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.
# science
Cooking is primarily an art. Nathan Myhrvold wants to make it much more of a science with a creative flair.
# space
Dougal Dixon has seen the future of the human species and it's not a fun or good one...
# tech
It's often tempting to compare advancements in technology to evolution. But they're two fundamentally different processes.
# oddities
The third, and for now, final installment of a sci-fi experiment focused on this blog's favorite themes.
# evolution
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini wrote a book about evolution riddled with mistakes called out by biologists. Now they're pretending their critics are faceless nobodies with suspect credentials.
# oddities
Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...
# oddities
A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...
# evolution
Dinesh D’Souza's exploration of evidence for the afterlife is a feat of intellectual laziness and incuriosity.
# politics
Ayn Rand claimed to defend capitalism. So why were her heroes such terrible businesspeople with no idea how companies actually work and make money?
# tech
Computers might be able to record your every aspect of your life, but do you really want them to?