# science
Massive volcanic eruptions leave their mark on the climate record we can gleam from tree rings. And some scientists have new ideas for how to best track them...
# space
Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
# tech
If you're a Silicon Valley founder without a new idea, you can always just steal and existing one and paper over it with buzzwords, as David Gelernter demonstrates...
# oddities
Alt med ghoul Mike Adams has a perfect culprit behind school shootings and as per usual, gets every detail absolutely wrong.
# health
Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
# tech
If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...
# tech
Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
# tech
If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.
# sex
Technology may be playing a big role in killing courtship as our parents and grandparents knew it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
# tech
No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.
# politics
Muslim hardliners are zealots are trying to break down the Saudi wall between religion and business. And this is bad news for its economy and Westerners visiting the country.
# space
On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.
# tech
Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.
# politics
Guns don't keep countries free, voters do if there are any, according to a study of virtually every country on Earth.
# science
An individual heat wave may not mean much. But we're not seeing the occasional heat wave, we're seeing a disturbing pattern of them.
