1. Liam Lowery, on the experience of having to explain his gender to TSA agents when traveling.

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  2. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  3. This Future Islands man, with his square head and his knock-kneed dance, is living his best life.

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  4. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup!

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  5. Caitlin Keefe Moran on the delicious 1797 novel, "The Coquette."

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  6. Those two monks are keeping busy inventing stuff! This week it's Renaissance art.

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  7. The return of misandrist lullabies.

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  8. Wudan Yan explains the science of epigenetics, and helps us figure out what all the new genetic tests can and can't tell us about ourselves.

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  9. I mean, it's pretty much there in the title. Major Lazer sells panini presses at an EDM concert via the use of rousing shouts.

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  10. Alaina Conner presents a list of potential plot points for the final two books of "A Song of Ice and Fire," most of which involve characters dying horribly.

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  11. My Father, the Felon

    D.M. Moehrle on the strange saga of her father the felon, and having inherited the knowledge of how to lie and be believed.

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  12. Kathryn Ionata describes the worst possible literary dinner party a person could throw.

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  13. An alien is forced to write human erotica, for some reason.

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  14. Benedict Cumberbatch explains how he was able to don the mantle of the melancholy prince so skillfully in the final weeks of his 2015 run as Hamlet.

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  15. All hairstyles are impossible, but these are especially impossible.

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