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.
# 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.
# space
With the successful launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, a lot of researchers and science enthusiasts are wondering if it could actually help us find alien life.
# tech
Even if you’re not a techie, posts about “Web3” and NFTs are probably littering your social media feed. What the hell are they all about, and how will they “save the internet?”
# podcast
Impress your friends and family with some surprising facts about space and the weird stuff floating in it to start 2022.
# health
Joe Rogan and other prominent anti-science mouthpieces are now trying to pull off an old conspiracy theory Jedi mind trick when discussing the pandemic.
# space
A group of scientists want Pluto to be considered a planet again, even if hundreds of other objects earn the same rank.
# space
What happens when your crops fail and you’re 60 trillion miles from Earth? Some experts are raising grim alternatives to tabloids’ delight.