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.
# space
Development wonks want entrepreneurs trying to start a new age of space exploration to abandon their effort and throw good money after bad at the developing world.
# space
Space exploration and long term settlements of alien worlds might actually be a recipe for creating new countries with their own cultures, languages, and armed forces.
# tech
While thinking of our bodies as divine or entirely in utilitarian terms is unhealthy, there is a middle ground to consider.
# politics
We don't know what will happen to North Korea now that Kim Jong Il is dead, but we know it's not going to be good.
# tech
No, computers didn't predict the Arab Spring. Their vague outputs are just being sold as predictions after the fact.
# tech
It's hard to understate just how ambitious a project to visit another star would have to be in order to truly succeed.
# politics
The Tea Party is gladly willing to sabotage science, education, technology, and anything else that reminds them that the world is changing because to them, change is scary.
# politics
Could Earth's population be slowly but surely shrinking over the long term?
# tech
In the future, we might be putting far fewer people in jail and far more under constant surveillance. But will virtual prisons work?
# science
Can we really crunch enough numbers to predict future trends, products, and people's behaviors?