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A blogger whose site was hacked decided to take matters into his own hands and interviewed the 17-year-old hacker to find out his motivation.
Scientists have developed an eco-friendly silicon air battery capable of working for thousands of hours before running out.
A recent brain scan study suggests that men and women respond differently to danger – with men primed to fight and women responding with emotion.
A college dedicated to growing marijuana has opened up in Michigan – the only required reading is “Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible”.
Just like the time Slate’s Jacob Weisberg invited me to join his Mafia family, his latest tweet made me think some wiseass had hacked his Twitter account: “If you’re looking […]
How many friends do you have who, under the “religious views” section of their Facebook profile, list “environmentalist,” “nature,” “mother earth,” “dirty hippy,” “dirt-worshiping treehugger,” or some variation thereof? Well, […]
Reporting from Mexico for the December issue of the The Atlantic, author Philip Caputo writes that “drug trafficking and its attendant corruption are a malignancy that has spread into Mexico’s […]
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Reihan Salam says the GOP can “win the working class and save the American Dream.” Will business and the working class really align, or are conservatives themselves dreaming?
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Could nanotechnology ever help us build nuclear plants at low cost? Or will we have to content ourselves with novelty items like “nano-pants”?
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If there’s one thing conservatism should conserve, it’s the rejection of government tinkering in favor of innovation at the margins.
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Reihan Salam believes the Indiana governor practices the “politics of honest tradeoffs” the President had sought to embody.
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Is the post-sexual-revolution man an improvement? Or does the “Mad Men” phenomenon signal nostalgia for something important we’re losing?
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What’s left of the male breadwinner stereotype may not survive the recession. The results won’t be pretty.
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Reihan Salam was raised informally as a Muslim, but isn’t particularly religious. So what brings out his “boosterish” zeal?
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For the conservative journalist, high school debate was a transformative experience. We asked which pundits make the most formidable arguments—from either side of the aisle.
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A conversation with the writer and fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Contrary to popular opinion, men are just as likely to suffer from depression than women—they just repress it, sometimes with fatal results.
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Males are less likely to make it through the embryonic state and more likely to develop a wealth of disorders and diseases.
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The masculine chromosome is unique in its inability to repair itself, making it exceptionally prone to mutation and pollution.
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A conversation with the professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University.