# politics
Hollywood cannot let go of its stereotypes, even when it's trying to promote "independent work."
# tech
In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.
# tech
Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.
# science
Despite the bad rap technocrats get, they're absolutely needed to keep dogma and blind faith from hijacking the day to day working of governments.
# space
Planck has given us more precise measurements of how the universe works, but mostly confirms what we know.
# tech
How a joke in poor taste exploded into an ever-escalating firestorm of recriminations and tit-for-tats.
# oddities
You can try to convince fervent conspiracy theorists that they're wrong, or you could do something more productive, like talking to a brick wall.
# tech
Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.
# sex
The Family Research Council, without a hint of sarcasm or whiff of hyperbole to make some point, wants the government to outlaw the sale of birth control to unmarried couples.
# tech
What do radical Mexican environmental activists call a nuclear war followed by a totalitarian dictatorship? A good start.
# politics
Living under constant surveillance does have some benefits like deterring crime and catching frauds and cheats, argues Charles Kenny.
# tech
The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.
# tech
A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.
# tech
Newspapers are attacking online services with which they could partner out of sheer desperation.
# education
Companies need colleges to educate their next generation of workers. Yet they're refusing to work with them, or even train their employees for that matter.
