# science
Like a dog trying to mark every tree, the Templeton Foundation is trying to mark every scientific breakthrough as being motivated entirely by religion.
# oddities
Today, if you want to get famous and turn being you into a career you join a reality TV show. But back in the day, you had to pretend to be a blood-drinking, virgin-sacrificing Satanist...
# science
A number of researchers and utopian pundits are promising radical life extension, if not unlimited lifespans. But the science behind their claims is shaky to non-existent.
# science
Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.
# tech
Michael Vassar is back for the second round of our debate about Ray Kurzweil and The Technological Singularity.
# politics
Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.
# science
When reporters already know what story they're going to write, your research becomes nothing more than bastardized fodder.
# politics
According to some environmentalists, the worst part of war is the carbon footprint.
# science
If time travel is possible, what direction would be the easiest to visit and have the fewest limitations?
# space
If we're expecting tourists to visit the Moon, should we figure out how to protect Apollo landing sites from souvenir hunters and historical artifact collectors?
# science
Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.
# tech
Michael Vassar of the Singularity Institute offers a rebuttal to Weird Things' coverage of the Singularity and its advocates.
# science
Respectful debates help us learn and improve the public discourse. But there's a catch. Those debates can't be so respectful that they refuse to call out abject nonsense.
# space
We can't see a black hole directly, even a supermassive one. But we can see where they are by tracking the orbits of the objects around them...
