# politics
Frank Swain's criticism of skeptical bloggers has some good notes, but largely misses the broader point of what skeptical blogging is all about.
# oddities
A closer, more scientific-ish look at the dreaded primordial graboid...
# space
Here's a little something for fans of large, complex space art...
# education
Not making future doctors take enough science classes or pass stringent exams to appeal to humanities majors is a recipe for disaster.
# education
College education seems due for an overhaul and the first step may be admitting that not everyone needs it.
# science
NYT's Virginia Heffernan seems shocked and appalled that popular science blogs aren't dry, purely academic exercises in summarizing scientific papers.
# science
Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.
# tech
It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.
# tech
Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
# space
Another day, another example of comic numerology making big claims and falling on its face.
# space
The Daily Galaxy promotes a paper with demonstratively erroneous conclusions about the age of the universe, and very sketchy origins.
# space
Astronomers find a star that's larger, brighter, and heavier than what we thought could still exist.
# science
Here's to hoping that the Discovery Channel does right by Phil Plait's show...
# politics
WikiLeaks' stunt is unlikely to end well for informants helping to fight the Taliban and seems designed only to boost Assange's profile.
# tech
Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?
