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
If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.
# politics
A poll of New Jersey residents shows a very disturbing trend in politics: a steep rise in conspiracy theories substituting for news and facts in potential voters' minds.
# science
Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.
# science
The Texan Institute For Creation Research is still dead set on issuing an M.S. in creationism, and they have 80 pages of (nonsensical) reasons why.
# science
How do we know what happened billions of years ago in distant galaxies? Because physics only lets us see the past.
# science
Why is reconciling science and religion so difficult? Because at their core, they're about two completely different, and opposite, things.
# oddities
Making a persuasive conspiracy theory is a skill. Here's how to learn it.