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.
# education
A study of over 2,000 students found some very disturbing facts about the American college system.
# politics
We know what ails us and how to solve it. We just seem unable and unwilling to take the next step and implement those fixes.
# tech
Being replaced by machines at work is no longer a utopian prediction. It's a grim reality for which our leaders haven't even tried to prepare.
# politics
Economic theory and reality keep colliding as the Great Recession unfolds, and Wall Street keeps pretending that the theory is winning.
# tech
If we want to guide out future and find our places in it, we need to take risks and dream big. Otherwise, we're doomed to decades of mediocrity.
# education
College was supposed to open doors to a bright future. Instead, it became a debt-generating Catch-22 for many.
# space
Exploring space creates new jobs and helps the economy. Simply going to space for the sake of going, doesn't.
# science
Politicians love to pretend the public's money is being wasted on pointless scientific experiments. In reality, all that research creates millions of jobs.
# politics
Sometimes the comments are more telling than the reporting on an important issue in science education.
# space
Cash in space is a safety concern. A foreign exchange company wants to fix that with a new, space-based currency.