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Why Did Texas Blow $10 Million to Catch 40 High School Steroid Users?
The death of an expensive and ineffective high school steroid testing program in Texas is just the latest such program to fail in spectacular fashion.
Germany's Absurd New PED Law and Why It Won't Fix Anything
Germany, like some other countries, is looking to jail athletes for using PEDs. This is both wrong and utterly useless.
Sierra Leone Will Soon Have More Ebola Infections Than Liberia
According to the World Health Organization, as of Friday there were more than 16,100 total cases and nearly 7,000 deaths in the hardest hit countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
Meet the Human Guinea Pigs Who Test Your Meds
Who are the people going through trials of untested drugs? Martyrs for medicine? Students who dropped their entire loans on kegs and mini fridges? I signed up to a clinical trial so I could meet them.
Stop Freaking Out About Facebook's 'Psychological Experiments'
Other websites have been playing around with data and algorithms for years.
The US Military Is Collecting Data on Millions of High School Students
With the help of schools across the country, the US military is exploiting a loophole in the law to gather personal information on millions of Americans.
This Is the First Company to Legally Test Commercial Drones in America
Meet the New York company that's already been flying in Canada and France for more than a year.
Russia Is Installing Video Cameras in School Classrooms
The Russian government is planning to install video surveillance cameras in classrooms to prevent cheating. They're trying to improve their educational standards, but at the expense of privacy.
Future Sex: D.C. Kids Take Nation's First-Ever Sex Ed Standardized Tests
Perhaps even more surprisingly, the scores are encouraging.
Sarin, PCP, and Colonel James S. Ketchum
The doctor behind the US Army's psychedelic Manhattan Project, held at the top-secret Edgewood Arsenal facility, has a few regrets. Weed isn't one of them.
We Gave Bullshit E-meter Readings to Complete Strangers
The Hubbard Electrometer, more commonly known as the E-meter, is a "religious artifact" used to measure the state of electrical characteristics in the static field surrounding the body. E-meters operate in a similar fashion to lie detectors, relying on...
How Many Nerds Does it Take to Break an iPhone 5?
There couldn't be anything more satisfying than being Greg Packer last Friday, the first to walk away from Apple's 5th Avenue store with a fresh iPhone 5. Opening that box, I imagine a small string of Packer's drool collecting in a puddle on the device...