# tech
A look inside the secret plot to use porn to... help replace human women with sex bots because reasons?
# tech
Brain-machine interfaces are developing at a rapid pace. But don't expect to order implants on demand anytime soon.
# tech
Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.
# oddities
David Icke is warning people to avoid the new swine flu vaccine to foil the sinister agenda of reptilian aliens who secretly rule the world.
# space
We've seen gas giants orbiting so close to their stars, their atmospheres are being stripped off. COROT-7b may show us what happens at the end of that process.
# space
Earth's worst thunderstorms have nothing on the storms that envelop gas giants, especially Saturn...
# health
Quack extraordinaire Mike Adams has crossed a line from typical snake oil salesmanship to predatory fear-mongering.
# tech
MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.
# space
It's actually a good thing there's a debate about whether to classify Pluto as a planet or something else.
# science
Like a dog trying to mark every tree, the Templeton Foundation is trying to mark every scientific breakthrough as being motivated entirely by religion.
# oddities
Today, if you want to get famous and turn being you into a career you join a reality TV show. But back in the day, you had to pretend to be a blood-drinking, virgin-sacrificing Satanist...
# science
A number of researchers and utopian pundits are promising radical life extension, if not unlimited lifespans. But the science behind their claims is shaky to non-existent.
# science
Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.
# tech
Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.
# politics
Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.
