# politics
How do you reach people who don't want to be reached and reason with those who refuse the very idea of reasoning?
# science
Science proves that open offices are the worst environments to work, offsetting their low price with huge hits to employee productivity and health.
# tech
Technology didn't build the post-truth world. We did. And we're the only ones capable of returning to reality.
# sex
For years there's been a debate about whether sexual addiction should be included in the DSM V and we don't seem to be any closer to an answer.
# science
While pervasive, deceptive fake news seems to be a new phenomenon for the public, the science world has been trying to battle their version of it for years.
# oddities
Skeptical blogger Marlon Solomon lays out a persuasive case that we missed a toxic neo-Nazi ideology hiding under Icke's veneer of immortal alien reptilians.
# health
If you didn't want the COO of one the world's top hospitals to sound like Jenny McCarthy on a rampage, unfortunately, you're out of luck.
# astrobiology
The Chilean military has no idea what it tracked after two years of investigations and the footage it shared really is a head-scratcher.
# tech
WikiLeaks decided to use Twitter to settle scores, implying a heavy use of doxxing to silence its critics and detractors.
# space
A proposal for a Martian habitat wants to use the power of water for both structural support and radiation shielding.
# science
Tractor beams aren't just for aliens cruising Earth and looking for people to abduct anymore. In fact, you can build one yourself.
# science
With no faith in politicians to help combat global warming, some scientists are turning to geo-engineering as a possible solution.
# tech
Programmer Maciej Ceglowski refuses to fall for the Gospel of the Nerd Rapture and offers a novel idea for giving people a more realistic idea of what AI really is.
# tech
Next year will focus on reviewing what to do with old project and experimenting with new ones.
# politics
It's been a long, rough year for anyone who wasn't hoping to set the modern world back by half a century.
