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Food

‘Bringing Home the Bacon’ Is Exclusionary, According to Vegans

12.04.18

By Jelisa Castrodale
Entertainment

A Rhetoric Professor Explains How to Win an Online Argument

11.26.18

By Vincenzo Ligresti
Pulse

Indigenous languages are coming back from the brink

11.12.18

By Kelly Boutsalis
‘Single-Use’ Really Is the Word of the Year We Deserve

11.07.18

By Lauren O'Neill
Tech

The ‘Farmosopher’ Creating Language for Our Climate Doom and Rebirth

10.25.18

By Deidre Olsen
Identity

#MeToo, a Movement Reliant on Reporting, Reveals the Limits of Journalism

10.05.18

By Sadie Graham
Health

Learning an Instrument Can Make Children Better Readers

08.24.18

By جيسيكا دوري
Entertainment

Emojis Bridged the Language Barrier Between Me and My Father

08.16.18

By Arimeta Diop
A Kiwi MP Is Reclaiming the C-Word and People Are Pissed

08.09.18

By Wendy Syfret
Tech

Facebook Added Balloons and Confetti to Posts About the Earthquake in Indonesia

08.07.18

By Kaleigh Rogers
‘A Little Help and Imagination,’ Today’s Comics by Benny Montero

07.30.18

By Benny Montero
Tech

We Need a New Vocabulary to Talk About the Human Future in Space

06.25.18

By Frank White

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Life

Conspiracy Theorists Are Already Trying (And Failing) to Discredit the Artemis II Mission

Conspiracy theorists are already trying to discredit NASA’s Artemis II mission, but the science behind their questions is pretty simple.

2 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

How Many Times Can You Reheat Leftovers Before It Gets Risky?

The microwave is a lot of things. A time machine isn’t one of them.

3 hours ago

By Ashley Fike
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Life

5 Lies My OCD Keeps Trying to Sell Me (No Matter How Hard I Try to Ignore Them)

These are some of the common, disturbing lies my OCD has told me.

3 hours ago

By Sammi Caramela
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Music

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Just Announced an Album as Nine Inch Noize

The collaborative album is coming April 17.

5 hours ago

By Nick Stockton
You will know a "dinergoth" by personal adornment—colorfully dyed hair, cat ears, arm tattoos, septum piercing—but does this new character really exist?

Membership

What ‘Dinergoth’ Gets Wrong About Class in 21st-Century America

Robert Mariani’s viral “dinergoth” essay, about a supposed new type of American weirdo, is blinkered and self-serving.

5 hours ago

By Hugo Hansen