Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# politics
PROTECT IP and SOPA aren't just threatening to gut the internet under the guise of fighting piracy, they're giving cranks and quacks a powerful new weapon ripe for abuse against their critics.
# tech
Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.
# space
Kepler-22b is now of the our best candidates for extraterrestrial life. But there are a lot of questions left to answer about this planet.
# oddities
Even a cursory glance at post-modernism shows that it's basically just trendy nonsense. Emphasis on nonsense.
# politics
Intelligent Design was a compromise no one wanted and the wrong answer to a question no one even asked.
# education
In computer science, a PhD offers fewer jobs for slightly more money and fewer opportunities for growth.
# tech
The problem with John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is that its premise is woefully outdated in computer science terms.
# tech
No, computers didn't predict the Arab Spring. Their vague outputs are just being sold as predictions after the fact.
# oddities
Muslim fundamentalists want all those harlots to cover up their sexy, sexy eyes, lest they're tempted to sin at the sight of an exposed iris.
# science
Zero point energy is a favorite term for sci-fi writers and physics cranks. But while they think it means free energy from nothing, it's actually just a quantum state.