# tech
Online advertisers are starting to cross into downright stalkerish behavior...
# tech
How could it be harder to lie online if you can hide your identity? Well, the internet never forgets a fib...
# health
Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
# politics
Despite the constant gloom and doom, the world is actually safer, wealthier, and less violent than it's ever been in recorded history.
# science
A new technology to tap into individual neurons offers amazing possibilities for prosthetics and intricate implants.
# tech
No matter how tamed the web of the future will be, it will always have its wild, adults-only parts.
# tech
Transhumanism is a common theme in comic books. But which one of the scenarios they present has the most scientific merit?
# tech
Michio Kaku talks quantum computing at Big Think. It doesn't go well. It doesn't go well at all.
# oddities
What does it take to sway an atheist? Skeptical bloggers weigh in...
# tech
Newspapers are still on the warpath against bloggers and it's not working out for them.
# space
Even if aliens would try to invade and conquer us, they're probably not going to be in a hurry to do so or even want to spend the effort...
# space
We're here for an exciting time, not a long time. And we should use that time doing something fun and constructive.
# politics
When humanity tries to be at its best in the wake of a tragedy, the bowels of the internet hand out megaphones to some of its worst members.
# tech
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
# space
Before closing its doors forever, the Journal of Cosmology lobs one last volley for its theory of panspermia and it's a... well, it's certainly something.
