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Why We’ll Never Stop Mourning the American Mall
Share Comment For most of my life, the shopping mall was the symbol of the capitalist experiment. Everything about it celebrated consumerism and the illusion of…
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In 2001, a Mysterious Invention Became a Viral Sensation—Then Went Down in Flames. I’ve Always Wondered: Was It All My Fault?
In January of 2001, a startup news website broke a huge technology story: A charismatic millionaire was secretly developing an incredible invention, one that…
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Want to Parent the German Way? You Can’t.
This fun new book about how Germans raise their kids will break American parents’ hearts.
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Stowaway Continues an Argument Sci-Fi Fans Have Been Having for Decades
There’s a long, and problematic, history behind Stowaway.
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We’re Already Colonizing Mars
This is the way colonization starts: not with comfy habitats and astronauts, but with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes.
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Roberts Isn’t a Liberal. He’s a Perfectionist Who Wants to Win.
Chief Justice John Roberts departs the Senate chamber on Feb. 5 in Washington. Mario Tama/Getty Images While this Supreme Court term is not yet over, it is…
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Living on the Streets of L.A.
The inexplicable randomness of being homeless was familiar to me, but the scale of it was something new.
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“I’ll Knock Your Brains Out”: The Rowdy Tourist Family Currently Carving a Trail of Destruction Through New Zealand
Would that we all had the swagger of an angry, shirtless 9-year-old giving the finger.
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I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You.
Real coding is the difficult task of creating something unique.
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There Will Never Be an Honest Conversation About Nancy Pelosi as a Political Leader
Gender bias makes it impossible to have fair discussions about women in politics.
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Neil Gorsuch Just Telegraphed His Plan to Let Trump Sabotage the Census
Instead of sticking to his principles, Gorsuch is running interference for the Trump administration.
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Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Which Means Science Is Broken.
The scientist couldn't have foreseen the crisis his research would touch off.
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Why Don’t Hotels Give You Toothpaste? An Investigative Report.
A few weeks ago, I spent a night at the Kendall Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., a congenial place done up in a firehouse theme with an atrium on the top flo ...
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A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet: They’re Sleeping
Just a power nap in the timescale of the universe.
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Why Do People Hate Hillary Clinton So Much?
In 1996, the New Yorker published “Hating Hillary,” Henry Louis Gates’ reported piece on the widespread animosity for the then–First Lady. “Like horse- ...
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America's ancient cave art: Mysterious drawings, thousands of years old, offer a glimpse of lost Native American cultures and traditions. - By John Jeremiah Sullivan - Slate Magazine
The following essay is excerpted from the latest issue of the Paris Review. This excerpt is available online only in Slate. To read the complete versio ...
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Theory of mind and the belief in God. - By Jesse Bering - Slate Magazine
The scientific jury is still out on whether our species is unique among social mammals in being able to conceptualize mental states—other species, such ...
