# oddities
Western occultists don't worship demons, aliens, or chaotic entities from beyond the stars. So what do they consider a higher power?
# evolution
Cancer has been with us since the dawn of life and may be the price life pays for multi-cellularity.
# health
How to read a medication's potentially terrifying list of side-effects and keep your sanity.
# tech
Antimatter-powered spacecraft just got a step closer to reality. But of course, there are some big caveats...
# science
Does subliminal advertising really work? The man who claims to have invented it tried to test its efficacy and his results are instructive.
# astrobiology
People have been seeing weird, saucer-shaped objects in the sky half a century before the UFO craze took off in America.
# oddities
How passionate letters become books, and books become sacred texts.
# politics
A new space race may be on, and this one will have far more competitors aiming to go to the Moon and stay there longer than the others.
# astrobiology
If the Plains of Cydonia on Mars are an alien temple complex, who built it and why?
# science
Evolution in action: an obscure mutation may render some humans immune to AIDS.
# science
It's all fun and games until a mad scientists with a big enough lab makes a banana-duck...
# politics
We need to lift the ban on embryonic stem cell research if we want to help millions of people who suffer from complex degenerative diseases.
# science
When you use the word "plausible" when talking about movies, make sure it means what you think it means.
# education
Just how much should we be allowed to discuss creationism in science class? It depends who's discussing it and why.
