Beat the Internet, Throw Like a Girl: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing

Eleanor Barkhorn & Spencer Kornhaber Sep 15 2012, 9:20 AM ET

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Welcome to our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about pop culture we've come across in the past seven days. Click the links in the article titles to read the full pieces, and let us know what we've missed:

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Eleanor Barkhorn & Spencer Kornhaber

Eleanor Barkhorn and Spencer Kornhaber are senior associate editors at The Atlantic.

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