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
It seems that economy is still the top deciding factor for voters, although not in the same way it used to be a decade ago...
# politics
Universal Basic Income seems like a compassionate, forward-looking idea. But in reality, it's little more than a band aid that needs a lot more thought.
# politics
Numerous studies show that humans have a biological aversion to extreme unfairness and inequality, and lash out when we encounter it.
# tech
Why is Theranos so secretive about its technology? It may be because it has no incentive to disclose its methods...
# politics
Extreme inequality caused by runaway capital gains is eating away at the global economy. But high taxes on passive income won't be a panacea.
# tech
Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.
# politics
If the world ever tried to come together as one government the reason wouldn't be pan-species utopianism, but cold, hard cash.
# tech
Command economies haven't worked with people. Now, some groups want to try it with machines.
# tech
Don't worry about most white collar office jobs being replaced by machines. At least not yet...
# tech
Bitcoin is supposed to be a whole new way to manage money. But the humans handling it are still the same and falling into old habits with this new currency.