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
If you're exercising in searing heat and soaking humidity, that weird feeling isn't toxins leaving your body, it's the beginning of a heat stroke.
# oddities
Alt med ghoul Mike Adams has a perfect culprit behind school shootings and as per usual, gets every detail absolutely wrong.
# science
A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
# tech
A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
# tech
Advanced prosthetics are making an appearance at the Olympics and showing how inhuman form can restore human function.
# politics
A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.
# tech
One of the best things you might ever do for your health is let your doctor track it with every possible device.
# tech
The artificial hearts of tomorrow might replace the familiar beat of the heart with a steady hum. And millions might live longer thanks to that innovation.
# oddities
Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
# tech
A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.