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.
# politics
The Rhodes Trust is concerned that the financial industry is effectively bribing top notch talent away from politics, science, and technology, and parasitizing our future in the process.
# 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?
# politics
Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.
# science
Turns out that most people really do get promoted to their level of incompetence thanks to corporate cultures based on bad assumptions.
# oddities
How to turn your weekend knitting project into a luxury product for the less than discerning customer with a little anti-scientific woo.
# health
Woo and junk science are big business. And why wouldn't they be? They're free from the limits of what's real.
# science
Paradoxically, huge bonuses at relatively long intervals set us up for failure.
# politics
Capitalism is a tool, not a deity to be worshipped, much less with the inherent arrogance of Objectivism.
# space
Space tourism isn't just a distant dream. Some people actually managed to visit space just to see what it's like.
# sex
Sex sells, and so does moral outrage about sexy things being lucrative.