# space
Black holes are such complex entities that just being trapped in one's gravity creates a cascade of paradoxes...
# oddities
Have you ever felt there was something off about mornings? That something about early hours and industries catering to its victims didn't quite add up? So did I...
# politics
If we're going to meet the challenges of the future, we're going to need a plan and that plan starts with education...
# tech
Not only are robots stealing your job, more often than not, you're helping them with nowhere to go after receiving your pink slip...
# politics
Extreme inequality caused by runaway capital gains is eating away at the global economy. But high taxes on passive income won't be a panacea.
# politics
Atheists will not outshout religious zealots because the zealots will drag them down to a reality and fact-free screaming match and beat them with experience.
# science
Instead of erasing and pathologizing transgenderism, we should be studying it to unlock answers to long standing questions about sex and gender.
# tech
Technophobes and worried Singularitarians concerned about a violent AI need to stop worrying about the machines and start worrying about who's programming them.
# oddities
An online conspiracy theory says that the much covered idea for a head transplant is just a guerilla marketing stunt for Konami.
# space
Want a longer, healthier, more exciting life with many quality years in your old age? Support space exploration.
# space
No, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, aren't microwave noodles of impatient astronomers. They're a very real phenomenon the media just can't seem to get right.
# space
If you've heard about the Cold Spot, you may have read that it's caused by a strangely low density of galaxies in that area of the universe. But the truth is much, much weirder...
# space
It turns out that one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is to turn out the lights, lean back, and closely watch a little gravitational galaxy on galaxy action.
# astrobiology
Even before her presidential campaign begins in earnest, Hillary Clinton appears to have the ufologist vote locked up...
# tech
The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.