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There were dozens of hippie acts in Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s, but most people have only heard of a few: Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.…

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Obama’s Obama
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The contradictions of Cass Sunstein

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Heads Will Roll
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The story of a morbid curiosity

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Only Human
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The evolution of a flawed species

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Paradise Lost
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Did Wonder Woman fail feminism?

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In the year 564 b.c., a pankratiast named Arrichion stepped into the ring at the Olympic games. Pankration was a nasty mélange of wrestling and boxing, very popular with the…

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The Replacements
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New evidence on the old mystery of the Neanderthals

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The Passenger
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Creating the Lost Generation

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Me, Myself, and Id
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The invention of the narcissist

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Agreeable Angstrom
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John Updike, Yes-Man

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Consume, Screw, Kill
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The origins of today’s mass extinction

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