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
We are not running out of jobs humans can do as computers take on more and more responsibilities. We're just choosing not to create new jobs and educate workers.
# tech
Satirical articles about restaurants operated entirely by robots are starting to hit way too close to home...
# politics
If we're going to meet the challenges of the future, we're going to need a plan and that plan starts with education...
# tech
Not only are robots stealing your job, more often than not, you're helping them with nowhere to go after receiving your pink slip...
# 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
The next job in line to get automated seems to be line cooks, raising even more alarms about the future of work and the economy.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# education
We're ignoring the fact that the professors who teach future generations are in deep financial holes and can't seem to get out.
# politics
People of faith contribute to society in countless ways. Fundamentalists, however, are a millstone around its neck.
# politics
Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?