# tech
A little coding fun with hash maps and delegates for trivial parallelization...
# oddities
Remember the Satanic Panic of the 1990s and the various cranks promoting it? It turns out they never quite moved on to something else...
# sex
The writer of the most popular and influential pro-abstinence literature is now regretting his work.
# politics
In American history, conspiracy theorists taking out their frustrations at the ballot box are far from an anomaly.
# space
We typically think of Earth as an ideal world for habitability, but what we've discovered so far hints at us being an oddball.
# space
Meet the first independent human nation in space. Without an actual presence in space and an iffy plan for how to get there...
# tech
The start of a new experiment for a new era of blogging.
# space
Yuri Milner wants to explore Alpha Centauri with a tiny spaceship propelled by the biggest and most powerful laser cannon ever built. That may be a lot harder than it sounds.
# oddities
Buckle up for a classic DARPA mass brainwashing/mind control conspiracy with an identity theft twist...
# space
When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.
# politics
Baby Boomers are very upset with Millennials for trying to make work more meaningful and comfortable after watching them suffer.
# education
Tenure is not a magical keep-your-job-forever-no-matter-what card. It's vital protection for scientists whose research might not sit well with ideologues and partisan tribalists on college boards.
# health
We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.
# tech
George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...
# politics
Universal Basic Income seems like a compassionate, forward-looking idea. But in reality, it's little more than a band aid that needs a lot more thought.
