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.
# evolution
For all the time we've spent admiring, sexualizing, and thinking about breasts, we still haven't figured out how and why they evolved.
# tech
Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.
# science
If you ask Raymond Tallis, he will start off some very valid critiques about the use of functional MRI to map the brain, and end up regurgitating creationist talking points.
# science
Since Dembski considered it beneath him to answer my design question, someone else tries to take a shot at them.
# science
Dennis Sewell is back, and this time with an entire book lazily recycling the worst and most thoroughly debunked arguments against evolution and Darwin's work and impact on science.
# evolution
Science writer Nicholas Wade makes the bold claim that belief in the supernatural is genetic but his reasoning and examples fail to live up to the hype.
# science
The best metaphor for creationists might be a misanthropic kids' cartoon from the 1990s rather than a wolf in sheep's clothing.
# tech
Transhumanists preaching the Gospel of the Singularity are right that we don't have to let nature dictate our future. But their absolute faith in utopian technology that hasn't yet been invented is misplaced.
# evolution
Religion reporter Dan Gilgoff decided to host a debate between Ray Comfort and a biologist. Then he tried stacking the deck in Comfort's favor...
# space
Far from destroying organic molecules, the conditions in deep space seems to foster their creation while protecting them from cosmic rays.