RYAN BRODERICK

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We're All Doomed: Birth Control Pills For Men

A "new wave of research":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/07/wanted-new-birth-control-choices-for-men.html is looking for more diverse birth control options for men. Two methods being worked on right now include a daily pill for making sperm...
RYAN BRODERICK
3.16.12
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We're All Doomed: Christmas Forever

Winter holidays are important. Whatever holiday you spend your November and December celebrating, they all kind of attempt to fix the same problem: winter is cold and dark and makes you think about your own mortality. And the attempt to fix this...
RYAN BRODERICK
12.5.11
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We're All Doomed: We're Going To Keep Ourselves Awake To Death

I'm a digital native and I don't sleep much anymore and those two things are absolutely related. I live on the internet, I've grown up on it. I was using a dial-up connection via my monthly Earthlink subscription to steal mp3s off Kazaa, only to...
RYAN BRODERICK
11.4.11
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We're All Doomed: I Would Like to Have Sex With Siri

_In We're All Doomed, amateur futurist (read: paranoid alarmist with access to Wikipedia) Ryan Broderick dissects the news of the week in an effort to prove that the world is probably going to end much too soon._
RYAN BRODERICK
10.21.11
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We're All Doomed: Protesting Can't Solve Anything Anymore

_An amateur futurist (read: paranoid alarmist with access to Wikipedia) dissects the news of the week in an attempt to prove that the end times aren't near, they're here._ The Occupy Wall Street protests, and their nationaloff-shoots, are incredibly...
RYAN BRODERICK
10.7.11
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We're All Doomed: Facebook's Giant Reality Show

You probably haven't heard anything about this at all, except on the Internet, but there's a new Facebook layout coming out. The mainstream media usually doesn't put much of a spotlight on social media stuff, and blogs never pick it up, not wanting...
RYAN BRODERICK
9.23.11
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We're All Doomed: Old People Feel Young and Young People Feel Old

I’ve felt old since I turned 19. I turn 22 next month and I feel like I’m about to disintegrate into dust. I blame my heightened sensitivity to age on the fact that I listened to too much emo in high school. I also blame the lousy economy, which has...
RYAN BRODERICK
9.9.11
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We're All Doomed: The Economy's Not Getting Better And We're All Going To Starve

I’m not an economist. It goes against my personal philosophy that the economy works by the same principle as a really large scale version of pushing your food around your plate in an attempt to fool your parents into believing you finished your dinner...
RYAN BRODERICK
9.2.11
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We're All Doomed: Immortality Will Kill Us All

Like all writers, I welcome death, because if you ask me, life is a lot more trouble than it’s worth. But if you’re not like me--waiting for unending oblivion while you blog about cats for 25 cents a word--then perhaps this will excite you. We’re...
RYAN BRODERICK
8.26.11
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We're All Doomed: Genetic Remixing

_In his weekly column, amateur futurist (read: paranoid alarmist with access to Wikipedia) Ryan Broderick will be dissecting the news of the week in an effort to prove that the world is probably going to end very soon and we're all doomed._ A long...
RYAN BRODERICK
8.12.11
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We're All Doomed: Dialing Up Our Evolution On the Brain Party Line

_In his weekly column, amateur futurist (read: paranoid alarmist with access to Wikipedia) Ryan Broderick will be dissecting the news of the week in an effort to prove that the world is probably going to end very soon and we're all doomed._ Whenever...
RYAN BRODERICK
8.4.11
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Traveling Down the Silk Road to Buy Drugs With Bitcoins

There simply must be a more dignified way to procure illegal substances.
RYAN BRODERICK
6.24.11
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