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
As we're living our lives online, we have to adjust to the idea that what we do in private might become public and act accordingly.
# tech
Even in the age of on-demand knowledge downloaded to a device in the palm of your hand, common misconceptions and urban legends persist.
# sex
Thanks to the Duggar scandals, we're getting a peek at what Quiverful literature says about premarital sex, and its contents are completely untethered from any semblance of reality.
# 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
Would human-robot relationships really take off when machines are smart enough?
# education
It's one thing when a digital mob goes after you when you do something worthy of criticism. But what happens if it descends on you for succeeding?
# sex
For what it's worth, America is far from the only country where sex and sexual health aren't treated with the cultural and political equivalent of schizophrenia.
# science
The good news is that we have a growing skeptical movement. The bad news is that we actually need one...
# science
A group of anthropologists crossed from being respectful to non-Western cultures and their history to being patronizing and condescending.
# politics
In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.