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April 2014
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- April 30th
- Meet the company that wants to be the Netflix for blind people
- After 29 years, I bought my first Mac — and I hate it
- How recap culture is hurting television
- Is Japan sorry for World War II?
- Sketching Star Wars
- 9 so-called flaws to ignore while house-hunting
- Fun with the interactive Algonquian language map
- Here's what a pro-wrestling script looks like
- Time management skills are stupid. Here's what actually works.
- How the world gets drunk, in 4 surprising charts
- Meet Wazhma, the reason Afghanistan needs more female lawyers
- Time Is Illmatic brings a legendary hip-hop album to a whole new audience
- House Hunting: 7 homes in Southern California
- April 29th
- In praise of a double standard for Donald Sterling
- The crazy logistics of packing up the U.S. war in Afghanistan
- Adam Silver just showed why a Clippers boycott was unnecessary
- Star Wars: Episode VII: Everything we know so far
- The best way to take notes while reading
- These 11 countries are banning certain baby names because parents can't be trusted
- 9 words created by spelling other words backwards
- Oklahoma just neutered its state Supreme Court
- How to make someone fall in love with you, according to science
- How channeling Picasso could make you more successful at work
- America's sexual assault debate wrongly focuses on college students over everyone else
- April 28th
- Why Mindy Kaling — not Lena Dunham — is the body positive icon of the moment
- These 6 cities are among the greenest in the world
- Prohibition didn't work for liquor — so why ban banking?
- Mad Men recap: 'Field Trip'
- Hollywood's sex and drugs shame
- Today in history: A humiliating end to the Vietnam War
- 21 wonderful words for wind
- 'Land of the brave' no more?
- This medieval bishop theorized a 'multiverse' 700 years before modern science
- Personal finance tips: How to say no to LinkedIn requests, and more
- How Shonda Rhimes can become TV's most important creative mind
- Are teen pregnancies good for the economy?
- Wild Beasts' 6 favorite songs of the moment
- Game of Thrones recap: 'Oathkeeper'
- April 27th
- April 26th
- April 25th
- What's behind the cat cafe craze?
- The week's best photojournalism
- Vice writer Simon Ostrovsky recounts his harrowing abduction in eastern Ukraine
- Girls on Film: Girlfriends, the most influential film about female friendship you've never heard of
- How spiders can tell if their mate is sleeping around
- Today in history: The White House gets a bowling alley
- How to make a proper mint julep
- Why Egyptians are adopting frontier justice to punish sexual harassment
- A common-sense guide to setting up your home bar
- Is the economy really twice as large as we thought?
- April 24th
- How a fetishized hologram became Japan's biggest pop star
- Why you're probably drinking your beer all wrong
- Everything you need for a diner-style dinner party
- Avril Lavigne laughs off racism claims
- Norway's military cut down on sexual harassment in the most remarkable way
- How my boyfriend and I learned to live on one income
- The Week contest — State book
- April 23rd
- Why telemedicine is the future of the health care industry
- Inside nature's most painfully bizarre sexual ritual
- Meet the last of India's elephant keepers
- The secret to living upside down, according to sloths
- How triangles revolutionized mapmaking
- Bryan Cranston thinks Lyndon Johnson was a psychopath
- Today in history: The birth of the bachelor president
- How to make perfect fried rice in 6 easy steps
- How to be a zen master at your next performance review
- Why the poor's investment of choice is so alarming
- How I learned to love the evil-looking earwig
- April 22nd
- Why would a young person today be religious?
- General Mills backed down from its controversial lawsuit policy. But the problem isn't over.
- Inside nature's most painfully bizarre sexual ritual
- How preschoolers trounced adults in a problem-solving contest
- Today in history: The death of a president
- 7 steps to cleaning even the most cluttered closet
- Why Mindy Kaling — not Lena Dunham — is the body positive icon of the moment
- The most expensive properties in 11 special edition Monopoly games
- April 21st
- A Shakespeare scholar examines the Bard's influence in House of Cards
- How do you do a Philadelphia accent?
- Ever wonder what it's like to round up, milk, and skin a rattlesnake?
- The 8 traits of every fearless job hunter
- Putin's risky bet in eastern Ukraine
- 9 ways music can improve your life
- Personal finance tips: The safest way to pay, and more
- Matt Taibbi on vampire squid, journalistic outrage, and Obama's flaccid approach to financial crime
- Aereo at the Supreme Court: No matter what, broadcasters lose
- Easter's deadly Ukrainian checkpoint battle makes no sense
- Mad Men recap: 'A Day's Work'
- The sexual politics of Game of Thrones just got enormously worse
- April 20th
- April 19th
- April 18th
- The wonderbrewer of Nowheresville
- The week's best photojournalism
- How to cook like a Game of Thrones character
- How women are being punished for living longer
- House hunting: 7 fantastic homes under $1 million
- 5 years of Girls on Film
- The man who would save jazz
- NBA playoffs predictions, based on ferocity of mascot
- April 17th
- How some bugs are like bad Elvis impersonators
- The world's dumbest idea: Taxing solar energy
- How Community's Dean Pelton broke new ground for sexual politics on television
- Today in history: JFK's worst foreign policy blunder
- 3 ways elephants and neuroscience can help you make better decisions
- Massive asteroid may have kickstarted the movement of continents
- How Captain America won over China
- Art is not a justification for discrimination
- Texas has been holding this man hostage for 12,600 days
- The Week Contest — Childhood guilt
- April 16th
- Conservationists are murdering invasive fish to save the Caribbean. It might be backfiring.
- Janet Yellen's 3 questions for the economy
- These stunning travel photos remind us that we're all just amateurs with iPhones
- U.S. economic confidence remains depressed — but there's hope
- Why the U.S. should step away from Israel-Palestine negotiations — for good
- Michael Bloomberg: 'I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close.'
- How Ukraine can fend off the Russians, in 7 simple steps
- Can these 4 couples really afford their dream houses?
- Why we can't stop procrastinating, according to science
- April 15th
- A Minnesotan's guide to Fargo
- How to make homemade marshmallow Peeps
- Why journalists deserve special protections
- How any actor (even a really nice one) can play a truly evil villain like King Joffrey
- Should drug deals and prostitution be included in GDP?
- Don’t fret the falling tech stocks
- How to be more satisfied with your life, according to science
- Today in history: The birth of the federal income tax
- Inside the U.N.'s failed Darfur mission
- I'm retiring in my early '30s
- Finish-line coordinator Tommy Meagher reflects on the Boston Marathon bombing
- April 14th
- Out and proud: Heroic portraits of America's transgender community
- Harrison Ford: 'I actually like snakes!'
- Yes, the economy is endangering Family Dollar — just not in the way you think
- Today in history: The assassination of Lincoln
- The next Cold War with Russia could be fought in movie theaters
- The contentious policy at the heart of Cliven Bundy's armed standoff with the government
- Conservationists are murdering invasive fish to save the Caribbean. It might be backfiring.
- Personal finance tips: When to skimp on insurance, and more
- 7 ways to quickly become a master at anything
- Meet China's protest archivist
- If a nuclear bomb exploded in downtown Washington, what should you do?
- Is there a savings glut?
- Why Obama's response to the Heartbleed bug is so troubling
- Mad Men premiere recap: 'Time Zones'
- Game of Thrones recap: 'The Lion and the Rose'
- April 13th
- April 12th
- April 11th
- The week's best photojournalism
- Pope Francis asks for forgiveness over priests' sexual abuse
- How John Kerry can find success in the ashes of Middle East peace
- The average wedding cost in America is $30,000
- How to wage The Art of War from your cubicle
- Today in history: A general's insubordination
- Girls on Film: Aspiring female filmmakers need male mentors, too
- Will guns and therapy stop military base killings?
- The 5 best DIY hangover cures
- Sorry, Dove: I'm not buying your brand of female empowerment
- Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner reflects on the show's legacy
- How solar energy could be the key to reducing economic inequality
- Obama's military budget mistake
- April 10th
- 7 last-minute tips for tax procrastinators
- Gossip
- The news at a glance...International
- Viewpoint: Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter
- The bottom line
- Anderson’s bad taste
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Blaine’s deadly game
- Good week, Bad week
- Putin’s threat to fracture Ukraine
- Family sues nursing home over male stripper, and more
- Editor's letter
- The ugly economics of chicken
- Too drunk to get married, and more
- Afghanistan's new, young painter
- Pop’s senior rage
- The news at a glance...United States
- The news at a glance
- Issue of the week: Do high-speed traders rig the market?
- 3 awesome translations from this sign language rap battle on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Nicolas Cage on 'the anatomy of a cool face'
- How ants use 'death signals' to scavenge for food
- Rupert Murdoch: Fox News 'absolutely saved' the Republican Party
- The surprising beauty of tar and dust
- The death of the presumption of innocence
- 9 surefire ways to 'fix' baseball
- How to be cool, according to science
- Russia blames NATO for Russia's neighbors being nervous about Russia
- The legal question that could stop China's maritime power grab
- 13 five-ingredient dinners
- The Week contest: Bitcoin blues
- April 9th
- How modern capitalism is re-segregating baseball in the 21st century
- Inside the Holy Grail of 9/11 documents
- Brazil's manager forbids team from having 'acrobatic' sex during World Cup
- 9 résumé mistakes you should avoid
- Show of the week: Fargo
- For those who have everything: Coca-Cola + Riedel Glass
- Also of interest...in picture books for grown-ups
- Movies on TV
- Best Web tools for giving a PC a spring-cleaning
- Author of the week: Karen Russell
- Tip of the week: Timing your anti-allergy tactics
- Charity of the week: UCP Wheels for Humanity
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Lorenzo Semple Jr., 1923–2014
- The Double Life of Paul de Man by Evelyn Barish
- Innovation of the week
- Wine: Nebbiolo alternatives
- United Kingdom: Should the NHS start charging fees?
- What the experts say
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Getting the flavor of...
- The Unknown Known
- The best...practical cycling gear
- Peter Matthiessen, 1927–2014
- Recipe of the week: Red whole-wheat penne
- The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy
- Israel: The one-state solution
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Retirement: Are reverse mortgages right for you?
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- The 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class: What the critics say
- Book of the week: Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
- Mickey Rooney, 1920–2014
- Best books...chosen by Arianna Huffington
- Exhibit of the week: Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937
- Critics’ choice: Nose-to-tail dining’s new frontiers
- This week’s dream: A brief sabbatical in Oxford, England
- Best properties on the market
- If/Then
- Yes, the gender pay gap is real
- Listen to a quartet sing while you watch a close-up of their vocal cords
- There is no appeasing Russia's mad king
- Yes, baseball is boring. That's exactly what makes it so great.
- The complete guide to cooking eggs every which way
- Lessons from Lincoln: 5 leadership tips history and science agree on
- Want better film criticism? Stop rewarding the trolls.
- This Japanese toilet should make Americans very worried
- April 8th
- House hunting: 7 beautiful Chicago homes
- Russia masters the art of clandestine warfare against Ukraine
- Al Sharpton: I'm no FBI rat. 'I'm a cat.'
- Is the international monetary system nearing collapse?
- Our favorite Heathers slang
- Matt Bell on readerly impulse, tastemakers, and the gatekeepers of publishing
- How to avoid getting sick
- Here's how to really detect lies
- What a simple psychological test reveals about the 99 percent
- Meet the company that wants to be the Netflix for blind people
- April 7th
- Don't sweat the supervolcanoes
- 10 ways to eat (and drink) your beer
- Why the CIA won't break its drone addiction anytime soon
- Why don't different species have sex more often?
- 14 abstract nouns we need to bring back
- Reading, writing, and kung fu
- 11 kid-centric tax breaks you don't want to miss out on
- Is our focus on economic growth hurting employment?
- How to raise happy kids, according to science
- How 3D printing could revolutionize organ transplants
- Personal finance tips: The importance of your college choice, and more
- From boobs to Bill Murray: 9 digital currencies you should know about
- Game of Thrones premiere recap: 'Two Swords'
- April 6th
- April 5th
- April 4th
- Everything you need to know about the tech IPO boom — in 4 paragraphs
- The intriguingly mysterious ocean on Saturn's icy moon
- An interview with the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Don't sweat the supervolcanoes
- Today in history: Lincoln's ominous dream
- Meet the sand-pooping, reef-saving, hermaphroditic parrotfish
- These startling images show strange and beautiful science up close
- 6 steps to spring cleaning your finances
- 4 insights that will make you happier at work
- Why economists should try to measure happiness
- Girls on Film: Hollywood should stop pretending it's hard to make a female superhero movie
- April 3rd
- Does home schooling make kids more politically tolerant?
- Yes, Daniel Murphy is a millionaire pro athlete. But he still deserves paternity leave.
- For those who have everything: Clawhammer Supply Moonshine Kit
- Best apps for enhancing a nature walk
- The bottom line
- Charity of the week: 4 Paws for Ability
- Tip of the week: How to keep a compost pile
- What the experts say
- Climate report offers a grim forecast
- The best of...spring rain gear
- Was this body search for a stolen Rolex illegal?, and more
- Good week, Bad week
- Obamacare crosses its first hurdle
- 2015 Chrysler 200: What the critics say
- Issue of the week: Are tech IPOs riding a bubble?
- Editor's letter: Are college athletes employees?
- Remembering Rwanda's genocide, 20 years later
- The news at a glance
- The parenting paradox
- Work: Why women don’t ask for raises
- British toddler saves mother with 911 call, and more
- To understand our climate future, look to the past
- Charles Schwab: 'High frequency trading is a growing cancer'
- Why we follow financial advice
- Seduction, power, and mastery: 3 lessons from history's greatest minds
- The Pentagon's new cyber-expert hiring spree
- Our favorite regional words from waaaay Northern Michigan
- Holy prefix, Batman! A look at Bat-words in honor of Batman's 75th anniversary
- Is the stock market really rigged in favor of high frequency traders?
- The Week contest — Hipster displacement
- April 2nd
- The internet scam that hijacks your hard drive
- How Pope Benedict unwittingly made the Catholic case for 'conscious uncoupling'
- Show of the week: Mad Men
- The untold story behind The Grand Budapest Hotel's 'Boy with Apple'
- Movies on TV
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Also of interest...in creative rebellion
- New on DVD and Blu-ray
- The week at a glance...International
- Gossip
- Author of the week: Susanna Kaysen
- Autism: Why rates are rising
- Innovation of the week
- Under the Skin
- Wine: Petite sirah’s big taste
- The week at a glance...Europe
- Sean Leary, 1975–2014
- You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood’s Golden Age by Robert Wagner
- ‘Conscious uncoupling’: Rebranding divorce
- Las Vegas: Beyond the tourist traps
- Watson’s real-life struggle
- State prison admissions fall, and more
- Bytes: What’s new in tech
- Noah
- Getting the flavor of...
- The week at a glance...Americas
- Europe’s most fertile man
- Health & Science
- Wit & Wisdom
- Bridgegate: Christie points the finger of blame
- Silicon Valley: Tech firms’ big money bets
- Saudis want action on Syria
- Artist of the week: Architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize
- Whole fish, Texas-style: Plenty of theater, with little fuss
- The week at a glance...United States
- The mainstreaming of mindfulness
- Romanian swallows a metal fork, and more
- Ronnie’s lucky escape
- Best books...chosen by Emma Donoghue
- Book of the week: Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark
- Jeremiah Denton Jr., 1924–2014
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Best properties on the market
- This week’s dream: Day-tripping through Italy’s Piedmont region
- Justice Breyer: Campaign finance limits protect the First Amendment
- Toys are us
- How to make your kids smarter: 10 steps backed by science
- Forget the 7.1 million: ObamaCare's real enrollment numbers are still to come
- Milwaukee Brewers fans gave a drug cheat a standing ovation — and you should, too
- 12 scientific postulates perfectly paired with rap lyrics
- This is one of the sickest, most twisted STDs that nature has to offer
- Before Edward Snowden, there was Jonathan Pollard
- Why are there so few prominent women in the art world?
- April 1st
- Kim Kardashian's secret to fame: be boring
- Why How I Met Your Mother chose the right ending
- Don't use 'pants' for 'pantaloons': 19 surprising rules copy editors used to enforce
- Cobie Smulders explains the controversial How I Met Your Mother finale
- Today in history: Nixon limits cigarette ads
- 4 scientific ways to become luckier
- 7 ways to banish your money envy
- 'Being nice never hurts': An interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone
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