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Justice Alito’s Polygamy Perplex - The New Yorker

Judging from his contributions during Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments about same-sex marriage, the Justice is a little hung up on a certain false analogy.

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There Should Be Two Lines at Bars: a Manifesto

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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. Explore the winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey — an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.

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Top 10 Worst Fictional Camp Counselors - TIME

Any counselor who cancels lunch due to "a lack of hustle" is bound to go down as one of the worst. Especially when you're in charge of a bunch of campers who, well, really enjoy their food. In...

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The 20 Best New Bands of 2014

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Great Gift Ideas For The 10 Major Species Of Science Fiction Fan

Finding the perfect gift for the beloved fan in your life can be a major challenge -- but the first step to success is to know what kind of fan you're dealing with. What does this person truly love, above all else? Once you know that, you're set. Here's our complete guide to gifts for 10 different species of fans.

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The 50 Best Songs of 2014

according to Paste

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Irish Craft Beer

Breaks Free

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Louis Mallart's "Animated Alphabet" Is A Hypnotic Look At The Abstract Nature Of Letters

The essential abstractness of letters is made no more apparent than in Louis Mallart's "Animated Alphabet," a collection of GIFs that create letters out of art-deco points and swirling tones.

I like D the best

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The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate

Efforts are under way to make chocolate cheap and abundant -- in the process inadvertently rendering it as tasteless as today’s store-bought tomatoes, yet another food, along with chicken and strawberries, that went from flavorful to forgettable on the road to plenitude.

I'm not happy about this

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Are Drunk People More Philosophically Rigorous?

At a bar in France, researchers made people answer questions about philosophy. The more intoxicated the subject, the more utilitarian he or she was likely to be.

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SIR KEN ROBINSON: Full body education

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Fox's Libertarian Fantasy Utopia Already Being Ruined by Contestants

In Sunday's new show Utopia, 15 pioneering Americans ("Pioneers") will pioneer out of their regular grown-up lives like we have, and into a "remote location" where they will find the ultimate adventure: Inventing a new civilization! But as Deadline.com reports, according to EP Jon Kroll and Fox EVP Simon Andreae, it took less than a real-time week for shit to start falling apart:

hilarious and insightful as per usual (of the Gawker articles I keep reading)

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