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.
# space
Today, nothing can replace terrestrial mining. But if make the necessary long-term investments, our reward will be nearly infinite cheap resources, and a cleaner, healthier Earth.
# politics
When we want to see if economy is growing or to measure its relative size to others, we use the gross domestic product, or GDP. But what if this number is horribly misleading?
# tech
Teaching miners to code in hope of giving them a chance to join the tech boom isn't the worst idea. But there's more to a successful tech career than taking a coding class.
# politics
Rather than living large in the cities where they've come to rule, tech workers are finding themselves just as priced out as those who blame them for soaring costs of living…
# tech
Another month, another case to remind us that investing in the economic Wild West has real consequences for thousands of people.
# tech
To address income inequality, economists and philosophers keep coming up with the same ideas, most of which involve resurrecting heavy-handed control economies and adding computers.
# tech
We should take the gig economy’s rapid growth and global impact as a warning that we need to make some major changes, and we need to make them very quickly.
# tech
Cryptocurrency advocates are trying to change the world with a paradox of new technology and an idea we've outgrown after thousands of years.
# politics
It's been a long, rough year for anyone who wasn't hoping to set the modern world back by half a century.
# politics
Doing business in America and enjoying what it has to offer should be an experience for which companies are willing to pay a premium. It's time to market the country accordingly.