# oddities
Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
# science
Apparently middle aged planets also gain mass around their equators according to an amateur geologist very passionate about his epiphany.
# science
Crime rates are plummeting and no one seems to be able to explain why.
# oddities
Clean air, clean water, and sustainable, renewable energy are apparently just tools of the New World Order to enslave you and set up a planet-wide communist gulag.
# tech
As aspiring AI designer picks a very passionate fight with a way of thinking about AI that's been dead for three decades.
# tech
If you're going to be a self-described AI psychologist, you have to understand how AI actually works.
# tech
Does an artificial intelligence need a body to truly become what we could consider intelligent?
# education
If you're going to attend a foreign college, make sure you know what you're getting into and pick your host country wisely.
# science
The infamous NASA-backed paper claiming that exotic biochemistry was found on Earth gets eviscerated in the latest round in reviews.
# space
For decades, scientists thought that a habitable world needed a large moon to act like a rudder. That idea might not actually be true.
# science
Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.
# tech
According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.
# politics
People of faith contribute to society in countless ways. Fundamentalists, however, are a millstone around its neck.
# tech
DARPA wants a program that can monitor your actions and predict your every move. Is that even remotely plausible?
# science
A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?
