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4chan /b/: A new academic study of the influential message board (4chanomics)
A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
A Nation of Dwarves: Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought.
A Real War on Terrorism
Alain Touwaide searches for medicinal knowledge in ancient manuscripts.
Amazon Q4 profits fall 45 percent.
Amazon's zero profit business strategy: It's amazing, but someday we may all get screwed.
An Agnostic Manifesto
Apple variety flow chart: Which kind of apple should I choose for eating? Baking? Bobbing? Throwing?
Are the media being too mean to China?
Asiana Airlines crash: Stop blaming SFO’s runways and Korea’s pilots for Flight 214’s crash.
Authentocracy in America
Broadband access in the United States is even worse than you think.
Can we still see Goya's paintings the way he meant us to?
Claire Felicie’s photographs Marines’ faces before, during, and after Afghanistan.
Dangers of loneliness: Social isolation is deadlier than obesity.
Diabetes on the March: An interactive map
Does authenticity have to be dark and hopeless?
Don't Applaud the Motorcycle Diaries
Don’t Publicize Your Proposal the Pogue Way
Drink to That: What's the best way to help make the world's water supply safer?
El Bulli Serves Its Final Meal
Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
Gladwell and Surowiecki Correspond on Slate
Google has a single towering obsession: It wants to build the Star Trek computer.
Google Ideas: The company's latest venture into the world of philanthropy.
Google Reader joins graveyard of dead Google products
GOP lawmaker who wants to arm teachers accidently shot a cop playing one during a training drill.
Gun-death tally: Every American gun death since Newtown Sandy Hook shooting (INTERACTIVE).
How big is a 10-alarm fire?
How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty?
How Gmail destroyed Outlook
How OWS confuses and ignores Fox News and the pundit class.
I Want It Today: How the e-commerce giant will destroy local retail.
ICANN, Make a Difference: ICANN’s gTLD auction proceeds should be used to bring mesh technologies to Africa.
If the FCC had regulated the Internet: A counterfactual history of cyberspace.
If Your House Is Built On Land Expropriated From Its Indigenous Inhabitants—You Didn't Build That
Internet privacy: How network analysis can reveal details you would rather hide.
Is Airbnb illegal? Why hotels are so upset about you renting a bedroom to a stranger.
Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll
JFK pressured 19-year-old mistress to perform oral sex, do drugs
Jonah Lehrer plagiarism in Wired.com: An investigation into plagiarism, quotes, and factual inaccuracies.
Kate Middleton's wedding gown and Wikipedia's gender gap.
Libertarians With Antlers
Literature's First Unreliable Narrator
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life
Michael Crichton’s Micro and how scientists talk to the public.
NASA touts Curiosity data that points to historic discovery.
New MacBook Pro: Apple’s latest laptop is the greatest, and perhaps final, version of the personal computer
NSA surveillance: The rest of the Snowden files should be destroyed.
Padma Lakshmi's custody battle: Adam Dell's lawsuit is unseemly.
Pundit Scorecard: Checking pundits’ predictions against the actual results of the presidential election.
Raw Food Diary
RSC Fires Derek Khanna
Sebastian Thrun and Udacity: Distance learning is unsuccessful for most students.
Slate Explains Logan Act
Slate on Eyeballs
Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. (xlnt)
Ten Reasons To Worship Rebecca West
The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America”
The Best Reason Yet To Ditch Gmail
The four most useful lessons of Columbine
The Gang of Five, and How They Nearly Ruined Us
The Geek Freaks (great critique)
The Google black hole
The Internet's Secret Back Door: Web users in the United Arab Emirates have more to worry about than having just their BlackBerries cracked.
The Madonna Code
The mesmerizing UPS whiteboard ads.
The Mirror of History
The productivity paradox: Why hasn't the Internet helped the American economy grow more?
The Quantico Circuit Caper
The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners
The Trump Implosion: A Live Blog
The United States of Inequality
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary.
The Wrong Stuff
Tornado in Missouri: Why disasters are becoming more frequent, and what we can do about it.
War-Gamed
Where Do I Start With Alice Munro?
Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise.
Why is prostitution illegal?
Why is the Army losing so many talented midlevel officers?
Why Stephen Ambrose Is a Vampire
Will Netflix destroy the Internet?
World population may actually start declining, not exploding.
Yitang Zhang, twin primes conjecture: A huge discovery about prime numbers—and what it means for the future of math.

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