# science
Driven by the need for clicks and eyeballs, media outlets are almost uniformly bad at reporting science stories without giving a platform to cranks and denialists.
# education
A profile of Don McLeroy makes it clear that the Texas Board of Education isn't interested in anything other than blasting students with simplistic, dogmatic propaganda.
# tech
China wants its citizens connected to the internet. Just not the kind of internet where their daily propaganda blitz could be questioned with the click of a mouse...
# space
The best way to find Earth-sized planets is watching them pass between a telescope and their parent star. And we might get a telescope designed to spot precisely that.
# tech
Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.
# politics
Economic theory and reality keep colliding as the Great Recession unfolds, and Wall Street keeps pretending that the theory is winning.
# space
Singularitarians think they figured out the perfect way to travel through space after they upload their minds to machines.
# science
If we ever ended up in the past, it's tempting to think our modern skills would make us rich and famous. But putting those skills to use centuries ago is trickier than it sounds...
# science
WeCU Technologies thinks it can read the minds of would-be terrorists , and they want to test their approach at airports. Unfortunately, their approach is unlikely to work.
# health
A new study links autism to genetic defects passed on by older parents rather than environmental factors.
# tech
Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.
# science
Emboldened by chiropractors suing Simon Singh, anti-vaccine activists are coming after critics and scientists with frivolous but expensive libel claims.
# tech
A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.
# science
Another winter, another season of explaining why global warming doesn't mean you'll be broiled alive in your own sweat.
# space
What happens to particles swallowed by a black hole? The answer could either confirm our understanding of the universe or alter everything we know about it.
