# science
Scientifically illiterate politicians on the cultural warpath and their fans convinced millions that scientists lead a charmed life in ivory towers. Spoiler alert: they do not.
# politics
The Catholic Church has a thousand year old history of various sexual abuses they successfully kept from the law. Their recent scandals merely reveal how they've always operated.
# oddities
S.E. Cupp's profound insight: if liberals agree with the tenets of evolution, teaching science must be a conspiracy to destroy America.
# science
If you're looking for surreal, downright astounding beauty and wonder, all you need to do is look up and ask some questions about what's happening in the night sky...
# politics
Somehow, instead of becoming a de facto standard, environmentally-friendly products have become an expensive, must-have accessory.
# politics
Unfortunately for those of us who'd like to remain alive and not irradiated, the ghost of Mutually Assured Destruction lives on.
# science
Could the laws of physics step in to prevent attempts at radical life extension?
# science
Can we destroy the world with nukes? It depends on who you ask and what kinds of warheads and damage they include in their calculations...
# tech
Bill McKibben isn't worried that the Technological Singularity will never happen. He's worried it will usher in an era of fascist ubermensch who will destroy humanity as we know it.
# tech
Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...
# evolution
Deepak Chopra's fluffy quantum creationist woo has a new imitator and he's ready to disappoint readers with a buzzword salad of an essay.
# science
With friends like accommodationists, science advocates don't need any enemies.
# space
Politicians still can't figure out exactly what they want NASA to be or do. And that's hurting both its budget and its ability to plan.
# education
According to the Center For Inquiry, science teachers can't tell students the Earth is not 6,000 years old and life as we know it evolved through natural selection and mutations.
# space
Something is wrong in the data we get when we measure distances to far away quasars to see how fast the universe is expanding.
