# space
If we return to the Moon and decide to stay there, the Moon may offer us a few shortcuts in setting up a safe place to live.
# health
Soda taxes can curb consumption of sugary drinks, but their benefits are vastly oversold and the problems we're facing need a more holistic approach.
# space
A new paper concludes that black holes are periodically giving birth to new universes. How it arrives at that conclusion raises a lot of questions.
# space
Young Earth astrophysicist Jason Lisle is ready to publish a paper with evidence of light traveling faster than science says it does. Well, depending on what you mean by "publish" and "evidence" that is...
# oddities
Someone should tell Reverend Robert Barro that "believe what I say or God will smite you" is not a logical or morally upstanding argument in favor of one's religion.
# science
Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.
# science
At what point do considering the limits of our knowledge and different ways of understanding turn into pointless navel-gazing?
# health
Australian health watchdogs give the country's most rabid anti-vaxers a scathing rebuke, but doesn't go beyond giving them a slap on the wrist.
# science
Alt med skeptic David Colquhoun warns professional bloggers that money will taint their coverage, vastly estimating how much blogging pays.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut theory is basically creationism for people who don't believe in the supernatural, as Lloyd Pye demonstrates.
# science
Protons might be a little smaller than we thought, and that means we may need to rewrite a lot of the rules we thought we understood about the quantum world.
# science
Pepsi's presence on ScienceBlogs caused an extreme overreaction and revealed a major lack of foresight, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea in the first place.
# science
Can we recreate life on Earth after a mass extinction? And if we could, do we really want to?
# politics
Turns out that one of the stories Chris Mooney used to build his case against angry atheists ruining science education for everyone was created out of thin air by a fabulist.
# science
Pepsi's venture into ScienceBlogs has been a rare slow-motion train wreck, from the internecine blog wars to waves of bloggers heading for the exits.
