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.
# health
How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?
# tech
Unless you're famous enough to be recognized by the top tier in your industry, you're probably still going to need a resume, no matter what Seth Godin says.
# politics
Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?
# science
Bottled water, now marked up beyond any reason and sold with meaningless quantum technobabble.
# politics
We know what ails us and how to solve it. We just seem unable and unwilling to take the next step and implement those fixes.
# science
Academics and STEM industries are worried that financial firms are making offers the graduates they need can't refuse with serious repercussions for the rest of society.
# tech
Online advertisers are starting to cross into downright stalkerish behavior...
# tech
No matter how tamed the web of the future will be, it will always have its wild, adults-only parts.
# health
The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.
# health
The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.