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
Newspapers are still on the warpath against bloggers and it's not working out for them.
# oddities
Sometimes looking through the spam trap leads you down a path of abject insanity...
# tech
Another year, another peek under the hood of Weird Things.
# tech
Gizmodo is taking a very hard line with trolls and the trolls demand their right to hurl abuse. Is this is the start of showdowns to come?
# oddities
Stephen Fry has a message for pedants who crawl through many a blog's comment threads.
# tech
Weird Things is now officially a toddler in human years and probably middle aged in blog ones...
# space
GJ 436b has some interesting chemistry, but it's not rewriting astronomy and chemistry books, nor is it a huge surprise to scientists.
# tech
That's right, Weird Things passed a million views. Next, world conquest. Right?
# science
Things are not looking good for ScienceBlogs as the aftermath of the Sodageddon propels more of its writers to escape velocity...