# science    

who will save us from the gmo monster?

Anti-GMO activism is the left's version of global warming denialism and it's just as vicious and fact-free.
who will save us from the gmo monster?

# tech    

does cyberwar's digital bell toll for thee?

Yes, cyber warfare is real. No, the next attack won't plunge us back into the Stone Age.
does cyberwar's digital bell toll for thee?

# tech    

why your antivirus app can't always save you

Just because you have antivirus doesn't mean your computer is now invulnerable. Far from it in fact.
why your antivirus app can't always save you

# tech    

to code or not to code? that is the question…

The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
to code or not to code? that is the question…

# tech    

why cyberwarfare won't become violent…

Cyber espionage is a lot more effective than an all out attack. So why are we being told to brace for the latter rather than deal with the former?
why cyberwarfare won't become violent…

# space    

and yet they still just don't get it…

Development wonks want entrepreneurs trying to start a new age of space exploration to abandon their effort and throw good money after bad at the developing world.
and yet they still just don't get it…

# tech    

why you just can't black box an a.i.

AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
why you just can't black box an a.i.

# tech    

technophobia is alive, well, and still wrong

Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.
technophobia is alive, well, and still wrong

# tech    

censoring the web one keyword at a time

Governments censoring, filtering, and manipulating the internet, so hot right now.
censoring the web one keyword at a time

# science    

the challenge of popular science writing

No good deed goes unpunished, including writing a science book that will get critiqued by scientists who aren't shy about getting pedantic.
the challenge of popular science writing

# space    

why we'd want to make some more antimatter

Antimatter will need to be the fuel of the future if we want technology like relativistic spaceships and black hole reactors.
why we'd want to make some more antimatter

# science    

how we shouldn't fix research grant problems

Having the public vote on what science gets funded and why to fix the issues with how grants are given out is an idea only a politician could love and would be disastrous in practice.
how we shouldn't fix research grant problems

# tech    

and now, here's electrogonorrhea, the noisy killer

Would human-robot relationships really take off when machines are smart enough?
and now, here's electrogonorrhea, the noisy killer

# education    

why there are phds in the unemployment line…

We're ignoring the fact that the professors who teach future generations are in deep financial holes and can't seem to get out.
why there are phds in the unemployment line…

# science    

how new agers escape the human condition

There's nothing quite like creationism mixed with a heavy dose of woo in which anything you dream of can come true because quantum.
how new agers escape the human condition

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