# astrobiology
Reverse-engineering alien technology is a common sci-fi and conspiracy theory trope. But doing it in real life would be a lot harder than it sounds...
# politics
The world is exploding with protests. Considering its current state, we should be surprised there weren't even more.
# tech
Computer scientist Nick Barnes shows us pretty much everything wrong with colleges' attitudes towards their students and curricula by example...
# politics
Ignore the manufactured acrimony and bloviators preaching how to properly celebrate Christmas. Just enjoy the holiday.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut theorists claim that aliens wanted our planet for gold mining. But why would they need gold, much less in a place where it's hard to extract?
# science
Cranks looking to debate serious scientists and scholars aren't looking to have a discussion. They shouldn't be given a platform and legitimacy by proxy.
# politics
According to the Kremlin, David Icke isn't a wide-eyed conspiracy theorist preaching about immortal alien lizards running the Earth but a serious political scientist.
# politics
We don't know what will happen to North Korea now that Kim Jong Il is dead, but we know it's not going to be good.
# health
How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?
# tech
Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
# space
A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
# politics
R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, 04.13.1949 - 12.15.2011
# science
It would be amazing for the LHC to find the Higgs boson. It would be even more interesting if it doesn't.
# tech
A disagreement between academic and industrial computer science is threatening to leave students in an educational no-man's land.
# space
How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
