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Janet Jackson: The Joy of Sex

Janet Jackson on the cover of Rolling Stone. Ellen Von Unwerth I want to talk about
AUTHOR:David Ritz
PUBLISHED: Sept. 16, 1993
LENGTH: 3 minutes (995 words)
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Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?

Real C. elegans worms squirming in a laboratory agar plate. The have been genetically modified to express fluorescent proteins (Jesper Pedersen). For all the talk of artificial intelligence and all…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3020 words)
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When Does Plastic Surgery Become Racial Transformation?

Image by Abbie Trayler-Smith/Buzzfeed Leo Jiang won't tell me why he spent the pas
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3463 words)
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Egypt 'suffering worst economic crisis since 1930s'

Egyptian workers harvest wheat in Banha, north of Cairo. For most Egyptians, rising food prices are the most critical problem. Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA Egypt is suffering its worst economic…
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1762 words)
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The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among Consenting Adults?

In "What Do You Desire?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search…
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2908 words)
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In Facebook We Trust: What Really Happened Behind the Biggest IPO Flop of Our Time

Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4385 words)
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New York City House

By Michaelangelo Matos Chicago gave birth to house music and London brought it to the world, but New York City gave it its dimension. House music was NYC’s ubiquitous after-dark soundtrack…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6252 words)
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@RBMA 5 days, 18 hours agoView tweet

Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5121 words)
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Neanderthal culture: Old masters

The earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans. Spots and stencils in El Castillo cave, Spain — one at least 40,800 years old —…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2991 words)
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@NatureNews 6 days, 13 hours agoView tweet

Does Prozac help artists be creative?

Alex, left, and Sam Preston differ in their experience of how Prozac affected their work. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer Twenty-five years after pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly unleashed…
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4938 words)
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