# tech
In most fields, bleeding edge research is conducted in academic labs, not corporate bullpens. In computer science, that's often not the case.
# politics
An analysis of partisan echo chambers on social media shows that the far left and the far right have unique approaches to propaganda.
# science
A new paper claims that the universe's expansion isn't accelerating. If that's true, we have to start rewriting cosmology as we know it.
# astrobiology
If you can trust anyone to point out a genuine UFO, it's an astronaut. Sadly, they might be just as misinformed or probe to personal biases as the rest of us.
# astrobiology
Oddly, this is a case when a few signals would make a better case for alien contact than hundreds.
# longform
Forget red states vs. blue states. The electoral showdown in 2016 is between where we've been and where we need to go.
# longform
Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have any surviving cultures in the first place.
# tech
Self-driving cars won't solve congestion in major cities. They will be the congestion in major cities.
# tech
Marissa Meyer appears to have learned nothing from her tenure at Yahoo and it clearly shows in her latest interview.
# tech
A little coding fun with hash maps and delegates for trivial parallelization...
# oddities
Remember the Satanic Panic of the 1990s and the various cranks promoting it? It turns out they never quite moved on to something else...
# sex
The writer of the most popular and influential pro-abstinence literature is now regretting his work.
# politics
In American history, conspiracy theorists taking out their frustrations at the ballot box are far from an anomaly.
# space
We typically think of Earth as an ideal world for habitability, but what we've discovered so far hints at us being an oddball.
# space
Meet the first independent human nation in space. Without an actual presence in space and an iffy plan for how to get there...
