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Smile If You’re a Democrat [15 Jul 2015|12:00am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/07/the_gist_maria_konnikova_on_the_science_of_political_personality_studies.html

Listen to Episode 297 of Slate’s The Gist:
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Dear Prudence Live Chat   [15 Jul 2015|01:24am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/07/dear_prudence_live_chat_for_jul_20_2015.html

Need help getting along with partners, relatives, co-workers, and people in general? Ask Dear Prudence! Emily Yoffe takes your questions on manners, morals, and more. Please keep your questions succinct (recommended max. length is around 150 words). Submit yours ahead of time below: 
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Unhealthy Fixation [15 Jul 2015|09:45am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/are_gmos_safe_yes_the_case_against_them_is_full_of_fraud_lies_and_errors.html

Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of such products nearly tripled. Whole Foods will soon require labels on all GMOs in its stores. Abbott, the company that makes Similac baby formula, has created a non-GMO version to give parents “peace of mind.” Trader Joe’s has sworn off GMOs. So has Chipotle.
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Home Pages I Still Visit [15 Jul 2015|10:32am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/slate_plus/2015/07/how_to_read_the_internet_every_day_josh_keating_on_the_sites_that_converted.html

What do you visit at least 20 times per month? In 20x, we ask Slatesters about their real “media diets,” about the corners of the Internet that they return to every day, for better or worse. —Slate Plus editors
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From Compost You Came and to Compost You Shall Return [15 Jul 2015|01:34pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2015/07/urban_death_project_wants_us_to_compost_the_dead_can_religious_groups_get.html

If Katrina Spade gets her way, using decomposed corpses as fertilizer will be as common a practice as traditional burial and cremation. Spade is the founder of the Urban Death Project, an organization that plans to compost dead bodies with woodchips inside a three-story concrete core. The New York Times recently called it “a startling next step in the natural burial movement” and in May the project’s Kickstarter raised more than $90,000 to design its first composting facility, which should break ground in Seattle by 2022. 
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The Culture Gabfest “What a Long, Strange Trip We’ve Totally Ignored” Edition [15 Jul 2015|03:19pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2015/07/slate_s_culture_gabfest_on_catastrophe_the_grateful_dead_s_fare_thee_well.html

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 356 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner with the audio player below.
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Slate Voice: “Unhealthy Fixation: The Misleading War on GMOs” [15 Jul 2015|06:39pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/slate_voice_an_audio_reading_of_unhealthy_fixation_the_misleading_war_on.html

Howdy, Slate Plus members! Here’s the audio version of a story that took me forever to write. It’s about genetically modified organisms.
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That “Volunteer Professor” Ad [15 Jul 2015|06:41pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/07/volunteer_professor_ad_it_says_a_lot_about_the_sorry_state_of_academia.html

Last week, I suggested that “assistant adjunct” might just be the worst job title in academia. It sounds like someone who DustBusts the crushed Bugles out of the regular adjunct’s 1990 Toyota Celica. But I realized I might have been wrong about that title when I came across this job ad for a “volunteer professor” at Southern Virginia University. Yep, professors who work for free. Well, not 100 percent free—they get “complimentary apartment-style housing and five meals a week.”
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Obligation to an Ailing Pet [15 Jul 2015|07:40pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/dear_prudence/2015/07/dear_prudence_video_obligation_to_a_dying_cat.html

In this week’s video, Prudie counsels a woman with an upcoming trip to Europe who doesn’t want to leave her sick cat.
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The Golden Age of Surveillance [15 Jul 2015|08:12pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/07/encryption_back_doors_aren_t_necessary_we_re_already_in_a_golden_age_of.html

In recent months, law enforcement, led by FBI Director James Comey, has waged war against the “going dark” problem—criminals using secure communications technologies, particularly encryption, to evade justice. Its solution to this problem is to encourage or require technology companies to build in back doors to allow the government to circumvent, say, encryption on your iPhone. But in reality, we are currently in a golden age of surveillance. The “going dark” argument should not be used as a reason to support back doors or other special access by law enforcement to encrypted communications.
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Sex & Drugs & Middle-Aged White Guys  [15 Jul 2015|08:29pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/07/sex_drugs_rock_roll_on_fx_reviewed.html

In Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, which begins Thursday night on FX, Denis Leary plays a washed-up rock star named Johnny Rock. In the early ’90s, Johnny, who never met a drug he didn’t like, was the frontman for the Heathens, who broke up the day their first album was released. Twenty-five years later, Johnny is a rock asterisk, a minorly influential frontman who never made it because of his unpleasant personality and debauched lifestyle. Eking out a living on the final fumes of his fame but still a legend in his own mind, he makes eyes at a young woman at a bar. She knees him in the balls. She’s his daughter, Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies). She wants him to write her some songs, get the band back together, and make them both famous.
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Could a Catastrophic Earthquake Really Destroy Seattle? [15 Jul 2015|08:59pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/kathryn_schulz_s_new_yorker_story_on_pacific_northwest_earthquake_geologists.html

The last earthquake of roughly magnitude 9 in the Pacific Northwest happened 75 years before the United States existed. One day, possibly in the not-too-distant future, the Earth’s crust will again convulse in a megaquake. What will happen then will dwarf any natural disaster our country has ever experienced.
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Let’s Grade a Deal (Iran Edition) [15 Jul 2015|10:09pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/07/the_gist_jeffrey_lewis_on_the_iran_nuclear_deal_and_national_debt_explained.html

Listen to Episode 298 of Slate’s The Gist:
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Obama Wants to End Mass Incarceration [15 Jul 2015|10:34pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/07/obama_and_mass_incarceration_how_much_power_does_the_federal_government.html

It’s criminal justice reform week at the Obama White House. On Tuesday, the president gave a major speech outlining the moral and economic case for shrinking the prison population, rehabilitating inmates instead of merely locking them up, and
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Skinheads Need to Shop, Too [15 Jul 2015|11:02pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/07/dear_prudence_i_didn_t_want_to_serve_a_neo_nazi_customer_was_that_bad_of.html

As a member of Slate Plus, you’re reading this Slate story before anyone else can! This story is exclusive to Slate Plus members until Thursday at 6 a.m.
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The Life of an NBA Body Double [15 Jul 2015|11:15pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/07/nba_body_doubles_bill_hader_s_trainwreck_double_talks_about_facing_lebron.html

“Watch the shooter.”
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