# science
Can we recreate life on Earth after a mass extinction? And if we could, do we really want to?
# politics
Turns out that one of the stories Chris Mooney used to build his case against angry atheists ruining science education for everyone was created out of thin air by a fabulist.
# science
Pepsi's venture into ScienceBlogs has been a rare slow-motion train wreck, from the internecine blog wars to waves of bloggers heading for the exits.
# science
Hyperventilating right wing conspiracy theories about climate science have inspired their less stable listeners to send a constant barrage of death threats and hate mail to climatologists.
# science
A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
# evolution
Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.
# astrobiology
Another entry in the quickly growing HuffPo library of woo shows that all creationism is basically the same in the end.
# politics
In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.
# oddities
For some inexplicable reason, Nature decided to publish a paranoid parable about tyrannical New Atheists lobotomizing Christians into depression and loneliness.
# tech
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
# science
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# science
Chris Mooney is back with another rendition of the Unscientific America debacle to cement his status as the human version of a broken record.
# tech
If you froze yourself in a cryogenic chamber, would anyone actually want to unfreeze you in the future?
# science
The media's mea culpa for their rampant journalistic malpractice during Climategate comes way too late, is far too little, and has long ago accomplished denialists' goals.
# tech
Despite the popular rumor, you can't hack a speed camera XKCD-style with some code on your license plate.
