# health
Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
# space
One of the most destructive and hardest to defend against weapons we could build would be an inert slug of exotic alloys that does its damage using nothing but speed. A lot of speed.
# science
Sometimes it's hot for a couple of weeks. But sometimes, that heat wave is part of a pattern that hints at bad things to come...
# science
The existence of the Higgs boson has been confirmed and the Standard Model is upheld yet again. Now what?
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# space
All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# space
Are we looking at a repeat of the Space Race, this time against China?
# politics
Religious fundamentalists are deeply offended that people no longer fear them and feel free to criticize their worst habits.
# politics
A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.
# tech
There's a cottage industry of techno-utopians out to convince us that their wildest computer-based dreams are right around the corner.
# science
Mark Regnerus' study of homosexual parenting is rife with cherry-picking, misrepresentation, and baseless assertions. This is why he's being so harshly criticized.
# science
Everybody seems to want more STEM majors, scientists and highly trained engineers. But nobody seems to want to pay for them.
# evolution
Why do creationists insist on demanding evidence that's been produced so many times over?
# evolution
South Korea inexplicably allows its creationists to censor passages about evolution in science textbooks.