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
Companies need colleges to educate their next generation of workers. Yet they're refusing to work with them, or even train their employees for that matter.
# space
Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
# tech
No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.
# tech
Study on the failures of telecommuting shows that many employers don't understand telecommuting and hence, neither do their workers.
# tech
A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.
# politics
Betting on tax cuts to boost the economy in the age of automation and outsourcing doesn't make sense. Yet the GOP holds on to voodoo economics with religious zeal.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# space
Space entrepreneurs are excited about the promise of asteroid mining. But there are a lot of big, complicated questions they'll have to answer before we know if they can ever make a profit from it.
# tech
A study making its rounds on the internet says that IT staff are somehow woefully unqualified for their jobs. But this conclusion makes sense when you see who ran this study and how.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.