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
Dr. Steel is all in for The Singularity in a promo for a new single by the same name.
# science
Jokes don't have to be just funny or scientifically accurate. Comedian Brian Malow is on a mission to show they can be both.
# science
If you publish enough complex, highly speculative papers with untestable predictions, eventually, you're going to get trolled.
# science
Humor can be the beast way to show the shortfalls of a pseudoscientific idea as shown by XKCD and Scenes From A Multiverse.
# oddities
Just because you've been condemned to hell doesn't mean it has to be torture. All you need to do is know how to prepare for your particular damnation.
# oddities
Here's a brief animated summary of the Cthulhu Mythos for those of you who from some bizarre reason haven't read it yet.
# science
Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...
# science
A thought experiment on what might happen if you try to teleport your way through traffic in front of a police car.
# tech
We interrupt our normal update to bring you a message from the post-Singularity future.
# oddities
It's rare you get to talk to a mastermind with plans to rule the world so it's hard not to jump at the chance to interview one.