1. Is this your first time at Crime and Punishment and Bikram?

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  2. How Ned Flanders in "Bart's Comet" perfectly summarizes Fear and Trembling.

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  3. The Presbyterianism of L.M. Montgomery.

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  4. Kate Gavino talks about the selfish benefit of volunteering at nursing homes: getting to hang out with senior citizens.

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  5. Elias Tezapsidis pays tribute to George Lois, the man who designed all your favourite "Esquire" covers.

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  6. The third installment in "Watching Downton Abbey With an Historian," in which Mo Moulton makes the show better for us.

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  7. Three character types who are inexplicably featured in every single movie about gladiators.

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  8. Making stuff and staying punk as fuck.

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  9. Link Roundup!

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

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  10. Mandy Penney talks about her complicated and rewarding relationship with step parenting and other aspects of having a blended family.

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  11. Exploring the possibilities of the Himuro Mansion.

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  12. All plants are terrible; here are the worst eleven of them.

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  13. The monstrous regiment of women who populate "Hey Ladies" ruined each other's New Year's Eve, and now there's...drama.

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  14. Stephanie Lai draws on her international development expertise to advise you on how not to do voluntourism badly.

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  15. The Toast's Middlemarch book club arrives at the end of the great novel in question, and looks ahead to Rebecca Mead's "My Life in Middlemarch."

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