# science
DARPA's new moonshot experiment sounds like a recipe for invincible monsters straight out of a B horror movie.
# oddities
Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...
# oddities
Even more than a century after Taxil exposed his revelations about our shadowy Satanic overlords as nothing more than a hoax played on the Catholic Church, conspiracy theorists have been recycling it without a second thought.
# tech
For nearly than half a century, the consensus on what makes a machine intelligent has eluded the computer science field, and it's not getting any easier with more time and new technology.
# politics
NASA's ability to hit ambitious future targets has to rely on private companies willing and eager to get to space, not traditional defense contractors.
# oddities
Mike Adams' next favorite conspiracy is cold fusion and his new favorite villains are the members of the hot fusion lobby, which doesn't exist since fusion for power generation is yet to happen.
# space
Could we use brain-machine interfaces to harden our astronauts against some of the most pressing dangers of space travel?
# oddities
Ufologists seem convinced that NASA is trying to distort an image showing a gigantic alien spaceship shaped like an X floating through the solar system.
# tech
Intel gives us a humorous peek at a surprisingly plausible future of robotics with its "Lunch Room" ad.
# tech
The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.
# evolution
For all the time we've spent admiring, sexualizing, and thinking about breasts, we still haven't figured out how and why they evolved.
# science
After failing to fix science education, Chris Mooney is taking his failed approach to the vaccine manufactroversy.
# science
Thankfully for us, the future Repo Men imagines is very unlikely to happen, which makes it difficult to take its parable seriously.
# health
Alt med practitioners want "natural" to be synonymous with "good for you" and unnecessary to regulate. But natural can also be dangerous and alt med treatments might not be what they appear.
# space
NASA is looking to fix its problems and gear up for sustainable missions. But the actual numbers leave much to be desired.