The military is running out of nerds and worries it doesn't have enough to develop and control its future high tech weapons. But the government isn't about to incentivize STEM students with anything other than PR...

Computers and robots are probably not going to be our friends or act like anything other than our helpers and tools in the real world. And that's ok.

What the Catholic Church allowed its priests to do to children without consequence is monstrous and inexcusable. But the priests and their amoral henchmen are trying to find excuses anyway.

According to a Muslim creationist, Allah is less of a deity and more of a programmer with a mad scientist streak.

According to biology pioneer J. Craig Venter, the first step to personalized medicine and new tools to fight cancer are faster computers.

A new computer language wants computers to learn about the world the same way we do: using statistics.

Convergent evolution is a very real phenomenon, but how likely is it to apply across different worlds?

We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.

Chris Steadman and the (Non)Prophet Blog are very upset at my criticism and are ready to diligently dodge every one of my arguments.

Recruiters and employers are now snooping through candidates' social media because they can. That open them to potential liability and have far-reaching affects across social platforms.

The (Non)Prophet blog has a contest for the atheists least likely to offend religious zealots and whose identity is based on how accommodating to their beliefs they are.

John Polkinghorne managed to create a version of God that's both truly omnipresent and omniscient, and almost entirely powerless and irrelevant.

Advocates of the supposedly incoming Technological Singularity have been long on talk but short on detail and seem to see no reason to reverse this trend.

The first nanoweapons in the war on cancer are finally here and they're showing a lot of promise.

Baba Brinkman comes up with a proper diss track for cranks, quacks, and snake oil salesmen.