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Nov. 3, 2009The Slatest Noon Edition - Slate Magazine
: Duck Gives Peggy a Hickey
Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco?
How Joe Wilson Is Still Milking His "You Lie" Fame
Will Motorola's Droid Phone Take Down the iPhone?
Why Big, Industrialized Farms Are Better for Workers Than Family Farms
The Extremely Quiet, Polite Woman Who's Taking Over Europe
What Dumb People Are Searching for on Google
New Norah Jones Single: How Can a Song About Pirates Be This Boring?
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
- LiebermaniaWill Joe Lieberman filibuster health care reform, or won't he? | Tuesday, 1:35 PM ET
- The Mystery of the Rising Stock MarketIf the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing. Daniel Grossmoneybox | Tuesday, 1:09 PM ET
- My Taliban Captors Googled MeA daily video from Slate V. | Tuesday, 12:37 PM ET
- The Slatest: Afternoon EditionAbortion and immigration hold up the House health bill; Warren Buffett buys a railroad; Chinese "godmother" gangster sentenced to 18 years in prison; Army officials worry about rising suicide rates. | Tuesday, 12:28 PM ET
- Week 12: Workhorses and show horses. | Tuesday, 10:22 AM ET
- Conversation PieceWhy so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"?Robert Pinsky | Tuesday, 9:33 AM ET
- What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rainforest?Did we save it or what?Brendan Borrell | Tuesday, 7:11 AM ET
- Ford Is Back on TrackCaitlin McDevitt | Tuesday, 7:08 AM ET
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- posted by John Swansburg on November 3, 2009The How I Met Your Mother Shame Index: Episode 6After a brief hiatus, How I Met Your Mother returned this week with a new episode, and set about addressing, once and for all, this season's nagging question: Can Robin and Barney be funny as a couple? The Shame Index is happy to report that the answer is a rather resounding yes . Shameful:
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 3, 2009Hugging Kids and Drinking Pinot Noir—but Not Going Blonde From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my study of happiness, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date
- NSFT--Not Safe For Twitter--Election Eve Special R, Robot: Could this be the election that validates automated polls as more accurate than regular polls conducted by humans? Robopollster Rasmussen may have more riding on the New Jersey results than Obama . Mark Blumenthal (citing Nate Silver) discusses
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