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