| December 2 |
- Big Think: Is monogamy passé?
- Sexologist Michael Perelman answers questions about sexual dysfunction and pleasure.
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| December 3 |
- Bateman: Gen. Barry McCaffrey on "Hardball"
- You are watching an infomercial trying to sell you a war that you don't want.
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| December 8 |
- Big Think: On desegregation and Thomas Jefferson
- Annette Gordon-Reed on how her schooling informed her perspective as a historian.
- The best fiction of 2008
- Laura Miller on the best reads of the year and why fiction is a great way to explore who we really are.
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| December 9 |
- The best nonfiction of 2008
- Laura Miller on her favorite reads of the year -- books about movies, detectives, the war on terror.
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| December 10 |
- Bateman: Bush's "uh-oh" moment
- The president assures Charlie Gibson that every day at the White House has been joyous.
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| December 15 |
- Big Think: "That was my only dream, to be a novelist"
- Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany discusses his creative process and his other profession: Dentistry.
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| December 17 |
- Bateman: Let the war crimes trial begin!
- ABC's Jonathan Karl asks Cheney about waterboarding and other tactics used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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| December 20 |
- "Phantom Limbs," a Christmas short
- The animated tale of one little creature that learns to fly.
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| December 22 |
- Big Think: Is there an objective reality?
- Professor of economics at MIT Dan Ariely on how expectation affects perception and why you shouldn't go grocery shopping on an empty stomach.
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| December 24 |
- Bateman: Rick Warren sure is an expert on being gay
- The cartoonist responds to an interview with the pastor about science and "reining in your natural impulses."
- Salon critics pick flix
- Stephanie Zacharek and Andrew O'Hehir talk about their favorite movies of 2008.
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| December 26 |
- "I chose to forget everything I could"
- Watch Andrew O'Hehir interview "Waltz With Bashir" director Ari Folman about the process of remembering the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
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