slate.com —  34+ min ago

...Today's columnist is comedian and actor, Patton Oswalt, whose new Netflix special We All Scream is out now.... ...This special edition is part of our Guest Prudie series, where we ask smart, thoughtful people to step in as Prudie for the day and give you advice... ...How to Get Advice From Prudie. Submit your questions anonymously here. (Questions may be edited for publication.)... ...But most of the time, when I let my guard down like this, she zings us in some way: She"ll ignore my husband's stories or criticize him; she"ll say...

slate.com —  44+ min ago

...Welcome to State of Mind, a section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter.... ...Around 6 million people have Alzheimer's disease in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and this number is rapidly... ...Department of Health and Human Services" National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease, created in 2012, aims to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's... ...The fiscal year 2022 budget of the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, is more than $4 billion, a big increase...

slate.com —  1+ hour, 34+ min ago

...Live from Copenhagen. Choose your preferred player:. Get Your Slate Plus Podcast. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed....

slate.com —  14+ hour, 32+ min ago

...Scheindlin is a political scientist and a columnist at Haaretz, in Tel Aviv.... ...When I asked Dahlia Scheindlin what it felt like to be Israeli right now, she said a couple of things. It's hard to sleep.... ...All of these reforms put strict limits on the judiciary at a time when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under indictment.... ...One would allow the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to override Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority vote....

slate.com —  17+ hour, 4+ min ago

...On Zoom, Dan Benson looks nothing like Zeke, the character he played on the Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007 to 2012.... ...Now, his product is decidedly adult: He's an OnlyFans star.... ...In the late 1980s, he met a person at the Los Angeles Comedy Store who said they could get him work as a production assistant on a porn shoot.... ...In 1982, when Schwartz was 14, he shot to child stardom opposite Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason in The Toy....

slate.com —  13+ hour, 39+ min ago

...Talking about a contrariant bestie and COVID denialists with guest Gabe Mollica. Choose your preferred player:. Get Your Slate Plus Podcast.... ...We do not support Stitcher at this time....

slate.com —  10+ hour, 31+ min ago

...On Tuesday, a federal district court in Washington ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before the grand jury investigating former... ...President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.... ...Last week, in affirming the March 17 district court order that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testify, the Court of Appeals for the... ...Even if future litigation may arise about whether Pence has to answer questions, for example, regarding the attempt by Republican Senator Ron Johnson...

slate.com —  13+ hour, 32+ min ago

...If real, this would be the first goblin shark spotted in the Mediterranean.... ...Then, almost a year ago, a scientific paper announced a new sighting, this time on a beach in Greece.... ...Casey Crownhart at MIT Tech Review had kicked things off by sharing this tweet casting doubt on whether the goblin shark in the paper was really... ...journal Mediterranean Marine Science....

slate.com —  11+ hour, 49+ min ago

...Over the course of four hours, lawmakers grilled CEO Shou Zi Chew about content moderation, the mental health impacts of social media, data privacy... ...Frank Pallone of New Jersey said that he wasn't convinced that "the benefits outweigh the risks that [TikTok] poses to Americans in its current form... ...Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey in the chair.... ...Yvette Clarke of New York asked about content moderation bias against Black TikTok creators. These are real concerns....

slate.com —  14+ hour, 44+ min ago

...These promises, after all, are big--and have long come directly from Elon Musk.... ...There's a whole genre of YouTube videos of people showing how their Teslas can drive themselves around.... ...On Sunday's episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Faiz Siddiqui of the Washington Post about how Musk pushed for--and undermined--Tesla's quest... ...Faiz Siddiqui: The way that Tesla defines Full Self-Driving is "auto-steer on city streets."...