Reality Checks: Oddball science, Fission v. Fusion, and the Sixth Extinction

• Funding “oddball science” is worth it. (via Phys.org)
• GLaDOS explains the difference between fission and fusion. (via The Mary Sue)
• What future intelligent life will find when we’re dead and gone. (via NPR)
• What you need to know about the weird polio-like outbreak in California. (via PLoS Blogs)

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