Can you imagine a world without heartbreak? Not without sadness, disappointment or regret – but a world without the sinking, searing, all-consuming ache of lost love. A world without heartbreak is als

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Posted on September 11, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi In the past twenty years, I’m not sure my personal set of politics have changed all that much. I’m pretty sure what has changed is how people view th

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Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional

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Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at century-old images of U.S. streets. There’s a window of a dozen or so years at the beginning of the 20th century, at the dawn of the automobile age, where American cities were remarkably multimodal—including a wide range of small personal…

A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. Over the last

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Posted on May 7, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi Let’s start off the 2018 Reader Request Week with a topic that several of you were interested in because of recent news, although I’m using Laura’s question

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America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicid

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As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for

I’ve been testing Apple’s new HomePod for the last week or so, and this is the first product review I’ve written that could be accurately summarized in the length of a tweet, and an old-school 140-cha

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by January 25, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net publish

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