# space
A proposal for a Martian habitat wants to use the power of water for both structural support and radiation shielding.
# science
Tractor beams aren't just for aliens cruising Earth and looking for people to abduct anymore. In fact, you can build one yourself.
# science
With no faith in politicians to help combat global warming, some scientists are turning to geo-engineering as a possible solution.
# tech
Programmer Maciej Ceglowski refuses to fall for the Gospel of the Nerd Rapture and offers a novel idea for giving people a more realistic idea of what AI really is.
# tech
Next year will focus on reviewing what to do with old project and experimenting with new ones.
# politics
It's been a long, rough year for anyone who wasn't hoping to set the modern world back by half a century.
# longform
Moral crusaders insist that porn is the mother of all modern social ills, but every scrap of data we have suggests they couldn't be more wrong.
# tech
District Attorneys are going to try mandating encryption backdoors again and refuse to understand why it can't be done without cratering the modern economy.
# oddities
The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
# science
For millennials, the first step to happiness and a productive life may to forget pretty much everything boomer culture tried to teach them.
# science
Climate change denialists have ran out of contrarian theories so they decided to recycle an old one.
# politics
If the incoming backwards-looking Trump administration refuses to work with the future-focused tech industry, it can find another world leader who will.
# oddities
A new experiment shows that ridicule as almost as effective as debunking when it comes to dissuading people from falling for conspiracy theories.
# science
Transgenderism and gender fluidity are complicated topics which may be why the media and political partisans are treating them with the subtlety and nuance of a runaway bulldozer.
# politics
The media and boomers are obsessed with millennial and college phenomena that are barely a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.
