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.
# podcast
Futurists have long predicted a time when tens of millions of jobs are done by machines, out of sight and out of mind. Now, this moment is here and we’re far from ready...
# politics
The 2018 midterms may be the most important vote today’s generations will cast for science, technology, and the basic social contract in America. The future is at stake, literally.
# science
For millennials, the first step to happiness and a productive life may to forget pretty much everything boomer culture tried to teach them.
# politics
The media and boomers are obsessed with millennial and college phenomena that are barely a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things.
# tech
In most fields, bleeding edge research is conducted in academic labs, not corporate bullpens. In computer science, that's often not the case.
# politics
Yes, you absolutely can go overboard and turn cultural sensitivity into something very, very toxic.
# sex
John Oliver tackled the state of sexual education in America and that state is disturbing to put it mildly...
# politics
Bureaucrats generally don't like creative, fair solutions to complicated problems, so it's no surprise they're making a mess of social activism on campus.
# 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...
# politics
What used to be known as skeptical blogging has lost the skepticism and gained a lot of tabloid style drama and cultural think pieces.