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A couple of questions about water on other planets.

At least 24 gallons of water were discovered on the moon when NASA researchers slammed a satellite into a lunar crater last month. "We practically tasted it with the impact," said one member of the mission team on Friday. In a pair of "Explainer" ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NASA

What's the deal with "cat ladies"?

A Virginia judge declared on Monday that 82-year-old Ruth Knueven is unfit to own pets, after animal-control officers seized her 488 cats. Local law enforcement and animal-control officials say they found 120 cats in her house in 2001 and that they've ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  8 Nov 2009

Are shootings at military bases common, or was Fort Hood unusual?

HOME / explainer: Answers to your questions about the news. Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer. Is There a Lot of Crime on Military Bases?: Not as much as you'd think. Daniel Engber is a senior editor at Slate. He can be reached at . ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

It doesn't make sense to charge fat people higher insurance premiums.

Burd has spent the last several months making supersized claims about this incentive-based approach to health care. In June, he told the Senate that if the government had adopted a Safeway-style program in 2004, we'd have saved $600 billion by now. ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Safeway Inc.

Is Chris Christie too fat to win an election in New Jersey?

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm slightly overweight," said Chris Christie on Friday, during his second gubernatorial debate with incumbent Jon Corzine. "Apparently this has become a great case for discussion in the state. I don't know what that has ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christopher J. Christie,  Jon Corzine,  U.S. Republican Party,  Cory Booker

Idea Lab: The Fat and Short of It

At nearly 6 feet 2 inches and about 175 pounds, Barack Obama may be the slimmest president since the Civil War. His body-mass index hovers near 23, well within the healthy range and somewhat to the left on the bell curve of American bodies. Perhaps he ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, International Herald Tribune,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  Cornell University

Science, politics, obesity, and health care reform.

"Let Them Drink Water: What a fat tax really means for America," posted Sept. 21, 2009. Would raising the price on sweetened beverages move the nation toward an apartheid of pleasure in which poor people must drink from the faucet while the rich enjoy ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  5 Oct 2009

The health effects of discrimination against fat people.

Just about every discussion of obesity and health care begins with same purported fact: The diseases associated with excess weight are impoverishing the nation with $147 billion in unnecessary medical bills every year. In my last column ("Give Us ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  5 Oct 2009

Does poverty make people obese, or is it the other way around?

In my last column ("Let Them Drink Water!"), I suggested that a tax on sweetened soft drinks would move the nation toward an apartheid of pleasure in which the poor must drink from the faucet while the rich enjoy superpremium fruit juice. I also argued ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  28 Sep 2009

Why would Iran need so many centrifuges to make a nuclear warhead?

Iranian officials confirmed on Friday that a new uranium-enrichment facility has been constructed near the ancient city of Qom. Intelligence reports claim it can house up to 3,000 centrifuges—enough to make a nuclear warhead, but not enough to fuel a ...

From DANIEL ENGBER, Slate,  25 Sep 2009

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