# tech
A popular philosophical objection to life extension is that it would allow terrible people to live longer. The problem is that there will always be terrible people.
# tech
People are trying to scan their brains into computers neuron by neuron to continue life as machines.
# tech
Xanadu was the ultimate nightmare project for any programmer. And we're lucky it was never completed, much less lived up to its lofty goals.
# tech
First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.
# tech
If you're going to network thousands of important devices together, make sure your network is actually secure.
# health
Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
# space
One of the most destructive and hardest to defend against weapons we could build would be an inert slug of exotic alloys that does its damage using nothing but speed. A lot of speed.
# science
Sometimes it's hot for a couple of weeks. But sometimes, that heat wave is part of a pattern that hints at bad things to come...
# science
The existence of the Higgs boson has been confirmed and the Standard Model is upheld yet again. Now what?
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# space
All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# space
Are we looking at a repeat of the Space Race, this time against China?
# politics
Religious fundamentalists are deeply offended that people no longer fear them and feel free to criticize their worst habits.
# politics
A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.
