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Future Diabetes Treatment? Human Skin Cells Coaxed to Make Insulin

Can a Mumbai Museum on Wheels Change Perceptions of Slums?

Obama unveils wage insurance plan to spur job seekers

Confederate flag's removal turns King Day into celebration

The Smoky, Loud and Terribly Lonely World of the Professional Pachinko Player

CDC offers guidelines for schools' sex education topics

How mold on Space Station flowers is helping get us to Mars

Growing up Habbo: My so-called life in the first social network for teens

6 Dog Breeds With Secret Superpowers

14 Playful Facts About The Milton Bradley Company

Mummies Around the World—Dried, Smoked, or Thrown in a Bog

The racial justice issue that Americans must stop ignoring: Pollution

Revisiting a Jim Crow-Era Guide for Traveling While Black

When Martin Luther King Jr. took his fight into the North, and saw a new level of hatred

Prisons Have Become America’s New Asylums

Ten Days In a Mad-House. BY NELLIE BLY. (What interested me most is not her description of the asylum, but of the boarding house, particularly the mother who ignored her son's misbehavior until forced to respond. Clearly, that type of parenting is not a modern affliction!)

Court: With a warrant, cops can search basically anywhere on your phone

The Bundys and Tamir Rice Are Proof of Two Americas

The Infamous Reddit “Ask a Rapist” Thread Is Now the Subject of a Research Study

Holding the fate of families in its hands, China controls refugees abroad

The world's inequality countdown

A CFPB Report Finds Subprime Credit-Card Lenders Intentionally Make Borrowing More Complex for the Poor

Islamic State's double standards sow growing disillusion

Germany targets North African migrants in crackdown

These are the forgotten sexual assault victims in Europe

Jenn is rewatching all of Buffy lately.

Which got me thinking about Veronica Mars, don't ask me why. ( Spoilers for first season finale )

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Veronica Mars: One of TV's Realest Depictions of Wealth Inequality (Pre movie article, found it when googling the spelling of Echolls.)

A black Nancy Drew? Rebooting old favourites with new faces

A Painting of John Dee, Astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, Contains a Hidden Ring of Skulls

Why Anne of Green Gables Is a Patron Saint of Female Outsiders

Bernie Sanders’s health-care plan is the biggest attack on the rich of this campaign

Mapping Places in America Where Prohibition Never Ended

Check Out a Medical Pop-Up Book From the 17th Century

What Combination Of Hogwarts Houses Are You? (Huffleclaw ftw!)

Gardasil: More Anti-Vax Nonsense Collapses Under the Gaze of Reality

Making Maps Under Fire During the Revolutionary War

Professional mourners to street dentists: India's dying professions

Former circus owner emerges as powerful figure in pipeline of workers from Mexico

Solving the mystery of Rudyard Kipling’s son

Noah's Ark Rises in Kentucky, Dinosaurs and All

The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly...

Psychology study explains when and why bystanders intervene in cyberbullying

Israel steps up home demolitions to punish Palestinian attackers

The Color of Surveillance

How Zoning Restrictions Make Segregation Worse

The Story Behind The Deadliest Prison Bus Crash In Texas History

George Washington slave book pulled after criticism

Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World?

America’s Other Original Sin

A personal history of Islamophobia in America

Super-rich: 62 people own as much as half the world

Sexual violence isn’t just a college problem. It happens in K-12 schools, too.

The Ozone Hole Was Super Scary, So What Happened To It?

In his own words: A Syrian refugee’s first month in Canada