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.
# science
Thankfully for us, the future Repo Men imagines is very unlikely to happen, which makes it difficult to take its parable seriously.
# science
Sometimes we need to let entertainment stay entertainment instead of bending over backwards trying to turn it into an educational tool.
# science
Avatar is an accidental tale of Singularitarian transhumanism with an environmentalist twist.
# oddities
A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...
# tech
Far be it from me to offer design advice to giant killer robot builders, but that's exactly what I'm going to do.
# oddities
Today is the day to celebrate your favorite cosmic horror, which lays dead-dreaming on the bottom of the ocean.
# oddities
Have you ever wondered what your favorite cartoon characters look like without skin or organs? Well, here's your chance to find out...
# science
Laplace was worried this sort of thing might happen and drive mere mortals insane...
# evolution
Guinness embraces a fun riff on evolution in its latest ad and the results are very entertaining.
# oddities
If sci-fi says more about our hopes and fears than about the future, what sort of sci-fi would our prehistoric ancestors produce?