Today In Slate: Ken Jennings on Playing Jeopardy! Against a Computer; Plus, a New Prudie

Today: February 17, 2011 My Puny Human Brain Jeopardy! genius Ken Jennings on what it's like to play against a supercomputer. By Ken Jennings READ FULL STORY | More Arts What Happened to the Women A grand jury says Kermit Gosnell mistreated and killed abortion patients. Why did nobody stop him? By William Saletan READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics On a Mission The new Broadway musical by the creators of South Park isn't anti-Mormon. Like all of their work, it's anti-stupidity. By Christopher Beam READ FULL STORY | More Arts How GOP Efforts To Redefine Rape Could Help Democrats Win Back Independent Voters What's the Best Kind of Movie To Watch on TV? Cell Phone Taxes Are Insanely, Indefensibly High How Google Is Turning Data Into Something Beautiful and Alluring Advertisement The True History of How Sane Parents Got Paranoid About Vaccines   Briefing Libya protests: Why hasn't Qaddafi promoted himself above colonel rank? Japan might cancel this year's whale hunt season. What does whale meat taste like, anyway? Arts Cézanne's card players at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frank Gehry's New World Center in Miami is his best work in years. (PHOTOS) Life My husband showers with our 5-year-old. Is it time to stop the communal bathing? Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it's like to play against a machine. Business & Tech How does the NYSE make money? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: They're not going anywhere. Science Watson can win at Jeopardy, but how would it do at poker? Landfills: Are we running out of room for our garbage? Podcasts & Video Lara Logan attack, a new bullying study, and alleged murderer Julie Schenecker: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest. MoMA's Abstract Expressionist New York, John Adams' Nixon in China at the Met, and the Westminster Dog Show on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast.

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