# science
Giving until it hurts is a feel good battlecry, not a viable strategy for development and progress.
# science
The author of the roundly criticized anti-GMO study appeared to know it wouldn't be well received, which is why he threatened to sue any vocal critic before the publication date.
# politics
In an effort to cater to religious fundamentalists in its ranks, the Israeli Defense Force is letting religious sexism compromise battle readiness.
# science
A new experiment is attempting to find out whether we may be living in some sort of simulation.
# sex
Stephen Crowder's attempt to encourage abstinence until marriage among teenagers and adults inadvertently shows all the downsides to this approach.
# tech
To keep the stock market under human control, should we crack down on high frequency trading algorithms and what they can do?
# sex
PornHub wants to raise money for breast cancer research and got shot down by prominent charities. That was a huge mistake.
# tech
The problem with the supposed Russian attack on an American water treatment plant isn't the false alarm, it's how Congress and the DHS reacted.
# science
Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.
# sex
A study from South Korea claims that castration can add years of male life expectancy. But on further analysis, there may be some issues with how it arrived at this conclusion.
# space
A new paper argues that nothing ever really falls into a black hole thanks to extreme time dilation and frame dragging.
# space
A new estimate for the energy required to power a warp drive puts the theoretical technology well within the realm of plausibility.
# tech
Military bureaucrats and the public is learning how messy and complicated huge programming projects can be thanks to the F-35.
# evolution
Creationists aren't happy with scientists' discoveries showing dinosaurs not as giant brutes, but diverse, nimble, and often bird-like.
# sex
A number of sex positive communities are confusing a healthy attitude about sex and sexuality with more and kinkier sex, and shaming those who aren't as adventurous.
