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The Explainer questions we never answered in 2008. - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
Speed Explainer: Can We Trust Track-and-Field Records? The Explainer has completed another year of valuable community service. Over the last 12 months, we've told you how to interrogate a small child and given instructions for turning a human skull into a sweet bong . Regular readers learned how ...
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The Agitator — ... One of my favorite more recent year-end traditions: Unanswered questions sent to the authors of Slate’s “Explainer” column. ...

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Overlawyered — Found here and there on the web, some matters on topic, some not: Will non-violent drug offenders be unlikely beneficiaries of the economic downturn? Speaking of offenders, have a look at Scott Greenfield’s thoughts on forty years of Miranda v. Arizona. (The “right to remain silent…” warning achieves neither what its authors hoped nor what its opponents feared); Every question some very strange people ever wanted to ask Slate’s Explainer, but were still unable to get a satisfactory answer on.  (Via dispatches from TJICistan); ...

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