# science
Hyperventilating right wing conspiracy theories about climate science have inspired their less stable listeners to send a constant barrage of death threats and hate mail to climatologists.
# science
A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
# evolution
Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.
# astrobiology
Another entry in the quickly growing HuffPo library of woo shows that all creationism is basically the same in the end.
# politics
In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.
# oddities
For some inexplicable reason, Nature decided to publish a paranoid parable about tyrannical New Atheists lobotomizing Christians into depression and loneliness.
# tech
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
# science
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# science
Chris Mooney is back with another rendition of the Unscientific America debacle to cement his status as the human version of a broken record.
# tech
If you froze yourself in a cryogenic chamber, would anyone actually want to unfreeze you in the future?
# science
The media's mea culpa for their rampant journalistic malpractice during Climategate comes way too late, is far too little, and has long ago accomplished denialists' goals.
# tech
Despite the popular rumor, you can't hack a speed camera XKCD-style with some code on your license plate.
# science
We often worry about parents customizing their children into their warped idea of perfection. But what if the future parents want to put a limitation their kid's abilities?
# tech
Machine vision still has a long way to go before it can do something as simple as identify objects at a slight angle.
# tech
Tomorrow, it's Weird Things vs. transhumanist George Dvorksy on Skeptically Speaking.
