# tech
Kurzweil is starting to appreciate that he's been oversimplifying how the human brain works. But his latest iteration of a theory of mind still leaves much to be desired.
# oddities
Secret and occult societies make easy targets for conspiracy theorists. But there's a good reason why so many seem to exist at any given point, and it has nothing to do with world conquest.
# tech
A group of Republicans is trying to advance a conspiracy theory that Romney's campaign tool to detect voter fraud was sabotaged from the inside.
# tech
It's not just the Home Alone vibe of Skyfall that should irk viewers...
# science
Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
# tech
A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.
# astrobiology
It's one thing when people can't explain the weird things they see in the night sky. But what if a UFO sighting takes place over a military base and high ranking officers have no idea what happened?
# oddities
With the Soviet space program often shrouded in secrecy, there are many tales of cosmonauts whose grim fates were deliberately omitted from the country's history.
# science
Scientists found a way to temporary induce psychopathy in text subjects, and that has some mulling the darker applications of this technology.
# science
Andrea Rossi is still keeping up his cold fusion scam and taking a community of fervent believers for a ride in the process.
# politics
Elevatorgate was an incident worth talking about and what it means for the future of skeptical conferences. Watson turned it into a personal brand instead.
# tech
Data centers are getting a bum rap, but behind the scenes, they're working hard on trying to keep the internet more reliable and their power usage more efficient.
# tech
Policy wonks are trying to wrap their minds around how to fight a war in cyberspace, but their thinking keeps defaulting to conventional warfare.
# space
Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
# science
We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
