# longform
Moral crusaders insist that porn is the mother of all modern social ills, but every scrap of data we have suggests they couldn't be more wrong.
# tech
District Attorneys are going to try mandating encryption backdoors again and refuse to understand why it can't be done without cratering the modern economy.
# oddities
The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
# science
For millennials, the first step to happiness and a productive life may to forget pretty much everything boomer culture tried to teach them.
# science
Climate change denialists have ran out of contrarian theories so they decided to recycle an old one.
# politics
If the incoming backwards-looking Trump administration refuses to work with the future-focused tech industry, it can find another world leader who will.
# oddities
A new experiment shows that ridicule as almost as effective as debunking when it comes to dissuading people from falling for conspiracy theories.
# science
Transgenderism and gender fluidity are complicated topics which may be why the media and political partisans are treating them with the subtlety and nuance of a runaway bulldozer.
# politics
The media and boomers are obsessed with millennial and college phenomena that are barely a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.
# sex
A widely covered study alleges that humans lost the penile bone and a certain measure of endurance in mating. But that finding seems to be at odds with other studies.
# science
We've made it easy and virtually consequence-free to be ignorant of history and science. Now we're paying the price for coddling intellectual sloth.
# tech
Of all the platforms on which to debate and fact check, Twitter is almost purpose-built to be the absolute worst.
# oddities
Welcome to 2016 where the news is made up, reality doesn't matter, and conspiracies suddenly start making sense.
# longform
Doing business in America and enjoying what it has to offer should be an experience for which companies are willing to pay a premium. It's time to market the country accordingly.
# tech
Ignoring reality will always, always return to bite you were it hurts most. The only question is when it will strike.
