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What happens when you give cocaine to bees? I bet you've always wondered.To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in
Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees’ backs...

Perhaps otiose to recapitulate a hilzoy post you all read already, but you might not have followed the links! She, like me, enjoyed the Nocera article in the NYT Magazine on VaR--a flawed risk-mana...

Blago is always down for a jack move, isn't he?

I would love to have a clone of our old dog Ruby, or Fang (both pit bulls) or Sissy (german shepherd mix). Weird family dynamics at work in this tale of cloned dogs, though:Missy 1.0 — Mira and Mis...

I know logically that Larry Kudlow has no shame, because...Larry Kudlow! Nonetheless I can't help but wonder if he might feel a faint touch of a related emotion when he considers this 2005 offering...

As I think I've metioned before, my grandmother Nannie would never let anyone sleep with a necklace on because she had an Aunt Harriet who died in a hotel, strangled by her pearl necklace. After I ...

And, er, happy Boxing Day, more like it. As usual, I pretty much raked in the good gifts; I have a generous and thoughtful family. Most popular among the younger set was the Legos, two huge sets wo...

I wrote the post below yesterday before seeing much commentary about it. I certainly don't think it impugns Matt's credibility in any way. It was just a ham-fisted way of dealing with a "problem" t...

What's up with this grovelling apology posted on Matt's blog by his editor?This is Jennifer Palmieri, acting CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Most readers know that the views e...

This Slate best music of 2008 back-and-forth with Robert Christgau and others is interesting. Here in Singapore the extremely boring radio station Gold 90FM has one and a half good features. The ha...