# education
Studies about America's supposed shortfalls in STEM education have been taken at face value for years. But a thorough review casts doubt on their methods and conclusions.
# space
Europa is one of the most promising places to find alien life in our solar system, but exploring the moon isn't as easy as just landing on the surface and starting to drill and probe.
# oddities
The Illuminati's next target in their sinister plans to subjugate the world? Your cozy all-American McMansion and white picket fence suburb...
# space
Printing outposts on the Moon is all the rage for mission planners. And if they succeed, we will all feel the benefits here on Earth.
# politics
Of all the ways we objectify each other, adult entertainment and sport fighting are hardly the worst in the grand scheme of things.
# space
A passive, cramped fly-by of Mars just to say we did it is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.
# space
Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
# politics
What used to be known as skeptical blogging has lost the skepticism and gained a lot of tabloid style drama and cultural think pieces.
# space
Early concept drawings from the shuttle program shows us that the end result was full of shortcuts that should not have been taken for the benefit of humanity's space-faring future.
# science
A new experiment unlocks quantum behaviors that can make laser beams more cohesive and negotiate more complicated trajectories.
# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
# space
We just found the Higgs boson, and already a few scientists think it might be responsible for destroying the universe on a random day in the unspecified future.
# tech
Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.
# politics
Pope Ratzinger is giving up his post. This is by far the best and only morally correct thing he did as pope.
# tech
Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.
