Interesting+Articles+from+2011

Interesting Articles that I have read in 2011:
BOOKS * BUSINESS * COMMUNICATION * CULTURE * EVOLUTION * FOOD * FUNNY STUFF * HEALTH&EXERCISE LANGUAGE * LEARNING * MIND * PERSUASION * POLITICS * RELATIONSHIPS * SCIENCE * SEX * TECH * WRITING

[|Have we met? Tracing the origins of face blindness]

[|Catchphrase Executioner-Bad sex jargon, horrible “occupy” jokes, and other terrible things we said this year.]

The Atlantic: Study of the Day: [|There Are No Winners in an Overcrowded Mall]

NYT: [|Crusaders Take Page, and Outfits, From Comics]

NYT: [|10 Things Job Applicants Should Know]

[|What is College For?]

[|Why women need fat]--Evolution shows that women's dieting beliefs aren't just unrealistic -- they're unnatural. An expert explains

Atlantic: [|How Walmart Is Changing China]

Atlantic: [|All the Single Ladies]

NYT: [|From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model]

NYT: [|As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some are Content to Sit Out]

[|Hearing Bilingual--How Babies Sort Out Language]

[|Is there a genius in all of us?]

[|The Effect Effect--Daniel Kahneman and the language of popular psychology.]

[|The loud American I swore I’d never be]--When I moved from Canada people mocked me for my "aboots." I promised I wouldn't change. I was wrong

[|The New Full-Frontal--Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?]

[|More college women speak in creaks, thanks to pop stars]

[|What we eat is bumming us out, new book says]--'The Happiness Diet' explores the link between food and mood

NYT: [|Online Learning, Personalized--Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach with Classrooms]

[|Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence]

[|10 Gifts For People Who Sit In Front Of a Computer All Day]

[|Why people with a sweet tooth are just generally sweeter people]

[|Four Excellent Habits--The subtle skills that will give you a permanent edge in shaping your career or starting a new one.]

[|Advice to job market newbies] Dress appropriately, don't surf the web all day, and think twice before posting drunken shots on Facebook

[|What if there were rules for Science Journalism?]

NYT: [|In "Game of Thrones," a language to make the world feel real]

[|The Mouse Trap--The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.] Part 1 of a 3 part series.

Smithsonian: [|The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right--How do humans separate sarcasm from sincerity? Research on the subject is leading to insights about how the mind works. Really]

NYT: [|Profiles in Science--Steven Pinker]

[|Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms]

[|Chinese Smog Disaster Rouses Chinese Media]

NYT:[| Software that Listens for Lies]

NYT: [|How Exercise Benefits the Brain]

NYT: [|Teaching Good Sex]

NYT: [|Sorry, Strivers--Talent Matters]

NYT: [|Willpower--It’s in Your Head]

NYT: [|The Hoarder in You--It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff]

[|Why we invented monsters] How our primate ancestors shaped our obsession with terrifying creatures

[|“The Lord of the Rings,” “Twilight,” and Young-Adult Fantasy Books]

Read more [|http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/12/05/111205crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1fe1ESn9x] [|Don’t believe the sex addiction hype]

NYT: [|A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day]

[|Why we forget] Science shows our memory can easily be distorted and erased -- but our forgetfulness also helps us survive

NYT: [|100 Notable Books of 2011]

NYT: [|The Once and Future Way to Run]

NYT: [|Picking Brand Names in China is a Business Itself]

NYT: [|Aging Well Through Exercise]

[|Ape hand gestures reveal where humans evolved language]

[|The evolution of deceit] New discoveries show that fibs and self-deception are central to our evolutionary strategy. An expert explains

[|How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation]

[|Diabetes a growing threat to young and slim--Seemingly fit females increasingly at risk due to 'skinny-fat' condition]

[|Being too polite to your waitress may cost you money]

[|Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)]

[|How music changes our brains] Science is becoming increasingly interested in the relationship between sound and the brain. An expert explains

[|Google Translate: It Already Speaks as Well as a 10-Year-Old. How Good Can it Get?]

[|Solving America’s teen sex problem]--The Dutch have dramatically reduced adolescent pregnancies, abortions and STDs. What do they know that we don't?

NYT: [|Stuff That Defines Us]--History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum [|BBC History of the World Homepage] [|BBC History of the World Podcasts]

[|Is porn ruining our love lives?] It's destroying Cindy Gallop's romps with men raised on smut. Now she's calling for sexual re-education

[|How cellphone cameras shape OWS] These videos have helped protesters create their own narratives and hold the police accountable

[|Why are most people right-handed?]

[|Can 17-Year-Olds Vote in Mississippi?] The weirder implications of Mississippi’s anti-abortion amendment declaring fetuses to be people.

NYT: [|Study Shows Why It’s Hard to Keep Weight Off]

[|There’s the Wrong Way and Jacques Pépin’s Way]

NYT Op: [|The Power of Positive Coaching]

[|America Needs Broadly Educated Citizens, Even Anthropologists]--The president of Arizona State University explains why Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s emphasis on practical education is short-sighted.

[|Make a Matchstick Rocket]

[|Sophie's World - An Eventful Affair with a Vixen] Winner of the Fritz Pölking Award 2011

[|IQ 'can change in teenage years'] [|How Can You Increase Your IQ?] Stay in school (or just play some memory games).

[|Bitter Brew--I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.]

[|Slide show: Homemade posters from Occupy Wall Street] [|Is this video “Occupy Wall Street Gone Wild”?] [|“Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street” creator defends film] In a q-and-a on Salon, Steven Greenstreet discussed his motivations -- and critiqued the angry response from women [|Lemony Snicket’s “observations” on Occupy Wall Street] http://occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket [|Occupation and realignment] How a real leftist movement could create a new center in American politics

[|The Necessity, and Elusiveness, of Sleep]

[|From Dung Power to Solar Power--How billions without electrical access will benefit from clean energy.]

===[|Introducing //**Slate**//’s Negotiation Academy--A series of short podcasts to teach you the basic rules for getting the best deal.]=== [|Schmoozing as Strategy: **//Slate//**’s Negotiation Academy--Episode 2 of our series on haggling like the pros.] Episode 3: [|The Art and Trickery of Persuasion] Episode 4: [|The Ticking Clock and Other Physical Tactics] Episode 5: [|Negotiating with Jerks and Liars] Episode 6: [|Closing the Deal] The Gender Divide: [|**//Slate//**’s Negotiation Academy Episode 7] Location, Location, Negotiation: [|Slate's Negotiation Academy Episode 8] Episode 9: [|Negotiating with Kids] Episode 10: [|Negotiating for Salary]

[|What Parkinson’s Teaches Us About the Brain] Forced Exercise's effect on the brain

[[http://io9.com/5850293/10-words-you-might-think-came-from-science-but-are-really-from-science-fiction|10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction  )]]

[|Go Slow To Go Fast--Why highways move more swiftly when you force cars to crawl along at 55 mph.]

[|What kind of bottled water tastes the best?]

[|Does Absence Actually Make the Heart Grow Fonder?] A new book suggests that getting away from each other for prolonged periods of time is good for the health of your marriage.

[|More bad supplement news--Vitamin E may be risky for prostate]

[|Scientists Turn Brain Activity Into Moving Images]--U.C.-Berkeley researchers tap into technology that may one day allow for rewatching your dreams.

[|Attention Must Be Paid--How the Internet is changing how people listen.] Interesting example of a definition paper.

NYT Op-Ed about Yoga: [|How Garbo Learned to Stand on Her Head]

NYT Op-Ed: [|No More Adventures in Wonderland]

Endangered Dragon:[|As Its Economy Sprints Ahead, China’s People Are Left Behind]

[|My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling]**:** Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching.

[|Puns, Puzzles, and Easter eggs in Margaret Atwood’s //The Handmaid’s Tale//] [|For the Love of Science Fiction--Margaret Atwood’s]//[|In Other Worlds]: SF and the Human Imagination//.

[|Mind-blowing sex actually can wipe memory clean]

[|What caused the wealth gap?] Protesters are furious over America's growing income disparity. Economist Jeffrey Sachs explains where it came from

[|Should We Clone Endangered Species?]

[|South Korean airport fights drug smugglers with cloned dogs]

[|Ahmadinejad's Nightmare--Does homosexuality exist in every human society?] Most of the article is about secluded societies without the concept of homosexuality.

[|America's secular revival]: Five signs that, despite the GOP's efforts, religion's impact on U.S. politics will soon decline

[|Books that deserve to be banned] : Some interesting discussion about books that should or should not be on a high school reading list

[|A Guide To Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books] [|A New "Recommendation Engine" for Science Fiction Books]

[|Not Sharing Is Caring--Facebook's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web.]

[|Want some free, anonymous health care? Try your local U.S. Health Department.]

[|"Teleported" mice reveal secrets of memory]

0 PM [|What’s so bad about sugar?] Article really misses the point on the recent findings about the negative effects of sugar, some interesting comments, but the comments also show some misunderstanding on what the issues are.

[|No evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed] Lots of disagreement with the article in the comments section

[|Baboons are capable of understanding analogies]

NYT Op-Ed: [|If It Feels Right ...]

NYT: [|Allowing Teenage Boys to Love Their Friends]

NYT Opinion: [|The Trouble With Homework] Interesting. So how much homework do our students do, and how can we make them do more productive homework?

NYT Op-Ed: [|How to Stop the Drop in Verbal Scores]

NYT Opinion: [|Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril]

NYT Opinion: [|Egghead and Blockheads]

NYT Op-Ed: [|Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?]

Street Photographer Suggests There's No Such Thing as Unique

[|How to light steel on fire]

[|Are all artificial sweeteners equal?]

[|10 Crazy Science Experiments That Wound Up In Your Kitchen]

[|Is Netflix As Dumb As It Seems?The strange logic of the company's decision to divide itself in half.]

[|China's soaring costs could help American jobs]

[|Alzheimer's link another reason to fear diabetes]

[|The After-Wife--Pat Robertson says Alzheimer's can justify divorce because your spouse is "gone." Is he right]?

[|Who Killed 3-D]? A box-office whodunit.

[|Great Social Networks Steal--In praise of Facebook's thievery.]

[|In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for] $5

[|The Question-Driven Life]: Interesting bio or profile example [|Unsavory Culinary Elitism]: Could have students learn who the people are and what their shows are like [|The Kids Are Not All Right]: students can examine how to make the support stronger for this article / look for logical fallacies like begging the question

[|A vegetarian's guide to talking to carnivores]--Updated: If you decide to quit eating meat, you'll need to brace yourself for these absurd arguments

[|Cryptophasia--The secrets of twin speak.]

[|Are There Hidden Messages in Pronouns? James Pennebaker says computers reveal secret patterns.]

[|Who's Afraid of Digital Natives? Let's not get intimidated by kids and their Internet savvy.]

[|'Psychic Benefits' and the NBA Lockout]--The author of The Tipping Point explains why owning a basketball franchise has always been a bad business — and ought to stay that way

[|Scientists have recorded the first experimental evidence that elephants experience //eureka!// moments]

[|Black Death study lets rats off the hook]--Plague of 1348-49 spread so fast in London the carriers had to be humans not black rats, says archaeologist

[|Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy--His folksy lectures are revolutionizing how kids learn math and science.] http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.khanacademy.org/video/statistics--the-average?playlist=Statistics

[|That's So Mysto--What makes slang stick?]

[|Print vs. Online--The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.]

[|How to Beat the High Costs of Dialing Abroad]

[|Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade]

[|How Exercise Can Keep the Brain Fit]

[|The Scent of a Woman--Don't trust the hype about pheromones and sexual attraction.]

[|All the President's Memes--Why Obama gets so much love on the Internet.]

[|As Chinese Visit Taiwan, the Cultural Influence Is Subdued]

[|A soothing voice can change your hormones…but a text message won’t]

[|How the hot dog became the most American food--Served everywhere from Coney Island to the FDR White House, the wiener has come to symbolize our way of life]

[|Not your imagination--Kids today really are less creative, study says]

[|Dog becomes local celebrity for his math skills]

[|Mass grave reveals 1,000 year old Viking massacre]

[|Our favorite summer foods, explained]

[|Can a redesign make us eat better? A look at the creative process behind the colorful new FDA nutrition labels]

[|Eggs, two meals a day -- I'd finally learned to embrace this cheap protein. Then my mother-in-law brought us seven cartons of them]

[|The disappearing fish we should worry about -- How Virginia's permissive legislation is destroying the menhaden -- and the Atlantic's ecosystem]

[|The dirty words we dare not say--My parents instilled in me a bone-deep hatred of gross terminology. It makes being a grown-up tricky sometimes]

[|How Was The Joker Potty Trained? Mental Health Experts Psychoanalyze Batman Villains]

[|Being Tony Plush--Finding redemption through Nyjer Morgan's gentleman alter ego.]

[|What a Copycat]--Why do we call imitators "cats"? Why not monkeys?

[|Slowpoke-How to be a faster writer.]

[|Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy]: His folksy lectures are revolutionizing how kids learn math and science.

[|Lying is part of child's development, study confirms]

[|Chimps prove that human generosity is an ancient trait]

[|Half of men would dump woman who got fat]:But only 20 percent of women surveyed said they'd ditch a dude who gained weight http://www.askmen.com/specials/great_male_survey/lifestyle.html [|www.askmen.com/specials/great_female_survey]

Get a Room! [|Is Airbnb a fad, or will it revolutionize the way you travel]?

[|Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers]

[|Coin tosses don’t really give you fifty-fifty odds]

[|Why no one hears the ocean in a sea shell]

[|How Chocolate Can Help Your Workout]

[|The Doctor and the Pomegranate:] [|Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it.]

[|Go Ahead, Eat Chocolate for Breakfast:] [|Why the lawsuit against Nutella is bunk.]

[|Some Researchers Say Coffee Is Good for You; Others Say It's Bad. Who's Right?]

Bad Food? [|Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables]

[|Can a Playground Be Too Safe?]

[| Still Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated]

[|How to turn an orange peel into a mini-flamethrower]

[|Great Character Descriptions from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books]

[|Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds]

[|New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test]

[|John Next Door] [|Are porn watchers the same as johns]? A new study conflates paying for prostitutes with indulging in mainstream and legal sexual entertainment [|If You Want To Outlaw Prostitution, You're Going To Have To Do Better Than This]

[|Today in Hollywood-Induced Sex Panics] [|A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond Happiness]

[|Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas]

[|Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media]

[|Peer pressure can actually change your memories]

[|Middle Earth Map Dress]

[|Sitting is destroying your body]

[|Now you can buy groceries using augmented reality, in South Korean subway stations]

[|Sophie’s Choice and Other Choice Choices]

[|Men Are From Cuddle, Women Are From Penis--] [|A new study supposedly says women want sex but men want cuddling. Don't believe it.]

[|Read My Lisp--] [|Is Michele Bachmann's husband gay? Don't trust gaydar to settle the question.]

[|Questioning the Inca Paradox--] [|Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?]

[|Which Is Worse for a Child's Development—Exposure to Graphic Sex or Appalling Violence?]

[|Diet sodas don't help with dieting]

[|Google unveils next social network feat] [|Google+ faces uphill climb vs. Facebook]

[|Urinating chimp uses awesomely disgusting strategy to get a snack]

[|Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas]

[|Art that turns our childhood stories into dark, twisted fun]

[|Hammock naps are the best, research proves]

[|How Sugar Affects Your Brain and Body]

[|The Bilingual Advantage]: Interview with Ellen Bialystok. By CLAUDIA DREIFUS: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

[|Nicholas D. Kristof: Our Fantasy Nation?]: By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF: If Republicans seek a country with low taxes, little regulation and traditional family values, I have the perfect place for them. Body armor suggested.

[|Your Name Impacts How Others Judge You] [|What Does Your Name Tell Others About You?]

[|A Good Night’s Sleep Isn’t a Luxury; It’s a Necessity]: By JANE E. BRODY. There always seems to be something keeping us awake.

[|Your So-Called Education]: NY Times op-ed.

[|Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.]: NY Times op-ed.

[|Sugar may be sapping your memory]

[|The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".] : The period outside the quotation marks is //not// a copy error.

[|Coaching and Much More for Chinese Students Looking to U.S.]

[|A Memory Tonic for the Aging Brain]: As we grow older, we forget things like where we parked the car. Exercise can sharpen our recall.

[|Basic Technology Made Easier, Volume One - _ State of the Art] [|25 More Tech Tips and Tricks]: Another batch of tech tips to save you time and effort. [|Four Ways to Make Your Battery Last Longer]: How to make your iPhone battery last a lot longer? About a minute of maintenance. [| Pogue's Posts]: The latest in technology from the Times’s David Pogue, with a new look.

Cloud Girlfriend: [|I’m Not Real, but Neither Are You]

[|Superbrands' success fuelled by sex, religion and gossip]

[|The Rosslyn code]: A 500-year-old message in stone. The real mystery lurking in the chapel where Dan Brown set //The Da Vinci Code//.

[|Science reveals what you need to do to talk people into anything]

[|Foods With Benefits, or So They Say]

David Brooks / [|Nice guys finish first]:Because humans thrive by cooperating

[|Kicking Up a Stink. On eating cheese in China.]

[|The Twitter Trap]: What thinking in 140 characters does to our brains.

[|Prophecy Fail]: What happens to a doomsday cult when the world doesn't end?

[|Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media]: A small but growing cadre of educators is trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion.

[|Lie to me: Scientifically proven ways to catch a liar]

[|Add sugar to your antibiotics and crush superbugs]

[|Curses] : Are there really more accidents on Friday the 13th?

[|Cool Story, Bro!] : A meme for our information-saturated moment.

[|Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer]: Test your strategy against the computer in this rock-paper-scissors game illustrating basic artificial intelligence.

[|A Fruit With a Future]: Suddenly dragon fruit, the cactus-bred curio, is appearing in too many places to count.

[| ‘Disease of Kings’ Trickles Down to the Rest]: The number of Americans with gout is rising steadily as the population ages, becomes heavier and is exposed to foods that can precipitate the disorder in susceptible people.

[| Neanderthals and Early Humans May Not Have Mingled Much]: Carbon dating shows that Neanderthals didn’t last as long as thought, throwing into doubt the idea that they may have interbred with early humans.

[|Care to share?] : The pros and cons of sharing our private lives online

[|18 and Under: Fixated by Screens, but Seemingly Nothing Else]: Is a child’s ability to stay focused on TV or a video game, though not on anything else, a cause or an effect of attention problems — or both?

[|Op-Ed Contributor : Hitting the Bottle]: Manufacturers might be removing BPA, a chemical used to harden certain plastics, from their products. But they are substituting chemicals that may be just as dangerous.

[|How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?]: For most of us, eight hours of sleep is excellent and six hours is no good, but what if we split the difference?

[|What’s the Single Best Exercise?]: Ask a dozen physiologists which exercise is best, and you’ll get a dozen wildly divergent replies.

[|In China, Fear of Fake Eggs and ‘Recycled’ Buns]

[|Chimpanzees' 66 gestures revealed]

[|The words that could unlock your child]

[|Good-night, teen. Too little sleep can harm young brains]: New research links groggy kids to cognitive problems, obesity and depression

[|Sleep-deprived brain cells take tiny catnaps]

[|Cats of War]: The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed.

[|Technology Advances; Humans Supersize]

[|Is Sugar Toxic?] [|What is the metabolic syndrome?] [|What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?]

[|Manners for the Digital Age]: Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe help you navigate the etiquette of new technology.

[|That’s what she said: software that tells dirty jokes]

[|Killer Apps: Translate Languages on the Spot!] [|Farhad Manjoo reviews the latest augmented-reality apps for your phone.]

[|Another Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish]

[|Speaking multiple languages can give you multiple personalities]

[|Why a few 'ums' and 'ers' actually help children learn language]

[|With Liposuction, the Belly Finds What the Thighs Lose]: A study on liposuction confirms the patient’s worst fears: that weight loss is temporary.

[|The Case for Cursive] [|Is Cursive Dead?] [|Not on your life.]

[|Fried snacks top unhealthy list: survey]

http://www.yourtango.com/experts/charles-j-orlando/why-women-cheat-married-man-goes-undercover-ashley-madison

[|Will Cam Newton Be a Bust?] The speech analysts at Achievement Metrics reveal whether the No. 1 pick is in the "quadrant of doom." [|Turning Words Into Touchdowns] [|Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL?]

[|You're All Nuts!] How America became the land of Truthers, Triggers, Birthers, and Dan Brown fans.

[|Saying "I love you" is a matter of evolutionary economics]

[|What if Batman’s sidekick starred in The Catcher in the Rye?]


 * [|Monk brains]** Scanning meditation may reveal the science of tranquility

[|Scientists figure out how to test Neanderthals for left or right handedness]

[|Let X Units of Freedom Ring] [|How do you quantify a country's liberty?]

[|A Revolutionary Way To Grow Tomatoes!] [|Why you should plant everything in a homemade EarthTainer.]

[|Dear Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary] [|Time to get your shittle together]

[|Language universality idea tested with biology method] [|'Oldest English words' identified] [|Are dying languages worth saving?]

[|Massive taxonomic chart breaks down the superpowers of 200+ comic characters]

[|Why we really can judge people on first impressions]

The Body Odd - Why multitasking gets harder as we get older

[|Language may have developed for the first and only time 100,000 years ago]

[|The Cure for Your Fugly Armpits] [|How advertisers create body anxieties women didn't know they had, and then sell them the solution.]

[|LOL's triumph]: How did a little web acronym spread so fast?

[|The "Nonplussed" Problem] [|How long should we cling to a word's original meaning?]

[|How Not To Prevent Bullying] [|Two anti-bullying videos that might do more harm than good.]

[|The 20 Most Hilarious And Clever Print Ads Ever]

[|50 Yahoo Answers Fails]

[|20 Brilliant Marketing Campaigns That Literally Stopped Traffic]

[|The 24 Coolest, Most Cleverly Placed Ads Ever]

[|Want to look slimmer? Throw away the rules and wear hoops NOT stripes]

[|Shakespeare and Verlander]: Why are we so good at developing athletes and so lousy at developing writers?

[|Monkeys can count…but not on an empty stomach]

[|How many groups reached the Americas before Christopher Columbus?]

It's Not About the Calories [|End the War on Fat]: It could be making us sicker. Dark Sugar: The decline and fall of high-fructose corn syrup. Footloose and Sugar-Free: The odyssey of my no-sweets diet. Lard: After decades of trying, its moment is finally here.
 * Food Articles:**

[|The Birds Of Prey sing about Aquaman’s tiny penis] [|"Birds of Prey" from Batman: The Brave and The Bold]

[|Walking Hadrian’s Wall]

[|Craigslist sex trafficking scandal based on bogus stats]

[|How Did "Muffin Top," "LOL" and "OMG" Get into the Oxford English Dictionary?]

[|The Origin of the Term 'Baby Mama']

[|Raises Don't Make Employees Work Harder] But pay cuts make them slack off.

[|Is your work schedule destroying your liver?]

[|If you want to force someone to do something, be sure to touch them first]

[|A psychoactive drug that’s spread through unprotected sex with men]

Slate won for General Excellence in the News and Opinion category: [|Complete List of 2011 Digital Ellies Winners] [|ASME Announces 2011 Digital Ellies Finalists]

[|Can't feel the rhythm? You may be beat-deaf]

Two differing views on nuclear power after the failure of reactors in Japan as a result of the earthquake and tsunami: [|The True Costs of Nuclear Power]: If the Japanese can't build a completely safe nuclear reactor, who can? [|Nuclear Overreactors]: Let's cool the political meltdown over Japan's damaged nuclear power plants. [|Man vs. Meltdown] [|Will Japan's nuclear crisis end in catastrophe?]

How To Survive an Earthquake: [|What you need to buy to prepare for the Big One].

[|The Romantic Batman Lair You Can Book for $50 a Stay]

[|The difference between apes and humans that led to cities, nations, and the internet]

[|Don't Stop Working!]: What's the secret to living longer and being healthier? Keep doing useful work. Share this post × [|How wearing a glove can warp your sense of good and bad]

[|Anonymous comments: Why we need to get rid of them once and for all.]

Nussbaum: [|//30 Rock// Takes On the ‘Women in Comedy’ Issue]

King James Bible: [|How it changed the way we speak]

[|Do Teens Really Need Nine Hours of Sleep?]

[|Forget Me Not] : How to win the U.S. memory championship.

[|A view of the exact region in Africa where humans emerged]

[|Doctor slang is a dying art] [|Medical Slang]: which is a subpage of this webpage: **[|**Slang**]**

[|Stone tools shaped the evolution of our hands]

[|Impure Lesbians of Sodom]

Psych-Out Sexism:[|The innocent, unconscious bias that discourages girls from math and science].

[|Shark catching drives species to extinction]

[|Palau pioneers 'shark sanctuary']

[|Game-playing monkeys reveal how we evolved self-awareness]

[|How to See in The Dark]! Nightvision with infrared LEDs

[|John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus]

[|Master's degree holders keen to switch jobs]: online poll

[|Sex Is Cheap]:Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they're failing in life.

[|'Tolkien Professor' Corey Olsen brings Middle-earth to iTunes via podcasts]

[|Choose Your Own Adventure]: How //The Cave of Time// taught us to love interactive entertainment.

[|Scientists build the world's first anti-laser]

[|Negative experiences can stop painkillers working]

[|How 'OK' took over the world]

[|Animals who live fast and die young could be the key to human life extension]: Check out the comment section to see how confused people are about the article

[|Nip-tuck preferences sculpted by cultural ideals]

http://herebedragonsmovie.com/: an Introduction to Critical Thinking

[|Are You There God? It's Me, Brain. How our innate theory of mind gives rise to the divine creator.]

[|Humans' early arrival in Britain] http://www.ahobproject.org/Downloads/Chart.pdf [|Britain's human history revealed] [|Ancient Britons 'drank from skulls']

[|German 'plagiarism' minister Guttenberg drops doctorate]

[|Biologists and dolphins have created a new inter-species language]

[|To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With Dolphins]

[|On a Mission]: The new Broadway musical by the creators of //South Park// isn't anti-Mormon. Like all of their work, it's anti-stupidity

[|Everything you know about beating stress is wrong]: But these 6 tried-and-true anxiety-busters can relieve your chronically fried nerves

[|What John Tierney Gets Wrong About Women Scientists]: [|Understanding a new study about discrimination]

[|Hands-Free Hackers]: An invisibility cloak, a virtual piano, and more amazing modifications for the Microsoft Kinect. A video slide show.

[|Sleeping enhances memory – but only the important stuff]

[|Things you can do better asleep than you can awake]

Gym Rats and Dope Fiends: [|Exercise can help reduce drug cravings. But is exercise itself a kind of drug]?

[|100,000-year-old human settlement in U.A.E. overturns what we know of our evolution]

[|MND apologizes for wrongful execution]

It's Not the Job Market: [|The three real reasons why Americans are more anxious than ever before].

[|Tyranny of the Alphabet]: A new study explores how your last name influences how fast you buy stuff.

[|How much money does a movie need to make to be profitable?]

[|Handy chart explains how to write like Grant Morrison]

[|Stanley Fish Picks His Favorite of Your Favorite Sentences]

[|Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing]

[|Even a little meditation can change the structure of your brain]

[|Chimpanzees are learning how to outwit human hunters]

[|How to Plant Ideas in Someone's Mind] [|The Art of the Gripe]

[|Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.]

[|Why Do Boys Like Sticks]? An answer to the Explainer's 2010 Question of the Year. [|The Questions We Never Answered] (Could have students research answers to these questions and write something similar to the Explainer style answers.)

[|Exercise doesn't help serious couch potatoes]

[|Friendly Firearms--Gabrielle Giffords and the perils of guns]: How an armed hero nearly shot the wrong man.