# oddities
What the Georgia Guidestones teach us about the history behind mysterious monuments that stood the test of time.
# tech
Would you pay $6,000 for advice from a doctor who claims he could help you live longer by making it up as he goes along?
# science
Philosopher Michael Ruse would like his discussions about science and religion to have a lot less science and a lot more credulity towards faith...
# sex
Research into teen pregnancy seems to be rife with confusing causation and correlation.
# space
One of the weirdest extrasolar planets we've found so far is a superheated puffball that orbits its star in the wrong direction.
# astrobiology
Ufologists want the EU to create an office of extraterrestrial affairs and diplomacy.
# tech
The Gospel of the Singularity and its promise of digital immortality is now selling engineering and scientific snake oil and hope to believers.
# evolution
Bill Dembski decided to fight evolution using that most scientific of methods: asking his students to troll science bloggers.
# science
Most people in a hole know to stop digging. Mooney and Kirshenbaum are bringing in heavy mining equipment and redoubling their efforts.
# space
We knew planetary collisions should happen relatively often in young solar systems. Now we have hard evidence of one such an event.
# science
Two physicists ask if you could ever expose the mysterious core of a black hole in a new paper.
# science
Ken Ham's temple of ignorance asks a simple-minded, leading question. We should still answer it.
# science
Lack of scientific literacy in America doesn't have a single culprit. It's widespread, systemic, and cultural.
# oddities
Australian anti-vaccine activists are joining forces with a man who thinks that shape-shifting alien reptoids secretly run the world.
# politics
The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving parts. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.