Today in Slate: Tweets from Japan; Plus, A History of the Hollywood Sign

Today: March 18, 2011 How Much Radiation Is Too Much? And how do we know? By Jeremy Singer-Vine READ FULL STORY | More Briefing Paying With Your Phone Is Awesome, Because … Because. We already have a perfectly fine way to make non-cash payments. By Farhad Manjoo READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech A History of the Hollywood Sign How an advertisement for a housing development came to represent the movies. By Leo Braudy READ FULL STORY | More Arts 61 Increasingly Urgent Tweets ... Then Silence Why the Washington Post's Plagiarism Scandal Matters Limitless Is Only 10 Percent as Good as It Could Have Been Visa's Handy New System for Paying Your Friends by Credit Card Advertisement Shafer: The NYT Paywall Will Make Everyone Miserable, but It Might Work A $12,000 Gucci Jacket? What To Do When Fashion Gets Too Expensive. Briefing Sarah Palin favorability ratings: Will she run for president? Are there really places where NPR is the only news source? News & Politics The latest updates to Barack Obama's Facebook news feed. Roseanne Barr vs. Sarah Palin: Why the TV star could take on the Mama Grizzlies. Arts Shedding for the Wedding reviewed: fat couples compete for their dream wedding. "Catapult" Life Radioactivity: Why is this blight different from all other blights? 2011 NCAA Tournament: Behind the Butler bench as the Bulldogs keep up their March magic. Business & Tech Do higher wages make you work harder? Do lower wages make you slack off? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Some "Rogue"! Science The Japanese tsunami was among the worst in recent memory. Japan's nuclear disaster: How will we warn posterity about radioactive waste? Podcasts & Video Mel Gibson in The Beaver, Das Racist at SXSW, and the latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre on this week's Culture Gabfest podcast. Manning Up by Kay Hymowitz, the all-girls Pink Academy preschool, and the Middleton family: On this week's DoubleX Gabfest.

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