# education
Yet more shenanigans from the Texas School Board of Education, this time about the age of the universe and the basics of cosmology.
# politics
GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
# science
BioLogos is determined to bridge the divides between science and religion by... well, avoiding any topic of substance.
# astrobiology
Based on the premise of SETI, if we do start talking to aliens, the ensuing conversation could get awkward very quickly...
# health
Unhinged anti-vaccination activism is starting to amass a body count as children are stating to suffer and die from preventable diseases.
# education
Texas is on a rampage against factual science education. Unfortunately, the state influences the contents of science textbooks across the nation...
# science
Africa is the cradle of humanity, which is why it's the most exciting place to study the early days of modern human evolution.
# evolution
Everyone's favorite creationist punchline Ray Comfort decides to weigh in on swine flu. It went about as well as you'd expect.
# science
Finally, there's an explanation for the Huffington Post's sudden explosion of pseudoscientific screeds.
# science
A new paper shows that far from requiring precise physics to exist, matter as we know it can form within a relatively wide range of tolerances.
# oddities
According to the conspiracy web, a dark cabal which rules the world is trying to cull the human population with swine flu, even though they have far better ways to accomplish that task...
# science
The Daily Fail is still failing, especially when it comes to science.
# science
The famed naturalist and science communicator is back with a new documentary about evolution that avoids similar efforts' typical mistakes.
# science
The fellows at the John Templeton Foundation have a new idea of reconciling science and religion: mealy-mouth, vague apologetics.
