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July 10 2012 11:05 AMCo-Founder of The Frogs Missing, Presumed DeadBen Johnson
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July 9 2012 4:05 PMGeorge Will: Record Heat Waves and Drought Are Just Summer, “Get Over It”Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 5 2012 6:41 PMSan Diego Fireworks Display: 20 Minutes Blows Up in 15 SecondsBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 5 2012 3:50 PMCooperation Trumps Competition Among Some Monkeys, Says StudyBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 3 2012 5:12 PMDromoticons: Terrifying Machines Illustrated With a KeyboardBen Johnson
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July 3 2012 4:32 PMMegaUpload Founder Kim Dotcom: Winning in Court and the Court of Public OpinionBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 2 2012 11:20 PMScientists Use Sound To Project Images on Screens Made of Soap BubblesBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 29 2012 3:34 PMMind-Reader Machine Lets You Type With Your BrainBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 28 2012 3:04 PMGoogle's Project Glass Goes Sky DivingBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 27 2012 3:29 PMColorado Springs’ Waldo Canyon Wildfire Forces Evacuation of 32,000Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 27 2012 8:29 AMWhy Radiohead Should Stop TouringBen Johnson
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June 26 2012 3:43 PMChrome’s Awesome Lego Building Application Will Ruin Your ProductivityBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 25 2012 2:27 PMApple Alters Website Language About Security in Wake of Flashback Trojan VirusBen Johnson
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June 22 2012 7:32 PMA Factory Future For Humans and RobotsBen Johnson
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June 22 2012 2:05 PMNintendo Announces 3DS XL in Hopes of Bigger, Better SalesBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 10 2012 1:18 AMOpportunity Rover Delivers Amazing Hi-Res Mars Panorama Made From 817 ImagesBen Johnson
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July 9 2012 1:39 PMDNS Changer Malware: FBI Shutting Down Internet for Thousands TodayBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 5 2012 6:28 PMJonathan Krohn Responds to Attacks From Conservative Former FansBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 5 2012 3:24 PMMini iPad Coming This Year, According to ReportBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 3 2012 5:06 PM Barclays Executive Bob Diamond Also Resigning From Mitt Romney FundraiserBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 3 2012 2:36 PMOur Record-Breaking Summer: A Glimpse of Global Warming and Climate ChangeBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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July 2 2012 1:25 PMWill CERN Scientists Confirm the Higgs Boson This Week?Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 29 2012 1:15 PMWe're in for More Wildfires Than Ever. These New Technologies Will Help Fight Them.Ben Johnson
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June 28 2012 2:46 PMObamacare Upheld, President Says He Pushed Because It’s “Good for the American People”Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 27 2012 2:25 PMGoogle I/O: Nexus Tablet, Jelly Bean, and MoreBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 26 2012 4:50 PMDARPA Scientists Create Superfast Wi-Fi That Attaches Information to Light BeamsBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 25 2012 4:07 PMDespite Some of the Worst Wildfires in Years, Utah Can’t Regulate Target ShootingBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 25 2012 1:44 PMGiant Tortoise Lonesome George, Last of His Kind, Found DeadBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 22 2012 3:27 PMBird Flu: Just a Few Mutations Away From a Potential Pandemic?Ben Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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June 21 2012 7:15 PMSigns of Water Discovered in Moon’s Shackleton CraterBen Johnson and Slate Video Staff
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Politics
Oct. 24 2014 8:39 PM
Bad Habits
Why October’s campaign attacks explain next year’s political dysfunction.
John Dickerson
The Democrats’ Best Hope to Keep a Senate Majority Is Iowa’s Bruce … Something-or-Other
The Courts’ Baffling New Math of Abortion and Voting
Where Does ISIS Get Its Money? And How Much Does it Have Left?
#MuckReads: Lead Poisoning, Toxic Weed Killer, and Other Things That Will Make You Sick
Israel’s Defense Minister Talks Hamas, ISIS, Syria, and Iran
Inside the Murky World of Beijing’s Expat Drug Dealers
Business Insider
Oct. 26 2014 6:30 AM
Inside Wall Street's New Tug of War
Linette Lopez
Surprising Findings About Introverts in the Workplace
Go to This Site Right Now and Check If Someone Owes You Money
Don’t Get Used to Mobile Apps—Their Days Are Obviously Numbered
Why a Professor Is Teaching an Entire Class About Beyoncé
Amazon Investors Decide Losing Money Might Not Be Great for Business After All
Get an Inside Look at the Massive Data Centers Behind Google
Inside Higher Ed
Oct. 26 2014 7:22 AM
What’s Happening With Free Tuition in Chile?
President Michelle Bachelet’s plan to make higher education free hits some snags.
Alex Usher
Longform: Open Letters from Martin Luther King Jr. and Philip Roth
Be Warned: The Next Big Trend in Men’s Fashion Is Dressing Like a Hippie
These Apartments Were Designed to Induce Immortality
Japanese Designers Give the Ordinary Rubber Band a Hip Makeover
Dressing in Drag for Halloween? You’re Probably Doing It Wrong.
4 Features From Other Languages That We Wish English Had
The XX Factor
Oct. 24 2014 4:42 PM
Jewish Women Forced to Use Tiny Torah and Magnifying Glass to Celebrate Bat Mitzvah
Miriam Krule
Some Light Emotional Sharing With Amy Poehler
“Men’s Rights” Group Tries To Lure Visitors Away From Anti–Domestic Violence Website
Online Misogyny Levels Up as Gamergate Targets Gawker
Watch Little Princesses Curse for the Feminist Cause
Poker Games and Male Mentors: The Culture of Business in Tech Is Not Great for Women
Three Ways Your Text Messages Change After You Get Married
Tv Club
Oct. 24 2014 10:20 AM
The American Horror Story: Freak Show Podcast, Episode 3
The “Edward Mordrake (Part 1)” edition.
J. Bryan Lowder and Willa Paskin
Aisha Harris’ Recommended Reading From Slate This Week
Slate’s Working Podcast, Episode 2 Transcript: On Being a Doctor When Your Patients Are Poor
Slate’s Walking Dead Podcast: Listen to Slate-sters Recap Episodes 1 and 2
What David Plotz Learned From His Podcast Series on Working
Behold
Oct. 26 2014 11:02 AM
What Different Countries Look at for Target Practice
Jordan G. Teicher
Panda Bear’s New Song Is a Psychedelic Vision of What Pop Can Be
Is Birdman a Virtuoso Masterpiece or Hollow, Pretentious Filmmaking? We Debate.
Taylor Swift’s 1989: A Track-by-Track Breakdown
Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels Talk Writing, Rap Regionalism, and Cat Sounds
Why David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Is a Great Horror Film
Watch a Hitchcock Tribute That Includes Every Single One of His Surviving Films
Future Tense
Oct. 24 2014 5:46 PM
Google Senior VP Jumps From Stratosphere, Beats Red Bull’s Space-Diving Record
Lily Hay Newman
There Might Be a Way to Securely Reuse Abandoned Email Addresses
Does the Internet Sleep? Depends on Where You Are.
How to Be More Productive During Your Commute
South Florida Is Leaving the Rest of the State One Way or Another
There Is a Porn Monopoly, and Its Name Is Mindgeek
What Would the United States of Reddit Look Like Mapped?
New Scientist
Oct. 26 2014 9:06 AM
The Most Reprehensible Black Market
Fake or weak malaria drugs could cost millions of lives.
Curtis Abraham
Spectacular Cloud Colors (Photo)
The Strongest Organism on Earth Isn’t an Ant
STUNNING Video Promoting Space Exploration ... and It's Not What You Expect
Watch Animals Watching Themselves in Mirrors. What Do They Think They See?
Why Ebola Won’t Go Airborne
Gallery: The Partial Solar Eclipse of October 2014
Sports Nut
Oct. 20 2014 5:09 PM
Keepaway, on Three. Ready—Break!
On his record-breaking touchdown pass, Peyton Manning couldn’t even leave the celebration to chance.
Chris Wade and A.J. McCarthy
The 2014 Kansas City Royals Show the Value of Building a Mediocre Baseball Team
How Relief Pitching Has Changed Baseball
Simone Biles Is the Best Gymnast in the World, and It’s Not Even Close
Baseball’s Strike Zone Is Getting Bigger Every Year. Will Someone Shrink It Back Down to Size?
Happy Baseball Fans Stormed the Field As Far Back As the 1920s. Why’d They Stop? (Video.)
A New U.S. Map Based on Where Baseball Players Were Born