Previously published Slate articles made new.

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• The Garlic Years When have we not been in the midst of a vampire craze?
  Chris Wilson Nov. 19, 2009
  
• I Vant To Upend Your Expectations Why vampire movies always break all the vampire rules.
  Christopher Beam Nov. 19, 2009
  
• Vampires Suck Actually, they don't. And that's the problem.
  Grady Hendrix Nov. 19, 2009
  
• Screen Saver? When it comes to cancer screening, more isn't always better.
  Amanda Schaffer Nov. 17, 2009
  
• The Water From Another Planet Should you drink it? Plus, why do we think that alien life would be water-based?
  Daniel Engber Nov. 13, 2009
  
• Witches' Brouhaha Why Halloween can be an organizational nightmare for pagans.
  Lee Ann Kinkade Oct. 30, 2009
  
• What Does "Off the Record" Mean? How journalists con the public with sourcing jargon.
  Timothy Noah Oct. 20, 2009
  
• Let's Get Those Phones Ringing! The cunning genius of the public radio fundraising drive.
  June Thomas Oct. 15, 2009
  
• Irving Penn, RIP He photographed the most important artists of the last half-century—and, in the process, joined their ranks.
  Philip Gefter Oct. 8, 2009
  
• What Does Roland Emmerich Have Against the White House? A history of destroying national landmarks on film.
  Keith Phipps Oct. 6, 2009
  
• Gourmet's Legacy The magazine is closing, but we'll always have the Gourmet cookbook.
  Laura Shapiro Oct. 5, 2009
  
• Tell Me Lies A roundup of Slate coverage about deceit and lying.
  Sept. 29, 2009
  
• That Guy From Jurassic Park Would Like To Ask You a Few Questions What is Jeff Goldblum doing on Law & Order?
  Nathan Heller Sept. 28, 2009
  
• Why Does Iran Need So Many Centrifuges? Because each one is so small.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 25, 2009
  
• Full Metal Racket Metal detecting is the world's worst hobby.
  Emily Yoffe Sept. 25, 2009
  
• Giant Squid Don't mess with them.
  Grady Hendrix Sept. 25, 2009
  
• Fashion Week FAQ Can you boo at a fashion show? And other questions answered.
  Josh Patner Sept. 15, 2009
  
• Why No More 9/11s? An interactive inquiry about why America hasn't been attacked again.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 11, 2009
  
• An Unlikely Hero The Marine who found two WTC survivors.
  Rebecca Liss Sept. 10, 2009
  
• How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty? Photoshop, of course.
  Daniel Engber Sept. 9, 2009
  
• Hillary: The Movie, Revisited The Supreme Court gathers to decide whether an anti-Hillary documentary is constitutional.
  Richard L. Hasen Sept. 8, 2009
  
• Where Did All Those Gorgeous Russians Come From? Why beautiful Eastern European women and tennis stardom go together.
  Anne Applebaum Sept. 2, 2009
  
• How Do You Calculate Dog Years? Was the world's oldest dog really 147 when she died?
  Christopher Beam Sept. 2, 2009
  
• Taking Sprinting to New Heights The 6-foot-5 Usain Bolt set two more world records. Why haven't there been more tall sprinters?
  Edward McClelland Aug. 20, 2009
  
• Am I Not a Woman? How to perform a gender test.
  Melonyce McAfee Aug. 19, 2009
  
• Short Shelf Life Do we really need link-shortening services like Tr.im and Bit.ly?
  Farhad Manjoo Aug. 11, 2009
  
• Why Are Georgia and Georgia Both Named Georgia? What the Deep South and the former USSR have in common.
  Noreen Malone Aug. 7, 2009
  
• "That Was Way Too Close!" Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon.
  Adrian Chen Aug. 6, 2009
  
• Make That a Double Shot I turned my disastrous experience of opening a cafe into a novel.
  Michael Idov Aug. 4, 2009
  
• Arena Football Is in the Red Zone The indoor gridiron, in memoriam.
  Hugo Lindgren Aug. 4, 2009
  
• August Let's get rid of it.
  David Plotz Aug. 3, 2009
  
• The Computer Is Flat Apple's rumored tablet PC augurs the next phase of the netbook craze.
  Farhad Manjoo July 27, 2009
  
• Michael Vick's Hail Mary Does the quarterback have any chance of making a successful NFL comeback?
  Peter Keating July 24, 2009
  
• What Makes Toxicology So Slow? Why it's taking so long to investigate the death of Michael Jackson.
  Juliet Lapidos July 14, 2009
  
• Why Did It Take Google So Long To Take Gmail Out of "Beta"? It's been around for more than five years!
  Juliet Lapidos July 7, 2009
  
• Why Do They Club Seal Pups? Can't hunters just shoot them instead?
  Daniel Engber July 6, 2009
  
• Happy Birthday, Smokey Bear Firefighting bears, crime-stopping pooches, and more of history's greatest pedagogical animals.
  Josh Levin July 3, 2009
  
• The Great Barbecue Debate Is charcoal bad for the planet?
  Brendan I. Koerner July 3, 2009
  
• Death by Cheese and the Dreaded Ruptured Stomach The past and future of competitive eating injuries.
  Jason Fagone July 3, 2009
  
• Summer-House Lit On not owning a vacation home.
  Timothy Noah July 2, 2009
  
• You Are How You Camped What your enjoyment of sleep-away camp, or lack of same, says about your character.
  Timothy Noah June 30, 2009
  
• Infinite Summer The Audio Book Club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
  Katie Roiphe June 29, 2009
  
• Why Did Madoff Get a Longer Sentence Than He Can Possibly Serve? Prison terms, explained.
  Daniel Engber June 29, 2009
  
• Sotomayor and Law & Order Why powerful women, like the Supreme Court nominee, love LNO.
  Michael Kinsley June 5, 2009
  
• Leon Despres, RIP The author of Slate's "Diary of a 100-Year-Old Man" dies at 101.
  Leon Despres May 7, 2009
  
• Win, Place, and Dope Why it matters that racehorses are on steroids.
  Daniel Engber May 1, 2009
  
• Hand-Washing in Public Bathrooms Can soap get dirty? Or is it "self-cleaning," since it's soap?
  Daniel Engber April 30, 2009
  
• Why Isn't There a Cure-All Influenza Vaccine? Because it wouldn't be safe.
  Michelle Tsai April 27, 2009
  
• Do Surgical Masks Stop Swine Flu? Probably not.
  Jon Cohen April 27, 2009
  
• Outbreaks vs. Epidemics Plus, when can the government quarantine its citizens?
  Brendan I. Koerner April 27, 2009
  
• Cancel Water-Boarding 101 The military should close its torture school. I know because I graduated from it.
  David J. Morris April 22, 2009
  
• So You Won a Pulitzer Who cares?
  Jack Shafer April 20, 2009
  
• Impeach Jay Bybee Why should a suspected war criminal serve as a federal judge?
  Bruce Ackerman April 17, 2009
  
• Madden Hangs Up the Telestrator Highlights from Slate's coverage of John Madden over the years.
  April 16, 2009
  
• What? You've Not Been Honored by the Webbys? If there is a less exclusive award on the planet, I've yet to hear of it.
  Jack Shafer April 15, 2009
  
• Why Do the Blind Get a Tax Break? And other questions about the IRS, with answers from our archives.
  Samantha Henig April 14, 2009
  
• Highlights From Slate's Recession Coverage Reader photographs of tough times, tips on managing tent cities, and other advice on surviving the economic downturn.
  April 14, 2009
  
• How To Watch the Masters An expert's guide to watching golf on television.
  Alex Heard April 10, 2009
  
• The Two-Minute Haggadah A Passover service for the impatient.
  Michael Rubiner April 8, 2009
  
• Madonna and Child, Africa Edition, Part 2 How do you adopt a child in the developing world?
  Daniel Engber April 1, 2009
  
• The April Fools' Day Defense Kit This year, don't be taken for a sucker by the media.
  Jack Shafer April 1, 2009
  
• The 25-Cent Flood Protection Device Why are we still using sandbags to keep rivers from overflowing?
  Jacob Leibenluft March 30, 2009
  
• The Prostate Why the gland is so famous.
  David Plotz March 20, 2009
  
• Why Is It Called "March Madness"? How the NCAA Tournament got its nickname.
  Brendan I. Koerner March 20, 2009
  
• Why Are Pakistani Lawyers Always Protesting? More on the judicial crisis in Islamabad. 
  Michelle Tsai March 18, 2009
  
• The Lead Is Safe How to tell when a college basketball game is out of reach.
  Bill James March 18, 2009
  
• St. Patrick Revealed The man behind the green beer and myth.
  David Plotz March 16, 2009
  
• Rereading Watchmen The world's first anti-heroic comic book is underwhelming.
  Tom Shone March 5, 2009
  
• Jose Rijo Unplugged Hanging out with the ousted Washington Nationals exec in the Dominican Republic.
  Bryan Curtis March 2, 2009
  
• "One Dollar for Every West Virginian" The crazy judicial-corruption case that the Supreme Court should hear.
  Amanda Frost March 2, 2009
  
• Antoinette K-Doe, RIP Remembering a great New Orleanian.
  Josh Levin Feb. 27, 2009
  
• How Much for That Monkey? Primates a la carte.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 26, 2009
  
• Fixing It: Fiscal Policy Fully account for the budget, stick to the budget, and work with the other party.
  Jason Furman Feb. 23, 2009
  
• Demetri Martin's Slate Diary A weeklong journal from the comedian and writer.
  Demetri Martin Feb. 18, 2009
  
• The Man Beneath the Hat The truth about Lincoln's sexuality.
  David Greenberg Feb. 12, 2009
  
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Unplugged Allen C. Guelzo's book strips away the nostalgia around this classic encounter.
  David Greenberg Feb. 12, 2009
  
• Doggie Bag Great scraps about the Westminster Dog Show from the Slate archives.
  Feb. 10, 2009
  
• Did He Start the Fire? How arson investigations into wildfires work.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 9, 2009
  
• The Baseball Player as Android How Alex Rodriguez inched toward humanity.
  Bryan Curtis Feb. 7, 2009
  
• Hard-Core Fans Some Super Bowl viewers had their football interrupted by porn. It could happen to you, too!
  Josh Levin Feb. 4, 2009
  
• Let Si Get This The Condé Nast economy—all expenses paid, all the time.
  David Plotz Feb. 3, 2009
  
• The Groundhog Fraud How do you know whether Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow? A Slate investigation.
  Timothy Noah Jan. 30, 2009
  
• Who Is Bruce Springsteen? The true legacy of America's last rock star.
  Stephen Metcalf Jan. 27, 2009
  
• Why Is Philip Seymour Hoffman a "Supporting Actor"? Your Oscar questions, answered.
  Jan. 22, 2009
  
• Torture Logic Obama legal appointee Marty Lederman's writing for Slate.
  Jan. 22, 2009
  
• FISA and Gitmo and Cheney, Oh My! Obama appointee David Barron's writing for Slate.
  Jan. 22, 2009
  
• Ten To Toss The top Bush executive orders that Obama should scrap immediately.
  Chris Wilson Jan. 20, 2009
  
• The Sexiest Man in the Morgue Farewell, William L. Petersen, the dumpy heartthrob of CSI.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 14, 2009
  
• How To Aim a Rocket Plus, what's the difference between rockets and missiles?
  Daniel Engber Jan. 13, 2009
  
• Gaza: The Basics Some history and background on the Gaza Strip.
  Nina Shen Rastogi Jan. 13, 2009
  
• Robert Rubin's Free Ride How does Clinton's treasury secretary escape blame for the market meltdown?
  Timothy Noah Jan. 9, 2009
  
• A Photographer in Gaza How to take pictures of a war.
  Scout Tufankjian Jan. 6, 2009
  
• The President's Law Firm Obama appointee Dawn Johnsen's collected writings for Slate.
  Jan. 6, 2009