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
Many of us are living in a dystopian future, but realizing that fact and making changes to fix it are much more difficult than it sounds.
# politics
Organized skepticism was once covered in every major publication around the world. Why did it seemingly vanish overnight? And what damage did its implosion leave behind?
# podcast
Despite the lingering obsession with IQ scores being the arbiter of your fate and intelligence, they’re probably pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.
# podcast
QAnon and social media conspiracy theorists found the cure for literally everything. It’s called a med bed, and it’s straight out of science fiction. Literally.
# podcast
If you’re wondering when artificial intelligence will start destroying the world as we know it, wonder no more. That time is now.
# podcast
With the crypto market having cooled off after a very long series of high-profile busts, crashed, and rug pulls, we take another look at the next big thing that never was: Web3.
# tech
Hollywood writers are once again on strike. Their goal? Nothing less than figuring out how humans and AI can coexist with runaway late-stage capitalism.
# tech
Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.
# space
Scientists figured out an ingenious recipe for extra strong concrete perfect for habitats on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
# science
New research into the psychological roots of greed shows that greed may mean access to more money and luxuries, but at the cost of damaging literally everything else.