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
Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
# oddities
Just because we can track people in real time for whatever reason we want, doesn't mean we should, or let those who overstep sane bounds off the hook.
# politics
Companies are becoming so unreasonably picky that management experts and consultants are alarmed. Potential employees should be too.
# science
Everybody seems to want more STEM majors, scientists and highly trained engineers. But nobody seems to want to pay for them.
# tech
The flip side of technophobia and lamentations about the dehumanizing effect of gadgets? Trying to force everyone to code and insisting it's a vital skill, like literacy.
# evolution
Creationists expect science to tell them soothing tales about their place in the universe. That's just not going to happen.
# science
How much are we actually willing to pay for future innovations in science and technology? And not in a figurative way...
# tech
Exposing kids to coding is a great idea. But it's important not to force them into programming as a career while they're still young.
# tech
We're entering a massive transition period during which certain jobs will disappear forever. We have to start thinking about what will replace them and how.
# tech
Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.