# oddities
Could the resistance to accepting evolution as a valid science be little more than a case of not talking about it the right way?
# politics
AIDS is a terrible disease afflicting tens of millions of people. So why are some experts upset that fighting its spread is getting so much attention and funding?
# space
The concept of a habitable zone is useful, but too vague to mean much when we're looking for alien life.
# science
You probably don't want that pet T. Rex, even if we could engineer and grow one for you.
# science
Skeptics are going after low-hanging fruit when talking about science. They need to up their game.
# oddities
Christians coping with personal tragedies are lashing out at the secular world to find convenient villains and scapegoats.
# science
You probably don't want Scotty to beam you up. Whatever he assembles on the other end won't be you.
# evolution
Creationists are deliberately confusing evolution with a popular theory it replaced.
# science
Hollywood is trying to make movies a little more scientifically plausible by asking real scientists for advice.
# oddities
Western occultists don't worship demons, aliens, or chaotic entities from beyond the stars. So what do they consider a higher power?
# evolution
Cancer has been with us since the dawn of life and may be the price life pays for multi-cellularity.
# health
How to read a medication's potentially terrifying list of side-effects and keep your sanity.
# tech
Antimatter-powered spacecraft just got a step closer to reality. But of course, there are some big caveats...
# science
Does subliminal advertising really work? The man who claims to have invented it tried to test its efficacy and his results are instructive.
