1. Helen Craig and illustrator Shing Yin Khor explore the two stories of Schrödinger's cat, from the perspective of, well, the cat.

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  2. Study finding homework can be detrimental to students was definitely done by adults and not two kids sitting on each others shoulders wearing a trenchcoat.

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  3. Kristen Hanley Cardozo on Lady Audley's Secret, and what it has to tell us about the Victorian novel.

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  4. Helen Craig gives us a long, detailed, touching, and funny portrait of the towering genius of Marie Curie.

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  5. Last week at SXSW, one forum introduced the latest in wearable technologies. Jaya Saxena breaks down some interesting innovations.

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  6. Meredith Collins on the psycho-sexual "Moths," a wildly popular Victorian novel by the fascinating Ouida.

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  7. How to Make Risotto

    Julia Pizzi is here to tell you exactly how to make risotto.

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  8. Jaya Saxena has no idea what Michael Fassbender looks like.

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  9. No movies are good. Nothing is good. Art is bad.

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  10. In 1996, New York City had a garbage strike. This is one ten-year-old’s take on the impending chaos.

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  11. Grace Bello spoke with Melissa Gira Grant about her book "Playing the Whore," the current role of sex work in our discourse, and how it fails sex workers.

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  12. British accents of the past! Would Draco Malfoy's dad have sounded like that in The Patriot? Would Ichabod Crane? Gretchen McCulloch will tell us.

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  13. Samantha Fox digs into the deep local inadequacies of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" by submitting it to a rigorous, academic fact-check.

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  14. Quinn Rosenberg, on the problems with many narratives about trans people written by cis people.

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  15. Attn: YouTube User “illuminati puppet” Re: Defamatory statements made by ILLUMINATI PUPPET to THE ILLUMINATI regarding JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS.

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