Slate’s Best Books of 2015 coverage: Monday: Overlooked books of 2015. Tuesday: The best lines of 2015. Wednesday: The best comics of 2015. Thursday: Laura Miller and Katy Waldman’s favorite books of ...

This is a Stan implementation of Drew Linzer’s dynamic Bayesian election forecasting model, with some tweaks to incorporate national poll data, pollster house effects, correlated priors on ...

On Feb. 17, 2012, Slate published an article titled “The Celltex Affair: An Ethics Scandal Strikes the World of Bioethics.” Because of shortcomings in the editorial process, the article did not meet ...

Imagine you've been served with a legal complaint. Your startup company makes a very popular widget, and your chief rival, MicroWidget International, is suing for patent infringement. If MicroWidget ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. For 70 years, Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded ...

Alfie, Kirsten, Miles, and Elly. Gregg Segal The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage ...

The Dorothy Parker Martini Glass. Abigail F.B. Pattersonfor Slate Slate’s Official Martini Madness Bracket Troy Patterson Troy Patterson is Slate’s writer at large and a contributing writer at the New ...

The chairman of Mobile Future, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, sat at the witness table along with the big wireless carriers and well-known consumer advocates to tell senators how the ...

Listen to Culture Gabfest No. 304 with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner with the audio player below. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab And join the lively ...

How the U.K.’s 3D Ceramix Renaissance Inspired U.S. Artists to Combine Ancient Craft With Modern TechBy Chris Martins For most of its 30,000–year history, pottery has been a tactile experience. A gift ...

Want to rediscover the joys and surprises of great literature? Read and discuss six great novels alongside Laura Miller and her fellow Slatesters. Discuss each book in our private Facebook group, then ...

Berlin Wall comes tumbling down (1989) Apollo I disaster: Grissom, White, Chaffee die (1967) First time you heard the Beatles (1963) Nixon resigns over Watergate (1974) Mount St. Helens erupts (1980) ...