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Readings — From the January 2012 issue
Easy chair — From the January 2012 issue
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Article — From the September 2010 issue
Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking
Readings — From the September 2010 issue
Readings — From the June 2010 issue
Readings — From the February 2010 issue
Readings — From the February 2010 issue
Article — From the January 2009 issue
Paying the price for eight years of Bush
Readings — From the December 2008 issue
Readings — From the October 2008 issue
Readings — From the September 2008 issue
Notebook — From the July 2008 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
