Science, technology, and life.

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• Lesbians of Mass Destruction The empty case against Mary Cheney.
  William Saletan Dec. 23, 2006
  
• The Best "Human Nature" Stories of 2006 The prurient, the revolutionary, and the outrageous.
  William Saletan Dec. 19, 2006
  
• Dismembered How the earwig lost his other penis.
  William Saletan Dec. 18, 2006
  
• Cut Up the Fat Kid Weight-loss surgery for adolescents.
  William Saletan Dec. 11, 2006
  
• Tempting Fat The coming crackdown on trans fats.
  William Saletan Dec. 9, 2006
  
• Penile Subcontinence Are Indian men too short for condoms?
  William Saletan Dec. 4, 2006
  
• Catch and Shoot The perils of "contagious shooting."
  William Saletan Nov. 30, 2006
  
• Forespray The joy of spray-on condoms.
  William Saletan Nov. 27, 2006
  
• Girth Control Food and sex without consequences.
  William Saletan Nov. 24, 2006
  
• Chickenstein Growing new limbs in birds and people.
  William Saletan Nov. 20, 2006
  
• Jock in a Box Why work out when you can take pills instead?
  William Saletan Nov. 13, 2006
  
• Mortal Combat The exploding politics of biotechnology.
  William Saletan Nov. 11, 2006
  
• Thanks for the Brain, Stupid Did Neanderthal genes make us smart?
  William Saletan Nov. 6, 2006
  
• Why Girls Sleep Around The evolutionary case for female promiscuity.
  William Saletan Oct. 30, 2006
  
• Brain Disease The psychosis of Rush Limbaugh.
  William Saletan Oct. 27, 2006
  
• Smashing Big Brother The vigilante war on speed-limit cameras.
  William Saletan Oct. 23, 2006
  
• Spins of the Father Mark Foley's abuser blames the bottle, too.
  William Saletan Oct. 20, 2006
  
• Sleep It Off Why staying up makes you fat.
  William Saletan Oct. 16, 2006
  
• Virtually Abnormal The perils of policing cybersex.
  William Saletan Oct. 14, 2006
  
• Nature and Sodomy Gay animals on exhibit.
  William Saletan Oct. 9, 2006
  
• Spin the Bottle Mark Foley's 10-step rehab program.
  William Saletan Oct. 5, 2006
  
• Hemorrhoid Face For those who can't tell one end from the other.
  William Saletan Oct. 3, 2006
  
• Where the Rubber Meets Roe The pro-life case for contraception.
  William Saletan Sept. 30, 2006
  
• Genitally Modified Organisms Changing the sex of your food.
  William Saletan Sept. 25, 2006
  
• Giving Head The first human penis transplant.
  William Saletan Sept. 22, 2006
  
• Deformer Babies The deliberate crippling of children.
  William Saletan Sept. 18, 2006
  
• Better Than Sex The growing practice of embryo eugenics.
  William Saletan Sept. 16, 2006
  
• The Unspeakable Buried alive in your own skull.
  William Saletan Sept. 12, 2006
  
• Chicks on Bikes Why wigs are more protective than helmets.
  William Saletan Sept. 11, 2006
  
• Buried Alive Are we euthanizing conscious patients?
  William Saletan Sept. 5, 2006
  
• Please Do Not Feed the Humans The global explosion of fat.
  William Saletan Sept. 2, 2006
  
• A Cure for Cancer if you don't count the 88 percent death rate.
  William Saletan Aug. 28, 2006
  
• Mohels to Mozambique The case for genital mutilation.
  William Saletan Aug. 19, 2006
  
• The Liquid World How to survive in an age of death.
  William Saletan Aug. 10, 2006
  
• Hi, I'm Joe, and I Won't Be Your Server The lesson of Lieberman's Web site crash.
  William Saletan Aug. 9, 2006
  
• A/C D.C. The deluded world of air conditioning.
  William Saletan Aug. 5, 2006
  
• Among the Transhumanists Cyborgs, self-mutilators, and the future of our race.
  William Saletan June 5, 2006
  
• Big Brother Is Watching Himself Using American drones to spy on American soldiers.
  William Saletan May 30, 2006
  
• The Conscience of a Carnivore It's time to stop killing meat and start growing it.
  William Saletan May 27, 2006
  
• The Male Biological Clock Procreate by 40 or you'll start shooting blanks.
  William Saletan May 22, 2006
  
• Cut-off Genes Our gentle descent toward eugenics.
  William Saletan May 19, 2006
  
• Did Humans Mate With Chimps? And are we their offspring?
  William Saletan May 15, 2006
  
• Master Sunshine The overzealous war on indoor tanning.
  William Saletan May 13, 2006
  
• Bang, We're Dead How our universe will end, and another will be born.
  William Saletan May 8, 2006
  
• Sister Soda Bill Clinton triangulates the war on fat.
  William Saletan May 5, 2006
  
• Nappaquiddick? Ted Kennedy's son blames his crash on Ambien.
  William Saletan May 1, 2006
  
• Solemnize Me It's time for gay covenant marriage.
  William Saletan April 29, 2006
  
• Predators and Preemies Why old men shouldn't impregnate young women.
  William Saletan April 24, 2006
  
• Big or Me What Big Love teaches about marriage and jealousy.
  William Saletan April 21, 2006
  
• This is Your Brain on Jugs What sexy women do to men's thinking skills.
  William Saletan April 18, 2006
  
• Another Face Transplant? This week's surgeons: the People's Liberation Army.
  William Saletan April 17, 2006
  
• Junk-Food Jihad Should we regulate French fries like cigarettes?
  William Saletan April 15, 2006
  
• Can A Dying Heart Heal Itself? Yes—if you give it a few years' rest.
  William Saletan April 10, 2006
  
• The Deity in the Data What the latest prayer study tells us about God.
  William Saletan April 6, 2006
  
• Obesity Inflation Are we getting so fat we've forgotten what fat is?
  William Saletan April 3, 2006
  
• The Birds and the B's Are morning-after pills abortion or contraception?
  William Saletan April 1, 2006
  
• Smart Kids Are Slower Why your child's brain takes longer to develop.
  William Saletan March 27, 2006
  
• Don't Do Unto Others The difference between gay marriage and polygamy.
  William Saletan March 23, 2006
  
• Drinking While Intoxicated Texas arrests people for getting drunk—in bars.
  William Saletan March 20, 2006
  
• Bygone Age Old age is changing. So should Social Security.
  William Saletan March 18, 2006
  
• The Men's Bill of Rights No taxation without ejaculation.
  William Saletan March 15, 2006
  
• Our Virgin Birth What created the universe in a millisecond?
  William Saletan March 13, 2006
  
• My Secret Burden The abortion-rights movement grapples with repression.
  William Saletan March 9, 2006
  
• Take the Fifth South Dakota's invitation to snuff your embryo.
  William Saletan March 7, 2006
  
• Remind Me Why I Pay You? Social Security recipients, healthier than ever.
  William Saletan March 6, 2006
  
• The Road From Roe Can technology break the abortion stalemate?
  William Saletan March 4, 2006
  
• Monkey See, Baby Do Why humans are more helpful than chimps.
  William Saletan Feb. 27, 2006
  
• Never Say Never The arrogance of the partial-birth abortion ban.
  William Saletan Feb. 24, 2006
  
• Shut Up and Choose Why you make better decisions without thinking.
  William Saletan Feb. 21, 2006
  
• Turin Sample The nonsense of Olympic doping rules.
  William Saletan Feb. 18, 2006
  
• Rubbers and Ratzinger Will the Vatican bend on birth control?
  William Saletan Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Joystick vs. Jihad The temptation of remote-controlled killing.
  William Saletan Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Shut Your Mouth The newest unsafe sex act: French kissing.
  William Saletan Feb. 6, 2006
  
• Stop, or My Drone Will Shoot Hunting terrorists with aerial killing machines.
  William Saletan Jan. 30, 2006
  
• Men Are From Vengeance Men, women, and the joy of punishment.
  William Saletan Jan. 26, 2006
  
• Relax and Enjoy It Why intercourse beats masturbation.
  William Saletan Jan. 23, 2006
  
• Hypocritic Oath Scalia on abortion vs. Scalia on assisted suicide.
  William Saletan Jan. 19, 2006
  
• Sperm Secrets Do you have a right to know your genetic parents?
  William Saletan Jan. 17, 2006
  
• Teachers' Pets? Are teachers who sleep with boys getting off?
  William Saletan Jan. 16, 2006
  
• Eat Me Human cannibalism and the Donner Party.
  William Saletan Jan. 9, 2006
  
• Breaking Eggs The lesson of the Korean cloning scandal.
  William Saletan Jan. 4, 2006
  
• Oral Sects A new campaign against bloodsucking circumcision.
  William Saletan Jan. 3, 2006