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October 2014
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- October 31st
- Sarah Palin: Louisiana Senate race will be a 'shocker'
- Girls on Film: 4 female filmmakers who pioneered horror movies
- Fall movie guide: All the films you should see in November
- How ISIS sells women and children
- Israel's quiet doomsday submarines are almost ready
- How science can help you survive scary movies
- October 30th
- This week I learned F. Scott Fitzgerald may have revolutionized the game of football, and more
- 15 classic cocktail recipes you need to know
- Dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells: Why do we call weights 'bells'?
- Michael Jordan slams President Obama: 'He's a sh--ty golfer'
- Is 3-D sound the future of audio?
- The pure fun of John Carpenter's Halloween
- The secret advantages of great penmanship
- How the brides of ISIS are attracting Western women
- When the petrodollars run out
- The mysterious origins of the Jersey Devil
- October 29th
- A magic kale salad, with bacon and cheese
- These charts show just how bad Ebola has gotten in West Africa
- Why it's wise to gamble first, eat later
- How to live a long life, according to science
- Beware of Splenda: The backlash against artificial sugars
- Why the defense industry is ripe picking for hackers
- Liberian president 'a little bit concerned' about U.S. Ebola quarantine 'overreaction'
- October 28th
- The Fed's (not so) new role: Champion of the working class
- How to get smells and stains out of Tupperware
- Pope Francis: God isn't 'a magician with a magic wand'
- The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on pets, Miley Cyrus, and the secret to covering The Beatles
- How well does Mark Zuckerberg speak Chinese?
- I rebelled against my frugal upbringing — and it cost me
- This celebrity scientist wants Germans to stop recycling. Here's why.
- How quantum computing could change everything
- #SANDY, through the iPhone's lens
- Biden: If the 'march of the Tea Party' isn't stopped, there will never be compromise in Washington
- October 27th
- 6 simple steps for making millions on a crappy horror movie
- Google spends more than any other tech giant to influence Congress
- Girls on Film: Why 'Me, too!' is the most undervalued phrase in Hollywood
- Why musicians are better multitaskers
- DNC chair: Republicans are scarier than ISIS or Ebola
- 3 disgusting ways independent, talkative women were tortured and shamed in Shakespeare's England
- No, the U.S. doesn't have plans to nuke North Korea
- 7 mental biases that could impact how you invest
- Domestic extremists suckered youngsters into gathering intel on police officers
- Personal finance tips: Choosing a college loan, and more
- 7 innovative ideas in architectural design
- October 26th
- October 25th
- October 24th
- The week's best photojournalism
- Keira Knightley on Laggies, relationships, and surviving your 20s
- Gamergate might be gaming sexism's Waterloo
- How you judge politicians' attractiveness, according to science
- Here comes the Pentagon's newest space plane
- Al Qaeda's next target: American oil tankers
- Extreme haunted houses: Inside Halloween's most terrifying new trend
- Gloria Steinem: Gamergate is making the web 'especially hostile and dangerous'
- October 23rd
- Painting the universe's portrait
- 10 soldiers welcomed home by very happy dogs
- Did the media get Ferguson wrong?
- Fox News host: Young women should be excused from juries to 'go back on Tinder' instead of on a jury
- Can science fiction spur scientific innovation?
- When Khomeini said no to Iranian nukes
- 10 self-sabotaging interview mistakes to avoid
- The U.S. is about to sell weapons to Vietnam. That's bad news for China.
- The Week contest - Costly chuckles
- October 22nd
- Stop hating on cyclists
- 10 breakfast dishes fit for a crowd
- A gay superhero is the comic book movie we need
- How 3D-printed makeup is changing the fashion industry
- How to slash your winter bill, according to utilities experts
- Why is the Pentagon stuffing caves in Norway full of tanks?
- The simple trick to making better decisions in every aspect of life
- The Lebanese Army is inadvertently creating an extremist incubator
- Secret Service stretched mission to protect employee, report finds
- Baseball's new secret to success: Don't strike out
- 6 simple steps for making millions on a crappy horror movie
- October 21st
- How to make corn dogs
- The women who shaped the computer age
- 5 baffling foreign-language versions of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song
- Caretakers of a disputed land
- Will Kobani be ISIS's Waterloo?
- Syrian women know how to defeat ISIS
- Why some men develop signs of pregnancy
- What big data can tell us about the things we eat
- October 20th
- The stories behind 22 classic album covers
- How to show your money who's boss
- Here's a sweet-hot chile sauce that's got it all
- Lessons from the world's best supply chains
- How 1,000-year lifespans could remake the economy
- 7 towns that changed their names (and 4 that almost did)
- The main reason markets are jittery? The future looks gloomier than it did before.
- The U.S. Marines are developing laser weapons. Here's why.
- 5 words that are spelled weirdly because someone got the etymology wrong
- Personal finance tips: A warmer, less-expensive winter, and more
- October 19th
- October 18th
- October 17th
- Anna Gunn gives her take on what happened to Breaking Bad's Skyler White
- The week's best photojournalism
- The economic case for keeping the minimum wage at $7.25
- Girls on Film: It's time to push back against 'sexy' costumes for girls
- He said, she said: Dueling interviews with Listen up Philip's Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss
- These researchers have a novel way to classify every city
- Mario Batali's 6 essential tools for cooking pasta
- The ancient cliché that can actually improve your modern life
- Inside the rise of embryo adoption
- England runs biggest trade deficit in world football
- October 16th
- How to make the most of your slow cooker
- The science of autumn colors
- Ban PowerPoint!
- A brief, scandalous history of high heels
- 6 money mistakes millionaires never make
- Are America's special operations forces in crisis?
- 5 ways to navigate the agonizing college admissions maze without going crazy
- 3 horrific inaccuracies in Homeland's depiction of Islamabad
- It's time to kill school picture day
- The Week contest - Everlasting love?
- October 15th
- Maybe climate change needs a great pop song
- All the diseases you should worry about at least as much as Ebola
- How to make homemade Oreos
- Dancing through disability
- Bono is sorry for giving you that free U2 album
- The outrageous, surprising, and prescient legacy of Boston Legal
- Why I regret going to college
- 5 simple rules for naming your TV show
- These 8 maps show the median age of every country on Earth
- October 14th
- The Belgian plan to give beer to schoolchildren
- Brad Pitt says he's been a gun owner since he was in kindergarten
- The personality types of successful poker players, according to science
- 'F--k, we're dead' — Air France pilot before 2009 crash that killed 228 people
- Everything you need to know about cooking mollusks
- Why the U.S. needs to ban work email after hours
- How to overcome your fear of public speaking and give a great presentation
- Captured by ISIS, these teenagers went through hell. Then they ran.
- The secret emotional lives of 5 punctuation marks
- October 13th
- 8 emotions that might be sabotaging your finances
- The 6 best apples for pie
- Why U.S. infrastructure investment is a no-brainer
- The old-world charm of Greece's endangered outdoor cinemas
- The most persuasive judicial response to voter suppression laws yet
- How to protect your business from fraud
- How an awesomesauce new suffix came to be
- How moms change brains
- 4 phobias that could sabotage your earning power
- Russia is beefing up its information fortress
- Personal finance tips: How to survive between jobs, and more
- The Affair: A drama that demands you pay attention
- If we must have a hugely invasive national security state, let's at least listen to it
- A nuclear deal with Iran won't end the Middle East's big cold war
- This one reform could fix the biggest problem with American capitalism
- October 12th
- Emily St. John Mandel's 6 favorite books
- Leon Panetta: Obama needs 'the heart of a warrior'
- Surviving a life of abuse, neglect, sickness, and betrayal
- 10 recipes starring fall vegetables
- Uncle Sam wants you to stay away from these countries
- How California's Central Valley went from breadbasket to wasteland
- October 11th
- October 10th
- Your complete guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse
- The robots of resistance
- The week's best photojournalism
- 11 things no one tells you about competing on Jeopardy!
- Girls on Film: 5 TV actresses who deserve much better movie roles
- I took the 'Financial Crisis Tour' in downtown Manhattan. This is what happened.
- The real cost of America's online diploma mill nightmare
- How to do the right thing, according to science
- October 9th
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Don't ask for a raise, ladies — just have faith in the system
- 10 states where families are living on the financial edge
- How to make milk and cereal ice cream
- Would white open-carry activists support a black man with an AR-15?
- Just how much does the U.S. Air Force spy on China?
- This is your brain on dogs
- Grad school's mental health problem
- The Week contest: Beer-brained
- October 8th
- How to stop misogynists from terrorizing the world of gamers
- 14 touchdown-worthy recipes for tailgate season
- Former Defense Secretary Panetta: Obama's military strategy is 'damaging'
- American Horror Story: Freak Show is the nutty horror drama we needed this Halloween
- How an island full of landmines led to a thriving penguin population
- The nostalgic beauty of blending haircuts with railway history
- Why that guy keeps reminding you he went to an Ivy League school
- The Russian ruble's collapse shows the power of U.S. sanctions
- 6 common myths about financial planning — debunked
- Hey, liberals: Criminalizing hate speech will inevitably backfire
- Ello isn't the Facebook alternative you were promised
- Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page opens up — and prepares to hit the road
- The war against Ebola is much more important than the battle against ISIS
- October 7th
- Can prisons predict which inmates will try to escape?
- Zola Jesus' 6 favorite songs that inspired her new album, Taiga
- How to fix our broken offices
- The secret to baking enriched breads at home
- Jennifer Lawrence on nude picture theft: 'It's not a scandal. It's a sex crime.'
- The FCC gathered 3 million comments on net neutrality. None of them will have an impact.
- How ObamaCare could save the U.S. from Ebola
- 8 ways a simple notebook can change your life
- The biggest folly in transportation: streetcars to nowhere
- How Lena Dunham became Oprah
- Please obey this simple rule for airplane seat reclining
- How pathetic is ISIS?
- October 6th
- Hunting for a job? Don't expect plastic surgery to help.
- 4 creative ways to use salt
- FBI: Chinese hackers are like a 'drunk burglar'
- Delivering success: how to thrive in the competitive delivery market
- Acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer on literature, feminism, and Sylvia Plath
- Will a bunch of terrible craft beer ruin the booming craft beer industry?
- Russia's arms race in the Arctic is heating up. How worried should the U.S. be?
- Oil prices are falling. Here's why petrostates aren't panicking.
- Inside the mind-bendingly eccentric, endearingly bizarre homes of the late, great Felix Dennis
- 9 bizarre and endearing inventions (from 100 years ago)
- Personal finance tips: How to catch counterfeit goods online, and more
- America doesn't trust its experts anymore
- The maddening almost-greatness of Homeland
- October 5th
- October 4th
- 4 things you can do with dry ice (besides make fake fog)
- The danger of dining with an overweight companion
- 13 killer ways to turn cheap beer into something delicious
- Could earthquake prevention technology save California from the 'Big One'?
- U.K.'s David Cameron condemns ISIS beheading: 'We must take action…and find those responsible'
- London cabbies: The masters of memory
- October 3rd
- Don't fall for Secret Service nostalgia
- House Hunting: 7 homes with first-floor bedrooms
- The week's best photojournalism
- Turkish President Erdogan: 'I am increasingly against the internet every day'
- Michael Caine: If I don't get a new script I like, I'll retire from acting
- Girls on Film: There is no 'true' version of Gone Girl
- 4 scientific theories for actual time travel
- 6 common money fears — and how to banish them forever
- The dangerous rise of the temporary technology worker
- How to solve global warming in 2 easy steps
- October 2nd
- 3 ways managing your money is like getting in shape
- How to make homemade Pop Tarts
- The terrifying, isolating reality of life amid the Ebola crisis
- Obama's intelligence chief dismissed ISIS. Why does he still have a job?
- Would you rather go blind or lose your mind?
- 5 legitimate scientific controversies
- Walmart wants to open a bank. Could it actually help people?
- Moving beyond Punch and Judy's sinister past
- The Week contest: The caffeinated intelligence agency
- October 1st
- How to improve your workplace culture
- Elon Musk wants to put a million people on Mars to 'safeguard the existence of humanity'
- House hunting: 7 homes on the San Juan Islands
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Ebola patient: 'This is all hands on deck'
- Jimmy Carter: 'I could have wiped Iran off the map'
- Why you probably don't have Ebola — even if you shook hands with America's 'patient zero'
- Fall film guide: All the movies you should see in October
- Did the Secret Service drop the ball in 2011?
- You're reheating pizza wrong
- Why colleges' insistence on 'diversity' actually fails disadvantaged kids
- Put down the Haagen-Dazs: Comfort food is a myth
- Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert are accidentally having a serious debate on ISIS
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