# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
# space
We just found the Higgs boson, and already a few scientists think it might be responsible for destroying the universe on a random day in the unspecified future.
# tech
Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.
# politics
Pope Ratzinger is giving up his post. This is by far the best and only morally correct thing he did as pope.
# tech
Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.
# science
Massive volcanic eruptions leave their mark on the climate record we can gleam from tree rings. And some scientists have new ideas for how to best track them...
# space
Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
# tech
If you're a Silicon Valley founder without a new idea, you can always just steal and existing one and paper over it with buzzwords, as David Gelernter demonstrates...
# oddities
Alt med ghoul Mike Adams has a perfect culprit behind school shootings and as per usual, gets every detail absolutely wrong.
# health
Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
# tech
If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...
# tech
Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
# tech
If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.
# sex
Technology may be playing a big role in killing courtship as our parents and grandparents knew it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
# tech
No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.
