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
Giant bipedal robots look cool in anime and movies. In real life, you probably wouldn't want to use them to fight giant eldritch creatures made of teeth, fangs, and acid.
# astrobiology
The implications of the exploration strategy in Project Kronos may look fascinating, but imply some very scary and disturbing things...
# space
When you remake a fan favorite, you're doomed to get a bad reaction from a lot of die hards, and Star Trek was no exception.
# tech
Sometimes, when all you can get for your writing is exposure, the market is trying to tell you something you'd be foolish to ignore.
# astrobiology
One of the biggest questions no one asks ancient astronaut theorists is if they think our ancestors ever wrote fiction.
# politics
Hollywood cannot let go of its stereotypes, even when it's trying to promote "independent work."
# politics
Of all the ways we objectify each other, adult entertainment and sport fighting are hardly the worst in the grand scheme of things.
# politics
If the world ever tried to come together as one government the reason wouldn't be pan-species utopianism, but cold, hard cash.
# oddities
The sci-fi experiment is now loose on Amazon.com for less than the price of a latte.
# oddities
Weird Things survives two ends of the world, which should be some sort of record for a weird science blog.