# science
By neglecting their scientists and educations, politicians aren't saving money for their citizens, they're undermining their countries' future.
# health
The self-proclaimed investigative journalist for the anti-vax blog Age of Autism is doing the only thing he knows how to do: play six degrees of Big Pharma.
# space
Two astronomers think they found evidence in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation that the amount of dark matter in the universe is far smaller than currently thought.
# tech
The city of San Francisco wants cell phone makers to display information showing that their phones are harmless in the most menacing and confusing way possible.
# tech
Joe Lieberman decided that the best way to tackle cyber-security is by literally shutting off the country's internet on demand with nothing more than an executive order by the president.
# tech
IBM has big plans for its Watson engine. Question is whether it will live up to the hype.
# health
Despite the gloom and doom you see on the news, we're actually making huge strides in improving medicine and have a pretty good handle on what the media insists are crises.
# tech
If Nicholas Carr's attention span has been undermined by technology, he reasons that so has everyone else's and it's his duty to warn us.
# astrobiology
Some of this blog's readers would make really scary and really good alien invaders...
# politics
While faitheists and accommodationists urge atheists to be nice to religious zealots, the most fervent believers feel no need to treat atheists and other faithful as human, much less worthy of respect.
# science
Dr. Robert Lanza thinks he's discovered the secret of immortality and it's something very quantum and involving rebooting time loops...
# space
While we lament the high cost of exploring space, the truth is that we have the money and plenty of it, plus, investing in R&D will yield trillions in economic development.
# tech
A Singularitarian group wants to make you immortal using nothing more than all your secrets and keepsakes...
# science
Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...
# space
We absolutely want private companies to go explore space and take paying customers with them, but we'll also need a fair bit of regulation.
