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
Incels may have popularized the idea of being blackpilled, but now existential surrender is the dangerous new hotness in all corners of social media.
# health
We’ve made such a deal of being happy and optimistic, it’s making us more fatalistic, depressed, and in denial. So how do we find real happiness?
# science
Humanity won’t collapse from climate change thanks to the steps we’ve already taken. But we will still be in serious trouble if we don’t do more.
# tech
The stereotype of NFT and crypto enthusiasts is that of young, upper middle class men gambling on get-rich-quick-schemes. We need to update that perception.
# science
A new energy startup wants to use lasers to make geothermal energy more accessible across the world. We should be rooting for their success.
# oddities
Combine malicious propaganda with paranoid people who want to believe they know secrets they don’t, and you get a noxious mess.
# education
Today’s media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.
# tech
With an invasion of Ukraine and thinly veiled threats of nuclear war, we’re living on the edge of World War 3 thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
# science
Researchers trying to give the world a nearly limitless source of clean energy are getting a hand from an AI trained to fight against 100+ million degree plasma.
# politics
A massively profitable global industry got that way by showing people only what they already believe. Now we’re dealing with the fallout.