# politics
Partisan tribalism is so toxic, it can indirectly influence people to vote against their best interests just to make a statement.
# oddities
What do 9/11 Truther rants have to do with selling supplements? Actually, a lot more than you might think...
# tech
In order to make their cinematic universe work, the creators of The Matrix had to make their robots invulnerable. In reality, they wouldn't have won the war against humans.
# science
Not only can we continue scientific research and space exploration before we solve all the world's problems, we can't afford not to...
# space
If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
# space
Titan is a target for alien hunters looking for exotic life in our own solar system. But kind of organisms could even survive its bizarre environment?
# space
A new eye-catching proposal suggests that the Moon was spun off from Earth instead of being formed in the aftermath of a collision.
# health
Over the last 16 years, DSHEA has been a massive giveaway to alt med and snake oil peddlers, doing far more harm than good.
# science
Sometimes we need to let entertainment stay entertainment instead of bending over backwards trying to turn it into an educational tool.
# sex
Helicopter parents seem to believe that if kids can't learn about sex, they won't experiment with it. Statistically, they're risking their kids' long term health for their own peace of mind.
# health
Mike Adams borrows the King of Woo's strategy of stringing a Gish Gallop of junk science to better sell his supplements and pamphlets.
# politics
This blog's creationist readers appear to need a reminder the criticizing their statements is not the same thing as disagreeing with a deity.
# science
Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
# oddities
A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...
# science
Pundits and commentators are still perplexed by Ken Ham and his temple of ignorance, and keep setting out on a snipe hunt for a deep, complicated reason why he created it.
