# education
The trajectory of American higher education is simply unsustainable and something has to give sooner rather than later.
# health
Anti-vaccine activists funded the most complete and thorough study of vaccine safety done to their exact specifications. Now they're livid because it found nothing even remotely concerning.
# sex
AAU's survey of inappropriate sexual behavior did not go smoothly and its results raise a lot of questions about both their methodology and college culture.
# tech
Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.
# tech
Tracking what's happening inside a biological system on a computer is not the same thing as recreating that system.
# oddities
Alex Jones and his fan club are apparently convinced that the drought in California is a sinister New World Order experiment.
# astrobiology
The good news is that Mars had briny oceans usually perfect for life. The bad news is that the brine contained salts used in rocket fuel...
# space
Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
# politics
Numerous studies show that humans have a biological aversion to extreme unfairness and inequality, and lash out when we encounter it.
# space
Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...
# tech
The City of Berkley took on science and the science lost because it was represented by a trade group that argued about free speech rights instead.
# health
Small pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the patent system to jack up the prices of life-saving medication.
# astrobiology
Nick Redfern's publishers really didn't like having his theory debunked...
# tech
A dive into the limitations of using an artificial neural network to reanimate yourself inside a computer.
# tech
Outrage has become the web's most lucrative and eye-catching product, and quite a few news sites have now streamlined its distribution for those sweet, sweet clicks.
