# oddities
Trying to debunk conspiracy theories alongside search results might just convince conspiracy theorists that the search engines are in on the sinister scheme they're researching.
# tech
We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.
# tech
A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
# politics
The self-proclaimed radical transparency activist who wants to hold the world's right and powerful accountable is getting awfully chummy with Putin & Co...
# science
When creationists try to frame studies of evolutionary mechanisms as proof of a deity, they have their arguments exactly in reverse.
# science
According to a group of Belgian scientists, neutrons switch universes when they decay because they decay when they switch universes.
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# astrobiology
As vast empires on Earth once learned, claiming an immense territory doesn't mean controlling it.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
# science
How do we shake people out of the cozy realities they tend to build for themselves online?
# science
Science doesn't move at the speed of headlines. It moves at whatever speed scientists can discover and confirm something new.
# science
For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.
# politics
"Yeah, sure he's not that good. But he's a man of such deep faith!"
# politics
Should we take Apollo astronauts' advice and send our politicians into space to give them a sense of scale?
# space
We can make our space rovers and probes much smarter than they are today. But we have to get innovative to protect them from alien environments.
