# tech
Cyborg technology is making huge strides, but it won't make us superhuman. At least not yet...
# oddities
Today is the day to celebrate your favorite cosmic horror, which lays dead-dreaming on the bottom of the ocean.
# science
The King of New Age Woo, Deepak Chopra, goes on the warpath against his many critics.
# tech
The idea that simulating a brain in a computer will yield an intelligent being has become an unshakeable belief amongst Singularitarians.
# science
The Climategate e-mails reveal nothing more than scientists frustrated with predatory denialists and their cherry-picked, bad faith arguments and demands .
# astrobiology
When we really think about it, there could be a lot of reasons alien life can't, or doesn't want to, talk to us besides fear, politics, or timelines.
# tech
Before you let IBM sell you a computer to help lead your company, consider the downsides of outsourcing your strategy to a machine learning algorithm.
# space
Can we turn black holes into a way to explore space at relativistic speeds? A pair of physicists thinks it may be plausible if we have enough powerful lasers...
# health
It really seems homeopaths don't understand basic middle school physics and are hoping you don't either in the asinine pitches for their snake oil.
# science
Responding to climate change denialism and conspiracy theories with apocalyptic hyperbole is turning away the people who need to be persuaded that global warming is a real problem.
# science
Dennis Sewell is back, and this time with an entire book lazily recycling the worst and most thoroughly debunked arguments against evolution and Darwin's work and impact on science.
# tech
Two IBM project leaders are arguing about the results of the Blue Matter experiments. The critics seem to have the upper hand, scientifically speaking.
# science
A supercollider-induced doomsday has been cancelled for the same reason as the previous one, and the one before that.
# politics
The Rhodes Trust is concerned that the financial industry is effectively bribing top notch talent away from politics, science, and technology, and parasitizing our future in the process.
# tech
Researchers at IBM seem to believe that simulating the background activity of the brain will create a conscious, self-aware mind.
