# oddities
Does Russia really house a former Soviet doomsday weapon designed to wipe out ever major city in the West should Moscow be obliterated?
# politics
Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.
# science
Evolution can explain why you stand upright and have a large brain. It won't explain why you like to watch movies or read books because it doesn't have to.
# science
Turns out that most people really do get promoted to their level of incompetence thanks to corporate cultures based on bad assumptions.
# space
The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
# politics
A poll of New Jersey residents shows a very disturbing trend in politics: a steep rise in conspiracy theories substituting for news and facts in potential voters' minds.
# tech
A look inside the secret plot to use porn to... help replace human women with sex bots because reasons?
# tech
Brain-machine interfaces are developing at a rapid pace. But don't expect to order implants on demand anytime soon.
# tech
Michael Vassar is back for the third and final installment of the Weird Things Singularity debate.
# oddities
David Icke is warning people to avoid the new swine flu vaccine to foil the sinister agenda of reptilian aliens who secretly rule the world.
# space
We've seen gas giants orbiting so close to their stars, their atmospheres are being stripped off. COROT-7b may show us what happens at the end of that process.
# space
Earth's worst thunderstorms have nothing on the storms that envelop gas giants, especially Saturn...
# health
Quack extraordinaire Mike Adams has crossed a line from typical snake oil salesmanship to predatory fear-mongering.
# tech
MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.
# space
It's actually a good thing there's a debate about whether to classify Pluto as a planet or something else.
