Here’s How Long That Teen Would Have to Pee in the Portland Reservoir to Make It Unsafe to Drink

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April 17, 2014 9:44 PM

Should Slate Change Its G.D. Profanity Policy? Three Editors Debate.

David Plotz, Dan Kois, Laura Helmuth, and Jennifer Lai

March 19, 2014 2:12 PM

Slate’s Best Animal Stories of the Year

Laura Helmuth

Dec 23, 2013 10:34 AM

Francis Collins and the NIH’s Scandalous Attempt to Claim Full Credit for Sequencing the Human Genome

Laura Helmuth

Oct 30, 2013 2:14 PM

Don’t Be a Creep, and Other Lessons From the Latest Scandal in the Science Blogging World

Laura Helmuth

Oct 17, 2013 12:06 PM

The Politics, Rivalries, and Sweet Science Behind the Nobel Prize Decisions

Laura Helmuth

Oct 10, 2013 8:14 AM

Watch the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, the Weirdest Night in Science

Laura Helmuth

Sept 12, 2013 5:15 PM

Why Slate Readers Are Still Alive: Best 50 Stories About Saved Lives

Laura Helmuth

Sept 12, 2013 5:42 AM

What’s the Longest Lifespan I Could Have?

Laura Helmuth

Sept 12, 2013 5:41 AM

Watch Tim Minchin’s “Storm,” the Best Critique of Alternative Medicine Ever

Laura Helmuth

Sept 11, 2013 8:06 AM

Fourteen Unsung Heroes, Inventions, and Ideas That Save Lives

Laura Helmuth

Sept 11, 2013 5:10 AM

The Never-Ending Battle Between Doctors and Midwives. Which Are More Dangerous?

Laura Helmuth

Sept 10, 2013 5:15 AM

Long Lives Made Humans Human, From the Paleolithic to Today.

Laura Helmuth

Sept 09, 2013 5:45 AM

How Would You Have Died in 1811? Play Our Grisly Game and Find Out.

Chris Kirk and Laura Helmuth

Sept 05, 2013 7:08 AM

You Used to Get One Life. Now You Get Two. #NotDeadYet

Laura Helmuth

Sept 05, 2013 5:18 AM

Virginia Heffernan’s Nutty Revelation: She’s a Creationist

Laura Helmuth

July 15, 2013 3:56 PM

Happy 30th Anniversary, Sally Ride’s First Space Flight. You Came Too Late.

Laura Helmuth

June 18, 2013 4:45 PM

The Conspiracy-Ridden Worldview of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Laura Helmuth

June 11, 2013 1:05 PM

The Next Doctor in Doctor Who Should Be a Woman

Laura Helmuth

June 03, 2013 1:06 PM

What’s the Worst Thing a Teacher Ever Said to You?

Laura Helmuth

May 08, 2013 6:00 AM