# tech
The best way to make robots move may be to just let them figure out how to do it.
# oddities
Dr. Steel is all in for The Singularity in a promo for a new single by the same name.
# tech
Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.
# space
Quests for meaning don't fit into peer-reviewed science. That doesn't stop some from trying anyway.
# tech
Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.
# health
The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
# space
The most likely candidate for alien life outside out solar system, Gliese 581g, might not really exist.
# politics
Biologos just found out what happens when you take a factual stand against religious zealots instead of mewing about vague, aspirational niceties.
# tech
Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
# science
Evolutionary psychology sounds like a fruitful pursuit, but it's probably barking up the wrong tree as a discipline.
# politics
When you don't understand how the world is changing, you can either learn more about it, or you can weave a conspiracy theory to explain it. Why do so many choose the latter?
# politics
Comparing what America and the USSR did to their own citizens during the Cold War is a fool's errand. The USSR was objectively worse to its people.
# science
Biologos openly declares that the only science they will accept is science tinged by a heavy religious bias.
# science
Embryos outside of Earth's gravity seem to have a hard time developing, meaning that reproduction in space requires a far more fine tuned environment.
# science
Believe it or not, there's a growing group of people trying to cherry-pick a medical case that obesity isn't bad for you.
