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
Today’s typical working hours are a result of politics, compromise, and ideology. Now, some experts are finally asking what science says is the perfect work week, and why.
# tech
Current economic models and priorities set almost a century ago are obviously failing us today. Can machines help us get back on the right track?
# tech
Science fiction imagines humans subservient to rows of servers humming in a data centers after losing a world war. In reality, the machines didn’t have to fire a single shot…
# tech
Sometimes, jobs we're told are automated really aren't. They simply hide the humans making your request possible. And that's going to backfire when machines really do take over.
# tech
The experiment to turn laid off coal miners into rockstar programmers has been going on for years now with little to show for it except more right wing rage on social media.
# politics
In today’s Gilded Age with global warming, advocacy for socialism is on the rise, framed as a requirement to save our planet. But the idea that socialism can save us from ourselves has been tried before. It ended badly.
# tech
Trump administration officials tells workers already or currently being replaced by robots it won't happen for another 50 to 100 years.
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A deep dive into the yawning chasm that is the urban/rural divide.
# tech
Om Malik blames the dire state of the West on the people who spent years ringing the alarm bells instead of those who roundly ignored them.
# tech
Widespread automation is about to hit the developing world, hard.