restoration The case for doctor-assisted chastity fraud.
  William Saletan June 11, 2008
  
• Saturated Fat The genetic limits of obesity.
  William Saletan June 5, 2008
  
• Open-Mouthed Wonder Was oral sex always normal?
  William Saletan May 30, 2008
  
• The Meat Wagon Is Coming To Take Your Kidneys 
  William Saletan May 28, 2008
  
• Oral Is Normal The normalization of oral sex.
  William Saletan May 28, 2008
  
• Leg Up The emerging supremacy of artificial limbs.
  William Saletan May 20, 2008
  
• Free To Be You and You and Me Homosexuality, polygamy, and incest.
  William Saletan May 16, 2008
  
• Is Junk Food Addictive? 
  May 9, 2008
  
• The Robots Are Coming … To Mow Your Lawn 
  May 8, 2008
  
• Not Black and White Rethinking race and genes.
  William Saletan May 5, 2008
  
• The Bio-Artificial Industry 
  May 4, 2008
  
• Don't TNT Me, Bro The moral logic of suicide bombing.
  William Saletan April 28, 2008
  
• Tastes Like Chicken Growing meat without growing animals.
  William Saletan April 22, 2008
  
• Rearming America The military's plan to regrow body parts.
  William Saletan April 18, 2008
  
• There's Nothing Wrong With Eating Dog Meat 
  William Saletan April 16, 2008
  
• Nerdo-Enhancement Geeks, jocks, and doping.
  William Saletan April 10, 2008
  
• Tuck Off The healthy recession in cosmetic surgery.
  William Saletan April 8, 2008
  
• Fetal Subtraction Sex selection in the United States.
  William Saletan April 3, 2008
  
• Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others Today's top science and tech headlines.
  William Saletan April 2, 2008
  
• Revising Human Nature Welcome to the HN blog.
  William Saletan March 28, 2008
  
• Miss Conceptions, Confirmed Science, technology, and life.
  William Saletan March 28, 2008
  
• Human Nature Library Books on life, science, and technology.
  March 28, 2008
  
• Hot Topics Web commentary on science and tech.
  March 26, 2008
  
• Girl Power Coercion, money, and the rise of reproductive freedom.
  William Saletan March 5, 2008
  
• Mindsweeper Reading minds with 90 percent accuracy.
  William Saletan March 3, 2008
  
• Rocket Booster Clemens, Pettitte, and "performance-enhancing" drugs.
  William Saletan Feb. 29, 2008
  
• Rodeo Rage Sports doping for bulls and horses.
  William Saletan Feb. 26, 2008
  
• Sexual Satisfaction Abortion and your right to accurate sex selection.
  William Saletan Feb. 25, 2008
  
• Dual Injection Drugs, enhancement, and Roger Clemens' wife.
  William Saletan Feb. 22, 2008
  
• Fire in the Hole The lucky anatomy of vaginal orgasms.
  William Saletan Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Fat Chance Obesity, genetics, and responsibility.
  William Saletan Feb. 15, 2008
  
• No headline 
  William Saletan Feb. 14, 2008
  
• The Machine of a New Soul The messy biology of human embryos.
  William Saletan Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Where the Boys Aren't Audio torture only teens can hear.
  William Saletan Feb. 11, 2008
  
• Open Primary Obama's breakthrough among whites.
  William Saletan Feb. 6, 2008
  
• Jawbone of an Ass Gestating body parts for transplantation.
  William Saletan Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Home Sexuals The housing bubble and the baby boom.
  William Saletan Jan. 28, 2008
  
• Stand With Honor The tragic stubbornness of George W. Bush.
  William Saletan Jan. 24, 2008
  
• Good Judgment Let's be frank about teen sex and abortion.
  William Saletan Jan. 22, 2008
  
• Assembly Required Constructing the first artificial life form.
  William Saletan Jan. 22, 2008
  
• A Long Way, Baby Who gets credit for the falling abortion rate?
  William Saletan Jan. 14, 2008
  
• Bad Calls Lessons of the New Hampshire polling fiasco.
  William Saletan Jan. 11, 2008
  
• Isn't She Stunning Tasers become a women's fashion accessory.
  William Saletan Jan. 7, 2008
  
• Wetting Her Appetite The latest female arousal drug.
  William Saletan Jan. 2, 2008