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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles while testifying before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/Scribner/Salon)

The day a tech CEO takes over the world

Mike Pearl
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

Can language learning prevent dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz - MIT Press Reader
(Skyhorse Publishing)

Try this smoothie for all seasons

Erin Indahl-Fink
(Skyhorse Publishing)

Try this healthier breakfast bowl

Erin Indahl-Fink
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford (Getty/00Mate00/The Experiment)

Why humans are unique among animals

Adam Rutherford
"Moving Beyond Fear: Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy" by Charles Derber, Yale R. Magrass (Routledge/Getty/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Who deserves safety and who doesn't?

Charles Derber, Yale R. Magrass
(AP/Andrew Harnik)

Outing the CIA's "queen of terror"

John Duffy, Ray Nowosielski
(Getty/PeskyMonkey)

Dressing modestly for feminism and faith

Lauren Shields
Superboy #78 (Superman family TM & © DC Comics)

The gay appeal of superheroes

Bill Schelly
The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland's Fight for Freedom by Tim Pat Coogan; Michael Collins (Getty/Hulton Archive/Skyhorse Publishing)

Giving an Irish revolutionary his due

Tim Pat Coogan
Justin Torres (Gregory Crowley)

Queer lit in a time of triumph

Justin Torres
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2727070p1.html'>Konstantin Tronin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

What moms get in return

Danya Ruttenberg
Mary Elizabeth Williams (Chris Carroll)

My “rapidly fatal” diagnosis

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"

We are hard-wired for polygamy

David P. Barash
Malcolm Gladwell (Hachette Book Group)

Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong

Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-150667p1.html'>GWImages</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Secrets of the penny candy jar

Susan Benjamin
Ronald McDonald (AP/Dennis Cook)

This is why you crave beef

Marta Zaraska
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-52959p1.html'>Piotr Marcinski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The big oral sex fallacy

Peggy Orenstein
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-277009p1.html'>Photographee.eu</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Your affair might be illegal

Deborah L. Rhode
Zach Anner (Jon Risinger)

"The sexiest of the palsies"

Zachary Dean Anner
Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton gives the thumbs up sign as he speaks to a gathering at the University of Toledo in 1992. (AP)

Clinton's odious presidency

Thomas Frank
A photo of the author. (Michael Kerner Photography)

My 11th time kicking heroin

Tracey Helton Mitchell
(AP/Reuters/Photo montage by Salon)

South's whites won't surrender

Curtis White
(AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Toby Talbot/J. Scott Applewhite)

Exposing climate denial lies

Wen Stephenson
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