# evolution
Weird Things talks to the Texas Freedom Network about keeping science in science class despite the state's best efforts to gut it.
# health
Woo and junk science are big business. And why wouldn't they be? They're free from the limits of what's real.
# tech
Making robots compete for survival like living things shows us how some complex behaviors like altruism and parasitism might have evolved.
# politics
After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
# tech
Let's review the seminal paper which gave rise to the idea that enough computers reading enough data at the right speed will eventually create a super-intelligent entity.
# politics
Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
# science
Don't you wish there was a handy checklist to quickly and easily detect junk science online? Well, you're in luck...
# sex
There's a lot of pseudoscience lurking in sex positive communities. But how did it get there in the first place?
# science
Well, the good news is that there might not be an aging gene. The bad news is that there might not be an aging genes.
# science
According to an anti-science demagogue, teaching evolution and being an atheist is banned by law.
# science
Unfortunately, some of the most popular sci-fi weapons are only impressive because they sound cool...
# space
Spike Psarris tries to explain why evolution and a 13 billion year old are lies because... the planet Mercury is a little too dense for his tastes?
# tech
Ray Kurzweil's idea that one day, he will live on as software is beginning to take on the trappings of a faith.
# education
While parodies are rife on the internet, some people to go extreme lengths to keep their children from questioning their beliefs.
