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.
# science
It looks like our future is fewer humans, not more. And while that may be good for our long-term survival, it means rethinking our economic and political systems.
# oddities
Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
# politics
Pundits are waking up to the fact that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the youth of today is being set up for failure.
# politics
Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?
# politics
Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.
# science
There is a hard limit to how many people this planet can support, but we may never actually reach it. If we do, we could be quickly cut down to size.
# tech
A popular criticism of radical life extension is that society and life cycles would break down. But that's not what happens in organisms whose lives we dramatically increased in the lab.
# politics
Humanity is growing in number and we're starting to strain the planet and ourselves.