# health
The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.
# politics
Congressman Lamar Smith desperately wants another Climategate and he's happy to abuse his power to manufacture one.
# health
Media reports about the carcinogenic properties of bacon have been greatly exaggerated thanks to the extremely confusing way IARC classifies studies.
# tech
The bad news is that we can't wipe offensive speech and trolls off the web. The good news is that trolls tend to turn on each other quickly.
# tech
After analyzing millions of comments researchers can say for sure that the best way to deal with trolls is with deafening silence.
# tech
Amazon is not a nice or fun place to work, even if you're one of its supposedly vaunted techies. But it's not like we expect any better from a company that big.
# politics
The problem with wealth inequality isn't that it exists, it's how easily the 1% are running up the score and how angry they are that they're not being uniformly worshipped.
# tech
If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.
# health
A study tracking the benefits of standing desks shows no difference in health outcomes between sitting and standing at the office.
# astrobiology
An alien civilization's megaproject is very unlikely to be responsible for the weird signals from a strange star. But we can't entirely rule it out...
# science
A new study showing that your through patterns are unique enough to be seen on a brain scan is being misinterpreted as a test run of an IQ detector.
# science
A study of conspiracy theorists shows that conspiratorial ideation is actually a political, not a logical matter.
# health
We finally know why elephants are more resistant to cancers than humans. Can we use the same strategy they do?
# politics
A plan to save the planet by letting half of it revert to a wilderness may not be as unrealistic as it seems at first blush.
# space
According to pictures from New Horizon, in the darkest, deepest reaches of our solar system, you could stand on the summit of a mountain covered by exotic ices and look up at hazy blue skies.
