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.
# tech
Cryptocurrency advocates are trying to change the world with a paradox of new technology and an idea we've outgrown after thousands of years.
# space
The first moon detected outside of our solar system may be a gas giant orbiting another gas giant and we’re not sure how that happened. Unless it didn’t start its life as a moon...
# health
A California law mandating disclosure of any potentially cancer-causing chemicals is starting to cross the line from useful advice into eye-rolling alarmism.
# tech
The times, they are a changin’, and Weird Things is once again changing with them.
# science
Giving terminally ill patients a chance to try experimental drugs also means protecting them from scammers.
# space
We need big ideas if we're going to successfully transition to a post-industrial society.
# tech
Trolls and bots are taking over social media by the millions. But we're not powerless. We can fight back with just a few easy steps.
# tech
Social media didn't change us for the worse, it merely enabled us to be as bad as we wanted to be and our lack of impulse control would allow.
# sex
Did a real robot brothel quietly open in Barcelona? Well, that depends on your definition of robot...