# politics
Living under constant surveillance does have some benefits like deterring crime and catching frauds and cheats, argues Charles Kenny.
# tech
The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.
# tech
A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.
# tech
Newspapers are attacking online services with which they could partner out of sheer desperation.
# education
Companies need colleges to educate their next generation of workers. Yet they're refusing to work with them, or even train their employees for that matter.
# education
Studies about America's supposed shortfalls in STEM education have been taken at face value for years. But a thorough review casts doubt on their methods and conclusions.
# space
Europa is one of the most promising places to find alien life in our solar system, but exploring the moon isn't as easy as just landing on the surface and starting to drill and probe.
# oddities
The Illuminati's next target in their sinister plans to subjugate the world? Your cozy all-American McMansion and white picket fence suburb...
# space
Printing outposts on the Moon is all the rage for mission planners. And if they succeed, we will all feel the benefits here on Earth.
# politics
Of all the ways we objectify each other, adult entertainment and sport fighting are hardly the worst in the grand scheme of things.
# space
A passive, cramped fly-by of Mars just to say we did it is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.
# space
Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
# politics
What used to be known as skeptical blogging has lost the skepticism and gained a lot of tabloid style drama and cultural think pieces.
# space
Early concept drawings from the shuttle program shows us that the end result was full of shortcuts that should not have been taken for the benefit of humanity's space-faring future.
# science
A new experiment unlocks quantum behaviors that can make laser beams more cohesive and negotiate more complicated trajectories.
