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Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

Amidst all the terror in the face of the barely advancing tide of occasionally deadly swine flu, few have asked what’s happening with the pigs themselves. Slate has the answers, though, and the pigs appear to be doing just fine, not freaking out like us silly humans. That’s great news, too, because now we don’t [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]