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Stranglehold [20 Oct 2015|09:45am]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/10/dear_prudence_my_husband_makes_me_hug_him.html

Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is online weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up below to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. Read Prudie’s Slate columns here. Send questions to Prudence at prudence@slate.com.)
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Cable Companies Are Experimenting With Metered Data [20 Oct 2015|12:00pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/cable_companies_are_experimenting_with_metered_data.html

As of Oct. 1, Comcast customers in a few small markets are now subject to metered data use. Households that use more than 300 gigabytes of data per month will have the choice to pay $10 for an extra 50 gigabytes or $30 per month for unlimited service. The cable giant joins the No. 4 player in the industry, Cox Communications, in offering tiers that vary in price depending on data use.
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French Tadpoles and Persian Pickles [20 Oct 2015|12:30pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/a_history_of_paisley_the_origins_of_the_curved_shapes_in_paisley_print.html

Excerpted from Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns by Jude Stewart. Out now from Bloomsbury.
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Ice Cream Patent Headache [20 Oct 2015|02:29pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/what_the_history_of_eskimo_pies_says_about_software_patents_today.html

To the extent that they cross our minds at all, we generally think of patents as good things: rewards for meritorious inventors. It might seem, then, that stronger patents would lead only to good things for inventors and for society overall. Indeed, many of those debating patent reform in Congress take that very tack to the issue.
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How Prison Architect Could Liberate Gaming [20 Oct 2015|02:33pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/prison_architect_s_crowdfunding_proves_the_kickstarter_model_for_video_games.html

Kickstarter was supposed to ignite a renaissance in video gaming. Developers would propose games they’d envisioned, making their pitch in video and vision-statement form. Gamers would fund projects based on these appeals, not to mention the reputations of the people making them. We’ve gotten some great games out of this model, like Pillars of Eternity and Wasteland 2. But the model hasn’t been perfect, and not just because many of the most financially lucrative Kickstarters have come from established creators with pre-existing followings looking to sever the strings that come with other models of funding, like video game publishers.
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Judah Friedlander on Character, Anxiety, and If the Raindrops United [20 Oct 2015|02:39pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/the_moment/2015/10/judah_friedlander_on_character_anxiety_and_if_the_raindrops_united.html

Listen to this episode of The Moment with guest Judah Friedlander:
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Where Now Transforms Into Then [20 Oct 2015|04:01pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/10/the_wikipedia_page_2010s_in_fashion_is_the_most_haunting_document_of_our.html

If you skim the Wikipedia entry for “2010s in Fashion,” you’ll learn a great deal, both about passing fancies and lasting trends. “Neon colors and elaborate T-shirts were popular for much of the early 2010s,” we are told. But by 2014, “Bright colors (especially the Ed Hardy shirts) went out of style in favor of black, white, beige, taupe, gray, and various shades of dark green.” This muting of the palette was thanks to “the improving economy.”
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Why We Should Be Talking About Russell Simmons’ RushCard Fiasco [20 Oct 2015|04:17pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/rushcard_s_failure_underscores_the_need_for_postal_banking_poor_americans.html

According to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 17 million Americans are “unbanked”—they are without bank accounts—while 58 million are “underbanked,” meaning they lack access to traditional banking services, from check cards to saving accounts.
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Scalia Is Wrong About Kansas [20 Oct 2015|04:32pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/10/scalia_is_wrong_that_kansas_favors_the_death_penalty.html

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood hit bookshelves in 1965. The magazine series, turned into a book, detailed the grisly murder of the Clutter family and how the crime upended the sleepy prairie town of Holcomb, Kansas. The two men who committed the murders, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were hanged a few months before the story’s release. A few months later, on June 22, 1965, Kansas hanged spree killers George York and James Latham. Those executions—which took place 50 years ago—are the most recent executions in Kansas history. Of the 31 states that formally retain the death penalty, only New Hampshire has gone longer without an execution.
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The “Baseball Clava Hat” Bonus Segment [20 Oct 2015|04:52pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hang_up_and_listen/2015/10/hang_up_and_listen_bonus_segment_cold_weather_sportswear.html

This week on the Slate Plus Hang Up and Listen bonus segment, hosts Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca, and Josh Levin discuss trends in athletic gear for colder seasons. When is it appropriate to wear long sleeves in baseball? What about parkas in football? Was the hat with built-in earmuffs a lasting innovation? The hosts share their opinions on seasonal apparel and its effect on gameplay. Additionally, the panelists brainstorm their own innovations for cold-weather sports attire.
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How Jane Austen Helped Inspire Elena Ferrante’s Disappearing Act [20 Oct 2015|05:17pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/10/how_jane_austen_helped_inspire_elena_ferrante_s_disappearing_act.html

Elena Ferrante—the mysterious Italian writer whose Neapolitan novels have captivated the literary world with their portrait of a lifelong female friendship—has been asked many times why she keeps her identity private. She has responded with many variations on the answer that she gave Vanity Fair this summer: “My books increasingly demonstrate their independence … for those who love literature, the books are enough.”
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A Woman’s Right to Know [20 Oct 2015|07:07pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/10/california_reproductive_fact_act_challenged_by_crisis_pregnancy_centers.html

The U.S. Supreme Court has long been signaling an almost infinite tolerance for claims that religious freedom and the freedom of speech—especially when combined—can be a sprawling and effective means of achieving whatever ends you may desire. Now California’s new efforts to regulate its 300-plus crisis pregnancy centers are being challenged in the courts on precisely those grounds. Only days after California’s governor signed into law a measure that would require crisis pregnancy centers to notify their patients about how to obtain birth control and abortion services, two such clinics, both ministries of churches, sued California Attorney General Kamala Harris, claiming the new law unconstitutionally violated their speech rights and religious freedom. The 18-page complaint asks the court to declare the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency (FACT) Act unconstitutional and bar its enforcement.
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Run, Joe, Run [20 Oct 2015|07:57pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/podcast_for_america/2015/10/lindsey_graham_and_glenn_thrush_weigh_in_on_joe_biden_on_this_week_s_podcast.html

Listen to Episode 22 of Podcast for America:
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Dear Prudence Live Chat [20 Oct 2015|08:11pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/10/dear_prudence_live_chat_for_oct_26_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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The One Problem Mike Murphy Can’t Solve [20 Oct 2015|08:36pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/mike_murphy_jeb_bush_problem_the_head_of_right_to_rise_can_t_explain_how.html

Mike Murphy finds it all very funny that people think Jeb Bush is in trouble.
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Gloria Steinem Has a Theory About Why Women Don’t Like Hillary Clinton [20 Oct 2015|08:58pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/10/gloria_steinem_s_hillary_clinton_theory.html

Gloria Steinem has a theory about liberal women who feel, or have felt, antipathy towards Hillary Clinton. They are insecure about their own bad marriages. That, at least, is the implication of an astonishingly condescending passage in her new book, My Life on the Road, excerpted in the Guardian.
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Where’s My Hoverboard? It’s Not Coming. [20 Oct 2015|09:48pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/11/where_s_my_hoverboard_sorry_you_re_probably_never_getting_one.html

It is nearly Oct. 21, 2015—the day to which Marty McFly traveled in Back to the Future Part II. And all across the Internet, the people demand: “Where’s my hoverboard?” Every so often, someone claims to have created a “real” hoverboard—except there’s always some caveat, like it only works in a bespoke skate park. And don’t even try to call it a hoverboard if it has wheels. The truth, as Will Oremus argued in Slate in November 2012, is that you probably are never going to get a real hoverboard. His original article is reprinted below.
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Training Militaries Is Difficult, and Justin Trudeau Is Handsome [20 Oct 2015|09:55pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/today_in_slate/2015/10/the_u_s_is_lousy_at_training_militaries_justin_trudeau_and_the_new_star.html

Bonjour Slate-ecois,
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They Finally Won [20 Oct 2015|11:31pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2015/10/the_gist_ilya_marritz_profiles_columbia_university_s_football_team.html

Listen to Episode 360 of Slate’s The Gist:
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Jim Webb Didn’t Have What It Takes [20 Oct 2015|11:50pm]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/10/jim_webb_didn_t_do_what_it_takes_to_be_president_the_former_virginia_senator.html

Running for president is hard, grueling work that almost always ends in failure. To succeed, or even come close to success, you have to commit 100 percent. You have to campaign and cajole and speak and charm and hope that voters come to your tent, and stay for the show. And even then, even if you’re good, it’s a crapshoot.
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