# science
NYT's Virginia Heffernan seems shocked and appalled that popular science blogs aren't dry, purely academic exercises in summarizing scientific papers.
# science
Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.
# tech
It's one thing to criticize junk science or lack of detail when it comes to transhumanism. It's something else to dismiss the entire concept based on glorified statism and fatalism.
# tech
Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
# space
Another day, another example of comic numerology making big claims and falling on its face.
# space
The Daily Galaxy promotes a paper with demonstratively erroneous conclusions about the age of the universe, and very sketchy origins.
# space
Astronomers find a star that's larger, brighter, and heavier than what we thought could still exist.
# science
Here's to hoping that the Discovery Channel does right by Phil Plait's show...
# politics
WikiLeaks' stunt is unlikely to end well for informants helping to fight the Taliban and seems designed only to boost Assange's profile.
# tech
Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?
# science
Quantum time travel experiments hint that physics creates closed time loops, meaning you can't change history.
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# science
The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
# health
National healthcare systems are getting sick and tired of paying for expensive placebos.
# education
As more Americans are rethinking the value of a college education, some humanities scholars are advocating not just more college, but the least employable majors possible.
