# science
Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.
# tech
According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.
# politics
People of faith contribute to society in countless ways. Fundamentalists, however, are a millstone around its neck.
# tech
DARPA wants a program that can monitor your actions and predict your every move. Is that even remotely plausible?
# science
A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?
# oddities
Trying to debunk conspiracy theories alongside search results might just convince conspiracy theorists that the search engines are in on the sinister scheme they're researching.
# tech
We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.
# tech
A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
# politics
The self-proclaimed radical transparency activist who wants to hold the world's right and powerful accountable is getting awfully chummy with Putin & Co...
# science
When creationists try to frame studies of evolutionary mechanisms as proof of a deity, they have their arguments exactly in reverse.
# science
According to a group of Belgian scientists, neutrons switch universes when they decay because they decay when they switch universes.
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# astrobiology
As vast empires on Earth once learned, claiming an immense territory doesn't mean controlling it.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
# science
How do we shake people out of the cozy realities they tend to build for themselves online?
