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
For the first time we saw multicellular life evolve in a lab under conditions predicted by biologists.
# politics
Intelligent Design was a compromise no one wanted and the wrong answer to a question no one even asked.
# astrobiology
It makes sense for an alien species not to care about wiping out a civilization on another planet. Question is whether it would be worth the hassle.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut proponents can't seem to distinguish between the terms plausible and likely.
# evolution
Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.
# health
Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.
# science
Michio Kaku is an expert in theoretical physics. This is why it's not surprising that he's reciting for sci-fi cliches about evolution instead of the actual science.
# politics
Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.
# space
Quests for meaning don't fit into peer-reviewed science. That doesn't stop some from trying anyway.
# science
Evolutionary psychology sounds like a fruitful pursuit, but it's probably barking up the wrong tree as a discipline.