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.
# tech
Some activists want to see virtual crime punished by real world consequences. They do not want to go down that road and what it would entail.
# politics
Religious protections and exemptions have gone so far that in certain cases, neglecting and abusing children is legal as long as you claim there's a religious reason for it.
# tech
Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.
# sex
The Family Research Council, without a hint of sarcasm or whiff of hyperbole to make some point, wants the government to outlaw the sale of birth control to unmarried couples.
# tech
A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.
# politics
Christian zealots in Missouri vote to create a right they've always had just to sneak in a way to stop teaching their kids about evolution, sex, and cosmology.
# tech
We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
# health
Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.
# science
A group of researchers armed with very strong opinions and flawed studies do not constitute a consensus on the effects of video game violence on children.