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.
# oddities
Scientology is a dangerous cult ran by abusive people. But UFO religions in general might be the future of organized faith on Earth.
# oddities
A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.
# politics
Of all the sins that worry the religious right, lust, in the form of pornography, seems to dominate their every other waking thought.
# politics
After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
# space
Every year, Russia celebrates the first human flight into space, but not how, or why, you might think...
# politics
How to view history through the prism of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
# oddities
Ancient alien claims often rely on a single flawed assumption: that our ancestors couldn't be engineers and scientist in their own right.
# oddities
How passionate letters become books, and books become sacred texts.
# oddities
Forth Reich conspiracies are alive and well in a potboiler coming soon to a conspiracy-laden bookshelf near you.