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
On the surface, a basic AI handily beat humans in a classification task. But if you look at the details, its victory wasn't exactly a clean one.
# science
Can we really crunch enough numbers to predict future trends, products, and people's behaviors?
# science
Pepsi's presence on ScienceBlogs caused an extreme overreaction and revealed a major lack of foresight, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea in the first place.
# science
Pepsi's venture into ScienceBlogs has been a rare slow-motion train wreck, from the internecine blog wars to waves of bloggers heading for the exits.
# politics
Somehow, instead of becoming a de facto standard, environmentally-friendly products have become an expensive, must-have accessory.
# tech
Recruiters and employers are now snooping through candidates' social media because they can. That open them to potential liability and have far-reaching affects across social platforms.
# politics
Economic theory and reality keep colliding as the Great Recession unfolds, and Wall Street keeps pretending that the theory is winning.
# health
Homeopaths appear to be very good at fear-mongering and repeating soothing buzzwords, and very bad at science and creating conspiracies about big business.
# tech
If we want to guide out future and find our places in it, we need to take risks and dream big. Otherwise, we're doomed to decades of mediocrity.
# space
Virgin Galactic has unveiled the first prototype of SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle that will take tourists to the edge of space.