# politics
Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.
# tech
The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
# sex
Blaming porn for societal problems isn't exclusive to religious zealots.
# science
A pair of studies show that T-Rex must have hunted down and killed prey if it didn't want to starve to death.
# science
Two Italians claim they cracked cold fusion and are ready to build a small power plant for paying customers. Their proof, however, points to this being an obvious scam.
# space
Astrologers are demanding their pseudoscience be treated with all due respect. The problem for them is that no respect whatsoever is due to their woo.
# tech
The best way to make robots move may be to just let them figure out how to do it.
# oddities
Dr. Steel is all in for The Singularity in a promo for a new single by the same name.
# tech
Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.
# space
Quests for meaning don't fit into peer-reviewed science. That doesn't stop some from trying anyway.
# tech
Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.
# health
The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
# space
The most likely candidate for alien life outside out solar system, Gliese 581g, might not really exist.
# politics
Biologos just found out what happens when you take a factual stand against religious zealots instead of mewing about vague, aspirational niceties.
# tech
Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.