Science, technology, and life.

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• The Best "Human Nature" Stories of 2007 The year's top 10 science and tech stories.
  William Saletan Dec. 28, 2007
  
• Personal Space Invaders The top science-and-tech privacy threats of 2007.
  William Saletan Dec. 27, 2007
  
• Subprime Clones Will the livestock industry keep your food clone-free?
  William Saletan Dec. 17, 2007
  
• Cultural Selection The evolution of evolution.
  William Saletan Dec. 14, 2007
  
• Birth in the Balance A carbon tax on parents for procreating.
  William Saletan Dec. 10, 2007
  
• Phoning It In The travesty of political robo-calls.
  William Saletan Dec. 7, 2007
  
• Hold the Fart Fighting global warming through animal burps.
  William Saletan Nov. 29, 2007
  
• Created Equal Race, genes, and intelligence.
  William Saletan Nov. 18, 2007
  
• Cyborg Soldiers War, networked helmets, and "augmented cognition."
  William Saletan Nov. 12, 2007
  
• Insect Propellant Animal brains in robotic bodies.
  William Saletan Nov. 5, 2007
  
• Jewgenics Jewish intelligence, Jewish genes, and Jewish values.
  William Saletan Nov. 1, 2007
  
• An Inconvenient Newt Newt Gingrich, environmentalist.
  William Saletan Oct. 30, 2007
  
• We Know You're Reading This Page Corporate surveillance of your online behavior.
  William Saletan Oct. 29, 2007
  
• Doctored Watson Racism, science, politics, and revisionism.
  William Saletan Oct. 26, 2007
  
• The Worm Turns The genetic reversal of sexual orientation.
  William Saletan Oct. 22, 2007
  
• Blackpedal More from James Watson on race, evolution, and intelligence.
  William Saletan Oct. 15, 2007
  
• The Jihadsons Technology lessons from the Iraq war.
  William Saletan Oct. 12, 2007
  
• No headline 
  Oct. 8, 2007
  
• Liquor License Should we lower the drinking age?
  William Saletan Oct. 8, 2007
  
• Visible Bodies Your medical records on the Web, thanks to Microsoft.
  William Saletan Oct. 1, 2007
  
• The Mind-Booty Problem Rethinking the age of sexual consent.
  William Saletan Sept. 27, 2007
  
• Denial of Cervix Why genital cancer often leads to divorce.
  William Saletan Sept. 24, 2007
  
• Wrongful Termination Abortion, genetic tests, and pro-choice squirming.
  William Saletan Sept. 17, 2007
  
• Liberal Interpretation Rigging a study to make conservatives look stupid.
  William Saletan Sept. 14, 2007
  
• F--- Off Skip work and make love for your country.
  William Saletan Sept. 10, 2007
  
• A Nation of Limbaughs Debating the epidemic of painkiller abuse.
  William Saletan Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Same Sex Larry Craig's anti-gay hypocrisy.
  William Saletan Aug. 30, 2007
  
• Waste High Drug-testing cities through their sewage.
  William Saletan Aug. 27, 2007
  
• Kicking Butt The international jihad against tobacco.
  William Saletan Aug. 17, 2007
  
• Sexual Acts Imaginary girlfriends, real rape, and real divorce.
  William Saletan Aug. 13, 2007
  
• Cappuccino Cures The health benefits of coffee.
  William Saletan Aug. 6, 2007
  
• Fat Lies Revisited Obesity, self-discipline, and stigma.
  William Saletan Aug. 2, 2007
  
• Man and Beast The slippery slope of human-animal hybrids.
  William Saletan July 30, 2007
  
• Fat Lies Obesity, laxity, and political correctness.
  William Saletan July 26, 2007
  
• Womb For Growth Developing an "artificial uterus environment."
  William Saletan July 23, 2007
  
• Arms and the Boy Children seeking athletic enhancement through surgery.
  William Saletan July 16, 2007
  
• Rights and Wrongs Liberals, progressives, and biotechnology.
  William Saletan July 13, 2007
  
• Double Vision Differentiating your eyes through surgery.
  William Saletan July 9, 2007
  
• Food Fight The case for turning crops into fuel.
  William Saletan July 7, 2007
  
• She Said, He Said Do women talk more than men?
  William Saletan July 2, 2007
  
• Identity Transplant The latest step toward engineering artificial life.
  William Saletan June 25, 2007
  
• Animal Farm The recombination of man and beast.
  William Saletan June 22, 2007
  
• Dumb and Dumber Why firstborn kids are smarter.
  William Saletan June 18, 2007
  
• Sleeping Booty The evolution of women's erotic dreams.
  William Saletan June 11, 2007
  
• Brave Old World What Dad didn't tell you about the birds and bees.
  William Saletan June 9, 2007
  
• Bad Habits Using nuns … to sell beer … as medicine.
  William Saletan June 4, 2007
  
• Global Farting Fighting climate change through reduced flatulence.
  William Saletan May 29, 2007
  
• Bloodless Revolution The abolition of menstruation.
  William Saletan May 26, 2007
  
• Crotch Shot The backlash against cosmetic vagina surgery.
  William Saletan May 21, 2007
  
• Snow Job Artificial skiing in Dubai and Texas.
  William Saletan May 14, 2007
  
• Chess Bump The triumphant teamwork of humans and computers.
  William Saletan May 11, 2007
  
• Bully Crap The certified epidemic of childhood cruelty.
  William Saletan May 7, 2007
  
• Bareback Mountain Gays, horses, bimbos, and bestiality.
  William Saletan May 5, 2007
  
• Dope on a Soap Caffeinating your body in the shower.
  William Saletan April 30, 2007
  
• Sex, Life, and Videotape Ultrasound and the future of abortion.
  William Saletan April 28, 2007
  
• Vaginally De-Livered Another breakthrough in "natural orifice" organ extraction.
  William Saletan April 23, 2007
  
• Low Tech Thank God the Blacksburg killer only had guns.
  William Saletan April 19, 2007
  
• Doctor's Orifice Removing organs through mouths, rectums, and vaginas.
  William Saletan April 16, 2007
  
• Shopped Liver The worldwide market in human organs.
  William Saletan April 14, 2007
  
• Boy Meets Bulimia Gay men and eating disorders.
  William Saletan April 9, 2007
  
• Wankers Away Your tax dollars at work, launching rich people into space.
  William Saletan April 2, 2007
  
• Mind Makes Right Brain damage, evolution, and the future of morality.
  William Saletan March 31, 2007
  
• From Ex-Lax to Xbox When geezers become gamers.
  William Saletan March 26, 2007
  
• SpongeBoob The rise of breast implants.
  William Saletan March 19, 2007
  
• Full-Mental Nudity The arrival of mind-reading machines.
  William Saletan March 17, 2007
  
• Cold Comfort Oceans of water frozen in Mars.
  William Saletan March 12, 2007
  
• Real Food for Real People A groundless beef with the Atkins diet.
  William Saletan March 8, 2007
  
• Der Sisterbanger A couple's petition to legalize incest.
  William Saletan March 6, 2007
  
• Digital Penetration Invasion of the naked body scanners.
  William Saletan March 3, 2007
  
• Rice Creepies Human genes in your breakfast cereal.
  William Saletan Feb. 26, 2007
  
• Planning of the Apes How chimps craft lethal weapons.
  William Saletan Feb. 20, 2007
  
• Shooting Pain The future of heat-beaming weapons.
  William Saletan Feb. 17, 2007
  
• Mammary Impairment Testing your breast milk for alcohol.
  William Saletan Feb. 12, 2007
  
• Wool and Graze Gay sheep revisited.
  William Saletan Feb. 8, 2007
  
• Alcoholics Adulterous Blaming your affair on the bottle.
  William Saletan Feb. 5, 2007
  
• Brokeback Mutton Gay sheep and human destiny.
  William Saletan Feb. 3, 2007
  
• Smother Earth Cooking your planet with gas.
  William Saletan Jan. 29, 2007
  
• Lucky Stroke How brain damage cures smoking.
  William Saletan Jan. 22, 2007
  
• Girl, Interrupted The power to shrink human beings.
  William Saletan Jan. 20, 2007
  
• Birth-Control Doughnuts The new rap on trans fats: infertility.
  William Saletan Jan. 16, 2007
  
• The Embryo Factory The business logic of made-to-order babies.
  William Saletan Jan. 15, 2007
  
• Shrunken Head How to lose half the length of a penis.
  William Saletan Jan. 8, 2007
  
• Cloned Bull The bum rap on cloned food.
  William Saletan Jan. 5, 2007
  
• Lapdaughter Stunting a girl's growth to keep her portable.
  William Saletan Jan. 2, 2007