#business
# space
Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
# tech
No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.
# tech
Study on the failures of telecommuting shows that many employers don't understand telecommuting and hence, neither do their workers.
# tech
A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.
# politics
Betting on tax cuts to boost the economy in the age of automation and outsourcing doesn't make sense. Yet the GOP holds on to voodoo economics with religious zeal.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# space
Space entrepreneurs are excited about the promise of asteroid mining. But there are a lot of big, complicated questions they'll have to answer before we know if they can ever make a profit from it.
# tech
A study making its rounds on the internet says that IT staff are somehow woefully unqualified for their jobs. But this conclusion makes sense when you see who ran this study and how.
# 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.
# 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
Unless you're famous enough to be recognized by the top tier in your industry, you're probably still going to need a resume, no matter what Seth Godin says.
# politics
Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?
# science
Bottled water, now marked up beyond any reason and sold with meaningless quantum technobabble.
# politics
We know what ails us and how to solve it. We just seem unable and unwilling to take the next step and implement those fixes.
# science
Academics and STEM industries are worried that financial firms are making offers the graduates they need can't refuse with serious repercussions for the rest of society.