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.
# sex
The idea that sexual abuse and careers in porn go hand in hand isn't true according to a survey of adult performers. But the context of the findings and public reactions to them are still quite unsettling.
# tech
It's not just the Home Alone vibe of Skyfall that should irk viewers...
# science
Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.
# science
We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
# education
It's one thing when a digital mob goes after you when you do something worthy of criticism. But what happens if it descends on you for succeeding?
# science
If you're going to fake being an expert online, you better learn the tricks of the pseudo-expert trade.
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
# education
Tim Minchin's skeptical beat poem finally gets the animated treatment it deserves.
# tech
"Listen, sometimes I just get the urge to kill all humans. You know?"