# tech
There's a reason why we can see and understand things robots can't, and that reason might be a cluster of neurons known as V4.
# science
Michio Kaku is an expert in theoretical physics. This is why it's not surprising that he's reciting for sci-fi cliches about evolution instead of the actual science.
# tech
Watson can easily win a trivia contest, but it needs to play anyway to learn how to talk to humans.
# tech
Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.
# tech
The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.
# science
Robert Lanza is back and he thinks he knows how to cheat death and create your own afterlife with some very self-absorbed woo...
# science
According to Mike Adams, homeopathy is superior to actual medicine because it actually doesn't seem to do anything.
# tech
There's a good case for trying to bring the developing world online, but it's going to be hard to get today's financial gatekeepers to sign on to such a project.
# astrobiology
Communication is difficult. Especially with alien beings that evolved tens of light years away and may have no idea we're even trying to communicate.
# tech
It's hard to understate just how ambitious a project to visit another star would have to be in order to truly succeed.
# science
AOL is helping to spread woo across the web not because it believes in what post modern cargo cult science preaches, but because it doesn't care.
# tech
The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...
# science
Cooking is primarily an art. Nathan Myhrvold wants to make it much more of a science with a creative flair.
# space
Kepler's first survey gives us a list of over 1,200 new potential planets and shows that terrestrial planets may be as common as we hoped.
# tech
No, the internet isn't about to gain sentience and become a globe-spanning hivemind.
