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Ask a Poet We're trashing the universe with our space garbage! Is there anything poetry can do?
By Kristen Hoggatt
Pertinent & Impertinent Jordanian satellite TV is a chaotic mishmash of shows from around the globe. And a possible agent of world peace.
By Nathan Schneider
Bookslut Addiction memoirs are like opinions on how to cure addiction: Everybody's got one.
By Jessa Crispin
Ask a Poet I've got angst over turning 29. Help me, poetry — you're my last hope!
By Kristen Hoggatt
Noncanonical If there were doubts about rap in the early '80s, Run-DMC's 'Christmas in Hollis' erased them.
By Morgan Meis
Bookslut Who'd guess that a homemaking guide from 2008 would have a narrower world view than one from 1861?
By Jessa Crispin
The Good Life Can you learn to taste wine from a $130 kit? Well...
By Jason Wilson
Pertinent & Impertinent With talks like 'Jane Austen and Global Warming,' how can you not love the Austen Society's annual meeting?
By Paula Marantz Cohen
Life Science New research reveals why winter is chock full of such discontent.
By Jennifer Fisher Wilson
Something Personal Retracing a roadtrip of my youth via Segway, I realize that much has changed (beyond the invention of the Segway).
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
Idle Chatter Malcolm Gladwell, God bless him, wants to solve the problems he identifies in Outliers. But some problems can't be solved with a good story.
By Morgan Meis
Something Personal There's no place like home for the holidays. Unless that home is next to a Wendy's.
By Jesse Smith
Ask a Poet I worry that flu shots are used to implant tracking devices, but that's just me. What does a poet think?
By Kristen Hoggatt
The Naturalist Happy 140th birthday, dinosaur displays! You don't look a day over 65 million.
By Jesse Smith
Noncanonical The protagonist of E.T.A. Hoffman's 'The Sandman' can't go home again. Could you if you discovered your lover was a robot?
By Morgan Meis
Tony's Social Pages How did the French mark the end of the Terror? With parties, fashion, and 'dos, of course!
By Tony Perrottet
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Poe at 200
Two centuries after he was born, the creator of modern horror is taught in almost every school in America. How well is another matter completely...
By Nick Mamatas
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Miss Venezuela
Observations of the beauty pageant that produces more international winners than any other. Among them, angry mobs, bedazzled jeans, and free breast implants.
By Emily Maloney
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Fruit-Forward and Fungus
Do you trust your own taste? Can you describe truffles? Do you wear purple?
By Jason Wilson
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Help Wanted
I really want self-help books to work, but there are only so many affirmations I can write on my mirror.
By Jessa Crispin
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Dear John
Almost half the world lacks access to a commode. On World Toilet Day, we consider its impact on longevity, safety, education, and even tourism. (Bonus: Do you squat in the East or Southeast Asian manner?)
By Sara Blask
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Palate or Palette?
The unlikely relationship between modern art and modern cooking.
By Morgan Meis and Stefany Anne Golberg
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The Wrath of Khan
I was a waitress in Austin with a pot-growing boyfriend who wanted to get married. I needed a change, and Mongolia sounded like it'd be about as big a change as I could make. I was right.
By LeeAnn Marhevsky
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Chinese Take-Out
From the Olympics to urban explosion to the rowdiness of its people, a tour of China is like a trip back to 19th-century America.
By Paula Marantz Cohen
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A Hairy Predicament
Siberians once threw lice on visitors to show love. After getting lice myself, I can say Siberians had a weird definition of love.
By Jennifer Fisher Wilson
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A Giant Problem
The large mammals are our closest relatives. So why is our relationship with them so tense?
By Jesse Smith
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