# tech
"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"
# science
The Journal of Cosmology is closing its doors. Bloggers relying on clicks from picking apart deeply flawed studies are devastated.
# evolution
Christina fundamentalists may want to ban evolution from schools, but Muslim fundamentalists want to kill anyone who teaches it.
# science
Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.
# science
No matter how good the intentions, designing the babies of a future generations is simply not going to work in the long term.
# oddities
Sometimes looking through the spam trap leads you down a path of abject insanity...
# astrobiology
Just because a planet was ejected from its solar system doesn't mean its oceans can't stay liquid long enough to host some basic life.
# space
A neutron star that suddenly cooled gives us a hint at what's going on in its superheated innards.
# politics
Cranks, quacks, and peddlers of woo would love for skeptics to tone down their criticism. In fact, they'd like us to stop it completely.
# space
Another day, another exercise in nearly unfalsifiable numerology from arXiv...
# politics
Religious apologists sure do love their fantasies of how unbelievers will be tortured in the fires of Hell...
# space
The future of space exploration should be one of our top priorities as a species. Unfortunately, its continuation, much less success, is not guaranteed.
# science
Playing peekaboo with weather and mistaking it for climate across the entire planet is really not something to advertise publicly...
# oddities
Scientology presents itself as a religion of the future, but its former members tell the story of an abusive, criminal cult obsessed with money, power, and blackmailing its followers.
# health
The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.
