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.
# health
Pundits who turn every topic into a partisan contest or controversy are now doing it with a pandemic. It's a stupid game and the only prizes are a nasty illness or a painful death.
# science
With the planet still heating up while politicians are either twiddling their thumbs or actively making things worse, prepare for conversations about climate change to have a very different tone.
# tech
The experiment to turn laid off coal miners into rockstar programmers has been going on for years now with little to show for it except more right wing rage on social media.
# science
The right manufactured a free speech crisis on college campuses and President Trump may be giving them a tool to hold the nation’s R&D labs hostage while demanding the spotlight.
# science
Lamar Smith refuses to give up on manufacturing a scandal, demanding publicly available data from NOAA
# science
Too many of the lawmakers who sit on the House Science and Technology Committee are the absolute worst people to be on such a committee.
# politics
Politico sounds the alarm on ignorant voters, the voters who refuse to follow the news and won't even try to learn how their government works.
# science
How do we shake people out of the cozy realities they tend to build for themselves online?
# politics
When you spend your days fear-mongering and creating imaginary existential threats, is it any wonder if violence breaks out as a consequence?
# politics
In American politics, scientists have two choices: a party that actively hates them and a party that merely pays lip service to their work.