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.
# oddities
Proving that we can’t just have nice things in the age of social media, the conspiracy theory industry jumped on the first images from JWST.
# space
Researchers from MIT want to deploy a raft of space bubbles to block sunlight and fight global warming. It probably won’t work.
# health
We’re using so much plastic, it’s literally in our blood right now. For our own sake, we need to find an alternative.
# science
New studies can answer why support for authoritarianism is on the rise and more and people are becoming disillusioned with democracy.
# astrobiology
Did humanity evolve too late to ever meet a galactic federation of intelligent life?
# space
We’re taught that our universe looks and works the same way in every direction. That may not be entirely true.
# space
Science fiction and popular science say that we can change other worlds to be like ours. In reality, that will be a terrible idea.
# tech
A study of American politicians’ tweets shows they’ve become angrier and more crass over the last decade. Why? Because social media algorithms reward them for it.
# 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?