Whenever discussion of the declining space program comes up (example story about the Mars program, and another about our suspended shuttle program), it makes me sad because I feel like it's one more piece of our nation's love for science that we're leaving behind. It's a sentiment I heard echoed at a sci-fi convention by the friendly science-loving ( Read more... )

Clinical Trials and the Cultural Mania for Torture

I am against clinical trials ( Read more... )

Dear people who believe that Big Pharma is keeping marijuana illegal because they are afraid of its panaceic majesty ( Read more... )

This is my obligatory reminder to the internet that I am an angry feminist madwoman who believes that the person who has the final legitimate say on whether a pregnancy continues is the person who is pregnant.

( Why people need to stop telling me that life begins at conception because that's when babby gets soul. )

When did phones become this ridiculously advanced? I must have missed it. In 24 hours I went from, "Will my phone connect to the network, or is it a pocketwatch today?" to "Hey look, I can change the colors on my lightsaber and make it Rickroll people when I ignite it ( Read more... )

Greta Christina's new piece, "Can Atheism be Proven Wrong?"
Yes, atheists pretty much agree that no existing religion has a shred of decent evidence to support it. That's why we're atheists. If we thought any religion had supported itself with decent evidence, we'd accept that religion. That's not the game. The game isn't, "What religion that ( Read more... )

Relax about sex selection

Nature itself manipulates whether a particular couple has a boy or a girl, says Vivienne Parry. So fertility clinics won't be skewing population ratios by offering choice

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Lithaladhwen: For those who backlog chat.... apparently dragons could breathe fire because THEY ATE PLATINUM. Or something. And then there was fire. And hydrogen and stuff. The guy behind Animal Planet's Dragons special said so. That's how it wa ( Read more... )