# science
Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...
# space
We absolutely want private companies to go explore space and take paying customers with them, but we'll also need a fair bit of regulation.
# evolution
The only argument creationists have against speciation is deploying arbitrary taxonomical semantics.
# space
The left seems to believe that private space companies will be fine with sacrificing their customers for profit.
# oddities
The third, and for now, final installment of a sci-fi experiment focused on this blog's favorite themes.
# astrobiology
Scientists are curious about some strange atmospheric signatures on Titan that could signal exotic life. But it's not quite a slam dunk for alien hunters.
# science
Answers In Genesis tries to debate the divine origins of logic as if it was a law of physics with the most illogical drivel they could muster.
# tech
Are computer scientists, ordinarily classified as engineers, in such high demand in traditional scientific fields that we'd want to reclassify them?
# education
A small group of people claim there's a literacy crisis in America so they can lobby to make English spelling more phonetic.
# science
Peer review isn't perfect. But it's still our best hope for quality science and catching errors and frauds with a few small, but meaningful tweaks.
# tech
Another day, another Singularitarian idea for measuring artificial intelligence, this time, through statistical problem solving.
# oddities
A satirical customer complaint about prayer shines a light on the problem with telling people you can speak to a deity able to grant your desires in return for obedience and reverence.
# tech
A new way of creating positrons hints at a potential shortcut towards antimatter engines. But we're still a long way off from such spacecraft...
# astrobiology
As soothing as it may seem, it's very, very, very unlikely there's a union of various alien species that imposes an interstellar order.
# space
While we'd need to generate an immense amount of energy to power a warp drive, there are events in this universe with that kind of energy output...
