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  <title>Everything about Slate's 10th anniversary.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Celebrating our first decade with some of our all-time favorite articles, lots of self-congratulation, and a few sharp critiques.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2143252/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <title>Slide show: Ten years of Slate design.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In the 10 years since Slate launched, we've gone through several home-page redesigns.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2143868/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>June Thomas</author>
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  <title>Go ahead—sleep with your kids.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Every night thousands of parents, following standard child-care advice, engage in a bloodcurdling ritual. They put their several-months-old infant in a crib, leave the room, and studiously ignore its crying. The crying may go on for 20 or 30 minutes before a parent is allowed to return. The baby may then be patted but not picked up, and the parent must quickly leave, after which the crying typically resumes. Eventually sleep comes, but the ritual recurs when the child awakes during the night. The same thing happens the next night, except that the parent must wait five minutes longer before the designated patting. This goes on for a week, two weeks, maybe even a month. If all goes well, the day finally arrives when the child can fall asleep without fuss and go the whole night without being fed. For Mommy and Daddy, it's Miller time.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2143241/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Robert Wright</author>
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  <title>Does the end of the universe matter?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  My vague qualm about the unlikeliness of Kaku's lifeboat theory was considerably sharpened when I talked to J. Richard Gott III, an astrophysicist at Princeton University. Gott is known for making bold quantitative predictions about the longevity of things—from Broadway shows like Cats to America's space program to intelligent life in the universe. He bases these predictions on what he calls the Copernican Principle, which says, in essence: You're not special. "If life in the universe is going to last a long time, why do we find ourselves living when we do, only 13 billion years after the beginning?" Gott said to me, speaking in an improbable Tennessee accent whose register occasionally leapt up an octave, like Don Knotts'. "And it is a disturbing fact that we as a species have only been around for 200,000 years. If there are going to be many intelligent species descended from us flourishing in epochs far in the future, then why are we so lucky to be the first?" Doing a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, Gott determined that it was 95 percent likely that humanity would last more than 5,100 years but would die out before 7.8 million years (a longevity that, coincidentally, is quite similar to that of other mammal species, which tend to go extinct around 2 million years after appearing). Gott was not inclined to speculate on what might do us in—biological warfare? asteroid collision? nearby supernova? sheer boredom with existence? But he did leave me feeling that the runaway expansion of our universe, if real, was the least of our worries.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2143403/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3147" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3147" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Jim Holt</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:36:33 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The Unbinding: An exclusive Slate novel.</title>
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  <author>Walter Kirn</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:35:18 EST</pubDate>
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