It’s supposed to be news that wormholes are unstable? Dude, anyone who used to watch Deep Space Nine knew that.

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Chris Mooney and I had a brief e-mail debate a little while back about the topic of the piece he’s got up at The American Prospect today. He writes: Kansas’s previously proposed science standards had appropriately defined science as “the human activity of seeking natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us.” […]

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At the start of a piece on the porn classic Deep Throat, Laura Kipnis muses on Mother Nature’s shocking lack of gender solidarity in arranging things so that, on average, it’s easier for men than women to arrive at the Big O: And let’s not forget the unkindest joke of all, the placement of the […]

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