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.
# podcast
Critics of space exploration say we need to fix Earth before aiming for the stars, but science shows that space travel makes you care much more about the planet’s future.
# space
Astronauts get a very rare and unique perspective on our planet, one in which our world isn’t just a steppingstone to the stars, but a fragile home to be protected.
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You might think that a cleaner world with renewable energy and smart urban planning would make our lives better. But that’s exactly what those evil Illuminati want you to think...
# politics
A plan to save the planet by letting half of it revert to a wilderness may not be as unrealistic as it seems at first blush.
# tech
What do radical Mexican environmental activists call a nuclear war followed by a totalitarian dictatorship? A good start.
# science
Anti-GMO activists are defending an extremely flawed study with all their bad faith rhetorical guns blazing.
# politics
Carbon taxes may prompt companies and people to switch to cleaner. But incentives, rather than punishments, may be a better approach.
# oddities
Clean air, clean water, and sustainable, renewable energy are apparently just tools of the New World Order to enslave you and set up a planet-wide communist gulag.
# politics
Anti-nuclear NIMBYism has not gotten better over the years. In fact, it's getting worse.
# science
Another year, another mandatory post about how global warming actually works and why a warm planet can still have snow and ice.