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December 16, 2013
Eric Sasson
There's a Wonder Drug That Prevents HIV Infection. Why Haven't You Heard of It?
December 13, 2013
Alice Robb
Why Is Rudolph's Nose Red?
It's probably parasites. Or cocaine.
December 12, 2013
Alice Robb
Should Chimps Be Granted Legal Personhood?
December 10, 2013
Alice Robb
The Game Theory Behind Mandela's Negotiations to End Apartheid
December 9, 2013
Alice Robb
Psychoanalyst on Bill Clinton's Doodles: "He Looks Like He's Crying Out for Help"
December 6, 2013
Alice Robb
Stop Giving Multiple-Choice Tests, and Start Letting Robots Grade Students' Essays
December 5, 2013
Julia Fisher
Mexico's Radioactive-Material Thieves Are Probably Dying Right Now, In Exactly This Way
December 5, 2013
Jerry A. Coyne
Einstein’s Famous Quote About Science and Religion Didn’t Mean What You Were Taught
The scientist actually offers no solace to believers
December 3, 2013
Alice Robb
Do Smarter People Drink More?
December 2, 2013
Alice Robb
Our IQs Are Climbing, But We’re Not Getting Smarter
November 26, 2013
Alice Robb
There's a Mouse Crisis in Scientific Research
November 22, 2013
Jerry A. Coyne
Amazing Sculptures of Insects Made from Old Mechanical Parts
Edouard Martinet turns motorcycle headlights and umbrella ribs into beautiful living things
November 19, 2013
Alice Robb
Do You Really Remember Where You Were When JFK Was Shot?
November 18, 2013
Deepak Chopra, Jerry A. Coyne
Deepak Chopra Responds to Pseudoscience Allegations. Jerry Coyne Fires Back.
November 15, 2013
Alice Robb
China's One-Child Policy Has Had Some Surprising Consequences for Kids
November 15, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Watch the World's Forests Disappear On Google Earth
November 8, 2013
Jerry A. Coyne
Pseudoscientist Rupert Sheldrake Is Not Being Persecuted, And Is Not Like Galileo
October 29, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Interview: Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies
The famed atheist talks about the Pope, fiction, and why Jews win Nobel Prizes
October 23, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
This Is How You Should Talk to a Climate-Change Denier
The complicated science of discussing risk
September 27, 2013
Steven Pinker, Leon Wieseltier
Science vs. the Humanities, Round III

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