# astrobiology
For all the excitement about this potentially habitable world, we still don't know much about it and its ability to host life.
# politics
With trolls running people offline and blog feuds reaching a fever pitch, the skeptical blogosphere is spiraling out of control.
# science
For supernovae to have a real impact on our climate, they'd have to be a lot closer and happen a lot more often.
# space
Politicians want splashy headlines and photo ops with flag-planting moments and that's enough for them. This is exactly why they shouldn't set scientific missions.
# politics
Betting on tax cuts to boost the economy in the age of automation and outsourcing doesn't make sense. Yet the GOP holds on to voodoo economics with religious zeal.
# science
It's not a revelation that people like creationist "just-so" stories. Pundits need to stop insisting that scientists make up some of their own.
# science
Too many of the lawmakers who sit on the House Science and Technology Committee are the absolute worst people to be on such a committee.
# oddities
Hyperventilating conspiracy theories used to be fringe phenomena on the internet look on as curiosities. Now, they're being incorporated into the GOP platform.
# tech
A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
# science
Celebrity skeptics collapse in on themselves in a multi-blog feud that has absolutely nothing to do with science and education.
# tech
We've reached a phase in computer development when everything old is new again. And this approach can work. Up to a point.
# tech
We evolved to be social animals that live in close-knit communities. But sharing minds via brain implants with our fellow humans may be far too much for us right now.
# politics
Celebrity-driven organized skepticism is becoming a loud, partisan, and political disaster.
# space
The idea that halting science and exploration until we fix all the world's ills is extremely popular. It's also extremely ignorant and self-sabotaging.
