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December 2013
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- December 31st
- Tim Tebow heads to ESPN: 5 former players he should emulate
- This is how the NSA gets unrestricted access to your iPhone
- Mastering the art of conversation: 7 steps to being smooth
- How much value does the financial industry create?
- House hunting: 6 homes for amateur chefs
- 2013: The year of ________
- How to open a champagne bottle with a saber
- Cities of light
- 4 up-and-coming terrorist groups that wreaked havoc in 2013
- December 30th
- Watch a 10-year-old girl's video pitch for a disabled American Girl doll
- 8 household objects you probably shouldn't chuck at your partner
- The death penalty is going out of style
- Why the Volgograd bombings won't ruin Russia's Sochi Olympics
- 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs
- 9 movies you might not realize were remakes
- Meet the cutest zoo animals born in 2013
- 33 fascinating things we learned about ourselves from polls this year
- The 9 most memorable hoaxes of 2013
- 8 cultural institutions we said goodbye to in 2013
- December 29th
- December 28th
- December 27th
- 2013: The year in photos
- Time is up for the long-term unemployed. What now?
- Men are more likely to make ethical compromises to get ahead, study finds
- Girls on Film: The best and worst for femme-centric film in 2013
- How to garden in your tiny urban apartment
- The most newsworthy dogs of 2013
- 10 classic Sesame Street moments we wouldn't show today's kids
- The best books we read in 2013
- What very successful people have in common
- It's time for wind power to stand or fall on its own
- December 26th
- Why teenagers aren't drinking and smoking like they used to
- Belief in climate change depends on the weather
- Out of this world
- The great paradox of the greatest rock 'n' roll showdown of all time
- The best TV shows we saw in 2013
- How to win every argument
- House hunting: 5 homes with Hollywood history
- Don't believe the haters: Abenomics is working
- December 25th
- December 24th
- Kalashnikov and 4 other not-famous men who created super-famous guns
- 2014 could be a terrifying year for disgusting food trends
- Is this self-cleaning plate the future of eating?
- Why is Christmas one of the deadliest days of the year?
- 7 over-the-top defenses of Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson
- The best performances we saw in 2013
- 'Tis the season to set a bizarre world record
- The 5 most obscenely expensive Christmas decorations
- 11 surprising facts about reindeer
- Class up your appetizer spread with these holiday crostinis
- Why does NORAD track Santa?
- December 23rd
- Is this giant crystal ball the future of solar energy?
- Passengers paid U.S. airlines $4.7 billion in fees in the first 9 months of 2013
- 9 reasons we adore this little girl's sign language version of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'
- Watch the jailed members of Pussy Riot walk free
- This tech investor wants to split California into 6 states. Bet you can't guess why.
- 2013 albums of the year: The best of the best-of lists
- You definitely should not shop while you're drunk
- The 7 worst Christmas presents ever
- Personal finance tips: Smart career moves for 2014, and more
- Win your Christmas party with these gingerbread cookie secrets
- The best songs we listened to in 2013
- When Americans banned Christmas
- 9 gorgeous Christmas trees from around the world
- These are the most heartwarming stories of 2013
- SNL: Watch Fallon and Timberlake close out 2013 with stars and song
- December 22nd
- December 21st
- December 20th
- How advertisers use sex to sell products to women
- Yes, the NBA's Eastern Conference sucks. No, we shouldn't abolish conferences.
- There is a big difference between how richer and poorer investors view the stock market
- Merry Christmas! Give a drone.
- Health & Science: The big scientific breakthroughs of 2013
- End-of-year quiz
- Health & Science: ...and some of the things we were told to avoid
- Singles of the year: The critics’ top three
- Critics’ choice: Nonfiction
- Great reads from 2013:The chaos on Everest
- Critics' choice: Fiction
- Farewell
- Critics’ choice: The best albums of 2013
- 2013’s top 10 trends in American dining
- The biggest stories of 2013
- Best properties on the market
- Health & Science: Some of the things they said were good for us...
- Note to readers
- Artist of the year: James Turrell
- The week's best photojournalism
- What is the mystery flavor of Dum Dums?
- Girls on Film: The complicated legacy of Working Girl
- J.K. Rowling says she's working on a Harry Potter prequel... for the stage
- This is the key to understanding today's big GDP announcement
- Is cash the most 'efficient' Christmas gift?
- Yet another lame proposal for a $1 coin
- 6 Christmas gifts for those who have everything
- How to help the long-term unemployed: 5 theories
- Have banking and law careers gone out of style?
- Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson insulted African-Americans, too
- December 19th
- How could hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers from Target?
- 9 last-minute gifts that we actually want
- The NBA desperately needs a big-time rivalry
- How nonstop marketing killed my buzz for Anchorman 2
- This is the sun your eyes can't see
- The week at a glance...International
- Gossip
- Winfrey’s maternal alternative
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The hermit physicist
- The best of the tabloids in 2013
- NSA surveillance ruled unconstitutional
- The news at a glance
- Editor's letter: Adjusting to change
- A new custodian for HealthCare.gov
- Only in America
- The gun debate one year after Newtown
- The week at a glance...United States
- Good week, Bad week
- It wasn't all bad
- Payne’s life as a sex object
- The GOP: Are party leaders divorcing the Tea Party?
- Great reads from 2013:You’ll never know it’s gone
- Seduced by Twitter
- Turns out, you can die from laughing too hard
- Is the world ready for the Chipotle of pizza?
- Why Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson — and not Alec Baldwin — became a cause célèbre
- 5 lazy sitcom tropes that should never be used again
- 'Tis and 10 other fun proclitic words
- Journey to the heart of a landfill
- Today in history: December 19
- This week's new and notable video-on-demand releases
- Was Johannes Gutenberg a 15th-century con man?
- How to ace a job interview: 7 evidence-based hacks
- What's the best way to measure economic inequality?
- To wax or not to wax: How pubic hair became a debate about feminism
- The Week contest: 2014 headline
- December 18th
- The taper is finally here: What the Fed's move means for the economy
- Reforming the NSA: What you need to know
- Why sabotaging condoms should be illegal
- Best properties on the market
- Why Loehmann's just couldn't compete
- Movies on TV
- Also of interest…in turbulent geniuses
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Author of the week: Daniel Menaker
- Christmas Day’s big releases
- ‘Affluenza’: When the wealthy escape justice
- Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football by Nicholas Dawidoff
- Champagne: The dry craze
- Charity of the week: National YoungArts Foundation
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Show of the week: Independent Lens: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Innovation of the week
- Belgium: Euthanasia for children
- Martin Sharp, 1942–2013
- Getting the flavor of...
- What the experts say
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- China on the moon: The new space race
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Joan Fontaine, 1917–2013
- Recipe of the week: Pork and white bean stout stew
- Cars: The driverless era approaches
- Exhibit of the week: Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
- This week’s dream: Mexico’s answer to Paris and Rome
- Gifts...For those who have everything
- Banking: Meeting the mobile challenge
- Issue of the week: Helping the long-term unemployed
- Health & Science
- North Korea: Bloody purge shocks the region
- Feeding gourmet cats, and more
- Box sets: Three highlights of the season
- Critics’ choice: Out-of-the-ordinary Thai
- Book of the week: The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin
- The Christmas truce
- Santa Claus: Must he be white?
- Peter O’Toole, 1932–2013
- Best books...chosen by Bruce Wagner
- Wit & Wisdom
- The perils of predicting a stock market crash in 2014
- The Beatles and iTunes just showed us how broken the copyright system is
- This may be why youngest children are so bratty
- View from the tippy-top
- How the vitamin industrial complex swindled America
- How to be an effective leader
- These musical instruments are made of trash
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Watch the stirring first trailer
- How to give birth (100 years ago)
- Study: Millennials love ObamaCare, just not if they're the ones signing up
- Robots are the not-too-distant future of war
- Why India is so furious about the arrest of its diplomat
- 8 chocolatey cookie recipes
- Based on a true story? Fact-checking 6 Oscar contenders
- December 17th
- 7 ways to make a better meatball
- 4 tech tools that are disrupting the doctor's office
- How diamonds became the de facto engagement stone
- Apple's new Christmas commercial will make you feel warm and fuzzy feelings
- Beware the fine print of Glaxo's big drug-marketing announcement
- Why does China's Moon Rover exhibit show a nuclear mushroom cloud over Europe?
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Listen to 2013's inductees
- A rare look inside the Hermit Kingdom
- Which job skills will be most important in the future?
- Get ready for a massive renewable energy boom
- My family's holiday card is a total sham
- What your 'fear of missing out' says about you
- I make a six-figure salary — but I'm in financial trouble
- The sneaky clause hidden in your credit card agreement
- Watch The Daily Show belittle China's moon landing
- Attention, Dennis Rodman: Basketball diplomacy won't change North Korea
- Is it time for doctors to ditch the white coat?
- Why you should probably get used to Uber's price-gouging
- December 16th
- Why the NSA telephone records program is probably unconstitutional
- We are very, very bad at washing our hands, says science
- Why comic-book villains deserve their own movies
- 62 percent of all web traffic comes from bots
- No, you can't trade $1,000 into $264 billion
- Eli Manning is the worst quarterback since Mark Sanchez
- Sorry Katniss, Princess Fiona is still the best feminist action hero around
- 22 Jump Street: Watch the raunchy first trailer
- The brilliant business strategy behind Beyonce's record-breaking weekend
- Peter O'Toole's life in pictures
- These are the military-grade robots now owned by Google
- Less racism and sexism means more economic growth
- Family Guy resurrected Brian the dog
- Homeland season finale recap: 'The Star'
- Where in the world is CIA contractor Robert Levinson?
- What happened to the six-hour workday?
- 10 ways to make the holidays better — without breaking the bank
- 11 wonderful winter weather terms
- How creative geniuses get their ideas
- Making money: Tips for holiday tipping, and more
- Watch China's Chang'e-3 spacecraft land on the moon
- December 15th
- December 14th
- December 13th
- 8 of our favorite words coined by Mark Twain
- Being rich is now a get-out-of-jail-free card
- How sperm could one day cure cancer
- The forgotten streams of New York
- Also of interest...in literary homage
- A scientific argument for dressing a little nicer at work
- A common-sense guide to navigating the holidays at work
- Is there life on Jupiter’s moon?
- Sandy Hook a year later: Our hopeless gun debate
- Is this LA comedian's delightful iPhone cookie stunt a Twitter hoax?
- Beyonce released a whole new album while you were sleeping
- What Stalin can teach us about social media
- Watch The Daily Show mock Fox News' 'white Santa' claim
- 7 frosted cookie recipes for winter
- What one thing can determine whether or not you're successful in life?
- 2013 has been a horrible year for hedge funds
- The Idina Menzel–Taye Diggs split, and 5 other breakups that hurt us more than it hurt them
- Girls on Film: A gift guide for film fans
- December 12th
- Fewer kids are having kids
- Orange is the New Black was snubbed at the Golden Globes. The show has only itself to blame.
- How Arrow became the best superhero show on television
- The week at a glance...International
- Gossip
- Ferrell’s fashion mistakes
- Millions of closeted gay men
- A bipartisan deal on the federal budget
- The world’s oldest wing walker
- The week at a glance...Americas
- The week at a glance...United States
- Wannabe astronaut helps NASA, and more
- The bottom line
- Van Der Beek’s photographic memories
- Issue of the week: Signs of a true recovery
- Editor's letter
- The news at a glance
- Good week, Bad week
- TSA agent confiscates toy gun, and more
- Nelson Mandela, 1918–2013
- Instagram might be ruining our memories. Here's why that's a good thing.
- Who should the SEC punish next for the Madoff scandal? Itself.
- 5 surprising snubs from the Golden Globe nominations
- Why the FDA's new antibiotic rules fall short
- 8 edible holiday gifts you can make yourself
- Santa the adrenaline junkie
- The lingering mystery of the 1964 World's Fair
- Today in history: December 12
- How to make people like you: 6 science-based conversation hacks
- The Black Death is back
- The one word that will convince conservatives that inflation is actually low
- The Week contest: The Hermit Kingdom's new slogan
- How Congress really oversees defense programs
- The toughest question for 2016 Democratic presidential candidates
- December 11th
- 7 holiday gifts for the kid inside
- Step away from the ruler: Penis size studies are pretty worthless
- India's gay sex ban shows why the LGBT movement must go global
- House Hunting: 6 homes of philanthropists
- Why the Volcker Rule won't solve the problem of Too Big To Fail
- Show of the week: How Sherlock Changed the World
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- ‘Knockout game’: Is it real?
- Charity of the week: Rebuilding Together
- Innovation of the week
- Wine: 2013's best values
- Out of the Furnace
- Super Bowl: Banning a gun commercial
- World Trade Organization: Finally a global deal
- What the experts say
- Obamacare: The Millennial problem
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Author of the week: Russell Banks
- Getting the flavor of...
- Top noodles: The best new ramen parlors
- Wit & Wisdom
- Health & Science
- South Africa: Trying to live up to Mandela
- Security: Safeguarding your Web data
- Rye cookies: An ancient grain points baking in a new direction
- Holiday gifts: The best stocking stuffers
- Best properties on the market
- Charity: Donating to make a difference
- Pitching to America at 3 a.m.
- Genetic testing: Can you handle the truth?
- Exhibit of the week: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
- This week’s dream: Exploring Naples, Italy’s wild child
- Best books...chosen by Jung Chang
- American Hustle
- Greece: Surviving the winter without heat
- No Man’s Land
- Gift books: The best of the season’s coffee-table fare
- The Washington Redskins have another PR disaster on their hands
- Edge of Tomorrow: Watch Tom Cruise explore yet another sci-fi dystopia
- Francis isn't the first Pope to win TIME's Person of the Year
- The tricky science of trying to tickle yourself
- Millennial women have seriously narrowed the wage gap with men
- Cul-de-sacs are killing America
- TIME chose Pope Francis as its Person of the Year. And it was the perfect choice for the Upworthy era.
- Was the sign-language interpreter at the Mandela memorial faking it?
- The curator of nostalgia
- Can your makeup kill you?
- 5 remarkable things discovered under parking lots
- What the budget deal means for the economy
- How the Great Recession has changed the way we shop — even during the holidays
- How does chocolate milk stack up as a sports drink?
- How the Secret Service deals with the unknown on foreign trips
- The last racial taboo
- Why ratings websites suck
- December 10th
- How did Love Actually become so controversial? A theory
- Why Mary Barra is actually a retro choice for GM's CEO
- 3 reasons Laurent Potdevin was the right choice for Lululemon CEO
- Is the rent really too damn high?
- The five skills of disruptive innovators
- Why Wall Street is tepid on Twitter
- Godzilla: Watch the surprisingly grim trailer for the blockbuster reboot
- 9 things you didn't know were named after people
- Antarctica recently experienced the coldest day in recorded history
- The U.S. auto bailout is officially over. Here's what America lost and gained.
- Nelson Mandela's memorial in pictures
- Do Americans still believe in the American Dream?
- Why America's new love affair with saving is not great economic news
- Americans are wealthier than ever*
- The 10 worst-reviewed movies of 2013
- The science of making a guitar sound like a human voice
- How the porn industry is putting its performers — and finances — at risk
- 5 theories to explain North Korea's big mysterious purge
- December 9th
- This is the twistiest tongue twister ever, says science
- Why Yahoo might want to acquire Imgur, Reddit's photo-sharing spawn
- Surviving your office holiday party: A guide for introverts
- Would you cuddle a stranger for $80 an hour?
- Why U.S. and British spies have moles in World of Warcraft
- Cue scary music: Cockroaches that can survive New York winters reach the U.S.
- Battle in a blizzard
- Homeland recap: 'Big Man in Tehran'
- The secrets of happy families
- Here's how crazy-long German words are made
- Making money: Bargain-hunting tips, and more
- Watch SNL delightfully mess with all your childhood Christmas favorites
- December 8th
- December 7th
- December 6th
- All the World Cup mascots, ranked
- Why European women are still smoking like chimneys
- This is how much extra it costs to eat healthy every day
- Mariners, Robinson Cano agree to ruin the franchise for $240 million
- Supreme Court avoids online tax dispute
- What kind of worker are you?
- Girls on Film: Stephen Frears' pioneering platform for older actresses
- The week's best photojournalism
- Inversion and the power of avoiding stupidity
- Ryan Seacrest invested $1 million to transform your iPhone into a BlackBerry
- There is a better alternative to raising the minimum wage
- How Vanessa became Jacob
- The November jobs report is full of good news
- The hotel of enlightenment
- 'Tis the season for having sex with old flames and ruining your office reputation
- Watch The Daily Show use Pope Francis to hammer Fox Business pundits
- 6 grammar points to watch out for in Christmas songs
- How I cut my family's budget by $1,000
- A good night's sleep gives you an edge at work
- Remembering Nelson Mandela: The world's front pages
- December 5th
- Remembering Nelson Mandela: A tribute in photos and prose
- You have a cooler phone than President Obama
- Jameis Winston may be a free man, but college football is still on trial
- The world's largest gingerbread house, and more
- Radiant orchid: How Pantone picks its color of the year
- The Brooklyn Nets are the New York Yankees of the NBA
- The week at a glance...International
- Gossip
- The week at a glance...Europe
- The bottom line
- Thompson’s sudden arrival at ‘old’ age
- Lou Brissie, 1924–2013
- Charity of the week: Helping Hands Monkey Helpers
- Holiday music: The season’s best new tracks
- The news at a glance...Americas
- What the experts say
- Paul Crouch, 1934–2013
- China’s grab for airspace
- The topless feminist
- The relaunch of Obamacare
- Dern’s life in the slow lane
- Preparing for gender-variance, and more
- The week at a glance...United States
- Shopping: Avoiding holiday con games
- The news at a glance
- Good week, Bad week
- The making of a champ
- Issue of the week: What does Black Friday really tell us?
- Peter Kaplan, 1954–2013
- Editor's letter: A tipping point for the Goldilocks zone
- Can you 3D print an Hermes handbag?
- The logic behind the world's 4 weirdest strategic reserves
- This week's new and notable video-on-demand releases
- From Subway to SuperJam: 5 successful companies started by kids
- Why Americans care about Rob Ford's drug abuse but not Nigella Lawson's
- 41 pilot whales trapped in the shallows
- Today's GDP numbers prove that America's economic recovery is strengthening
- Is it possible to live forever?
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Watch the overstuffed first trailer
- Revamping the sex trade
- 11 languages spoken by 11 people or fewer
- 12 savvy tricks to save on holiday spending
- How to make the perfect hot chocolate
- Will ObamaCare actually make you healthier?
- Watch The Daily Show definitively prove that corporations are not people
- How El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià is revolutionizing the food world once again
- Mexico's unluckiest thieves stole enough radioactive waste to make a dirty bomb
- December 4th
- All hail the Bad Sex Awards, the world's best literary prize
- Coming soon: A different kind of superhero movie
- Why learning which of your Facebook friends hate you is a great idea
- Fear of dying alone drives women AND men into bad relationships
- Jacoby Ellsbury owes Robinson Cano a thank you note for his $153 million deal
- Also of interest...in glamour and its discontents
- Show of the week: Silent Night
- Movies on TV
- Author of the week: Jerry Stahl
- Innovation of the week
- Ukraine: A pro-Europe people with pro-Russia leaders
- Grüner Veltliner redux
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- The minimum wage: Should it be raised?
- Autobiography by Morrissey
- The law: Do corporations have religions?
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Oldboy
- Getting the flavor of...
- Recipe of the week: Miso-glazed sea bass
- Drones: When deliveries come from the sky
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Smartphones: The battle between Google and Apple
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Exhibit of the week: Isa Genzken: Retrospective
- This week’s travel dream: Germany’s storybook river
- Gift guide: The season’s best toys
- Bitcoins on the old hard drive, and more
- Best properties on the market
- Critics’ choice: Three old favorites, reimagined
- Book of the week: The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- China: Staking a claim to the air and the sea
- The executioners’ lament
- Iceland: A language that Siri won’t learn
- The Commons of Pensacola
- Best books...chosen by Laura van den Berg
- A short history of Popes sneaking out of the Vatican
- How to make cranberry jelly doughnuts
- Australia just scrapped its debt ceiling. America should, too.
- Forget Amazon — it's Google that may revolutionize package delivery
- How to dramatically improve your memory
- 10 works of literature that were exceptionally hard to write
- Who will get screwed in Detroit's bankruptcy?
- How we've failed at achieving work-life balance — in 1 giant chart
- Watch The Daily Show pit Pope Francis against Fox News' 'War on Christmas'
- The indignity of canine bath time
- 11 crafty gifts for the science buff in your life
- Are differences in IQ to blame for income inequality?
- Why Common Core may not fix our kids' problems with math
- December 3rd
- 13 healthy recipes for the mid-holiday detox
- Why the U.S. economy should be scared of the Amazon drone
- No, al Qaeda is not more dangerous now than before 9/11
- These 5 far-out space projects are making science fiction a reality
- Turbo FAST: Watch the trailer for Netflix's first original series for kids
- The upside of graduating during a recession
- 4 ways Darth Vader messed up his first selfie
- America's greatest export is its debt
- 5 books to read before your 30th birthday
- Why we like to discuss death at dinner
- What every TV show can learn from Sleepy Hollow
- PETA is now fat-shaming women into vegan diets
- December 2nd
- What does the rise in unprotected gay sex mean for the fight against AIDS?
- 'Destiny Bends': Hear RZA's emotional musical tribute to Paul Walker
- 4 common money mistakes couples make when they're in love
- Why Facebook doesn't actually want you to unfollow anyone ever
- Why so many Americans are missing out on the stock market boom
- Dogs, jeans, and other things you didn't know you could rent
- New York City's last peep shows
- The tricky science of trying to tickle yourself
- Paul Walker's death: How his Fast and Furious costars have paid tribute
- Tragedy in New York
- Today in history: December 2
- How Americans imagine retirement
- Why you should be excited about Amazon's drone delivery
- How the owners of all 30 NBA teams made their money
- Why the military is becoming a lean, green fighting machine
- Making money: Preparing for a baby, and more
- 5 ways to get a better night's sleep
- Homeland recap: 'Good Night'
- December 1st
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