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