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
A filmmaker trying to kick-start a controversy to market a biographical movie about Charles Darwin is finding it hard to get attention. But why?
# tech
With every new generation of consoles and graphics, we get another dire warning about video game violence.
# oddities
How to turn your weekend knitting project into a luxury product for the less than discerning customer with a little anti-scientific woo.
# astrobiology
Unfortunately, District 9 seems like a realistic look at how we'd treat an alien species that can't really defend itself from us.
# science
ABC's Tandem follows the age old tradition of cramming enough technobabble into the plot of a space themed disaster show and hope the audience doesn't ask questions.
# science
A quick and dirty Q&A session about how this blog works behind the scenes based on readers' most common questions.
# science
Chris Mooney and GQ Magazine want readers to ask "Hey, who's that nerd posing with my favorite rock star?"
# science
Sometimes the legal system won't teach you a lesson. Physics might step in long before they do.
# science
From P(iled) H(igher and) D(eeper) Comics comes an instructive comic that's sad but true...
# health
Woo and junk science are big business. And why wouldn't they be? They're free from the limits of what's real.