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Oct 6, 2014
This Innovative Flower Pot Moves To Follow the Sun
IDEAS
by Lost At E Minor
Oct 6, 2014
Hear Cornel West on Obama: 'A Drone Presidency'
IDEAS
by TIME Staff
Oct 6, 2014
Ebola and the New Isolationism
IDEAS
by David Quammen
Oct 6, 2014
Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 6
IDEAS
by The Aspen Institute
Oct 6, 2014
Why Most Pregnancy Guides Are a Total Turnoff
by Allison Yarrow
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Oct 6, 2014
Campus Sexual Assault: What Ever Happened to Common Sense?
IDEAS
by Jennifer Moses
Oct 6, 2014
Why Having an Epidural Should Count as Having a Natural Birth
by Mehera Bonner
Oct 6, 2014
The Politics of Quarantines, From Typhoid Mary to Thomas Eric Duncan
IDEAS
by Mary Beth Keane
Oct 6, 2014
When Is 'Awareness' Awareness Month?
by Charlotte Alter
Oct 6, 2014
What Are the Top 5 Books You Must Read?
IDEAS
by Eric Barker
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Oct 4, 2014
I Don't Have Student Loans and I Don't Feel Bad for People Who Do
IDEAS
by Jessica Slizewski
Oct 4, 2014
Why Do You Read 1,000 Things About Change and Never Change?
IDEAS
by Eric Barker
Oct 3, 2014
The High Cost of Heartbreak for Modern Singles
IDEAS
by Marina Adshade
Oct 3, 2014
My Weight Made My Father Cry
IDEAS
by Marci Robin
Oct 3, 2014
SpaceShipOne's Dubious Birthday
SCIENCE
by Jeffrey Kluger