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
If we accept that internet connectivity in the 21st century is a part of vital infrastructure, the next question is what is the minimum speed we can call acceptable.
# politics
Pundits are waking up to the fact that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the youth of today is being set up for failure.
# science
Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.
# politics
Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?
# politics
Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.
# 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.
# space
Asteroid mining is touted as the industry of the future. But how ready are we to harvest raw materials from the asteroid belt at a profit?
# politics
Peak Oil is a popular idea, but we're nowhere close to reaching it.