#entertainment
# politics
Of all the ways we objectify each other, adult entertainment and sport fighting are hardly the worst in the grand scheme of things.
# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
# oddities
Weird Things survives two ends of the world, which should be some sort of record for a weird science blog.
# sex
The idea that sexual abuse and careers in porn go hand in hand isn't true according to a survey of adult performers. But the context of the findings and public reactions to them are still quite unsettling.
# tech
It's not just the Home Alone vibe of Skyfall that should irk viewers...
# science
Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
# science
We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
# education
It's one thing when a digital mob goes after you when you do something worthy of criticism. But what happens if it descends on you for succeeding?
# science
If you're going to fake being an expert online, you better learn the tricks of the pseudo-expert trade.
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# 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.
# education
Tim Minchin's skeptical beat poem finally gets the animated treatment it deserves.
# tech
"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"
# oddities
Dr. Steel is all in for The Singularity in a promo for a new single by the same name.
# science
Jokes don't have to be just funny or scientifically accurate. Comedian Brian Malow is on a mission to show they can be both.