# health
Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.
# science
We have a new design for a fusion reactor that's showing great promise. We owe it to ourselves to give it a fair shot at making fusion work.
# oddities
We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...
# tech
The House Science and Technology Committee continues to plunge deeper and deeper into denialism and inanity.
# tech
We're trapped in one of the fastest transitional moments in history and we're feeling the pain as tens of millions are failing to adapt.
# tech
Om Malik blames the dire state of the West on the people who spent years ringing the alarm bells instead of those who roundly ignored them.
# science
Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.
# politics
When living through dark times, the best thing you can do is give yourself a day off. Your sanity will thank you.
# oddities
Right wing conspiracists weaponized partisan politics and concern about children into a toxic theory that's spilling out into the real world.
# astrobiology
If there was a thriving alien civilization on one of the best candidates for life in our stellar neighborhood, we missed them by well over a billion years...
# politics
The far left has mastered the art of creating a circular firing squad and alienating its willing and ready allies.
# tech
Facebook can't fix its fake news problem because the damage is already done and mitigating it means jeopardizing its primary draw for users.
# longform
It seems that economy is still the top deciding factor for voters, although not in the same way it used to be a decade ago...
# tech
Widespread automation is about to hit the developing world, hard.
# science
On further review, the study claiming that the universe is expanding at a steady rate ended up independently proving accelerating expansion.
