# science
According to Mike Adams, homeopathy is superior to actual medicine because it actually doesn't seem to do anything.
# tech
There's a good case for trying to bring the developing world online, but it's going to be hard to get today's financial gatekeepers to sign on to such a project.
# astrobiology
Communication is difficult. Especially with alien beings that evolved tens of light years away and may have no idea we're even trying to communicate.
# tech
It's hard to understate just how ambitious a project to visit another star would have to be in order to truly succeed.
# science
AOL is helping to spread woo across the web not because it believes in what post modern cargo cult science preaches, but because it doesn't care.
# tech
The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...
# science
Cooking is primarily an art. Nathan Myhrvold wants to make it much more of a science with a creative flair.
# space
Kepler's first survey gives us a list of over 1,200 new potential planets and shows that terrestrial planets may be as common as we hoped.
# tech
No, the internet isn't about to gain sentience and become a globe-spanning hivemind.
# politics
Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.
# tech
The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
# sex
Blaming porn for societal problems isn't exclusive to religious zealots.
# science
A pair of studies show that T-Rex must have hunted down and killed prey if it didn't want to starve to death.
# science
Two Italians claim they cracked cold fusion and are ready to build a small power plant for paying customers. Their proof, however, points to this being an obvious scam.
# space
Astrologers are demanding their pseudoscience be treated with all due respect. The problem for them is that no respect whatsoever is due to their woo.
