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
Researchers keep confirming that revealing more flesh and using more makeup can dehumanize you, but they haven't figured out exactly why.
# politics
Libertarians and authoritarians can see the exact same thing and cling to diametrically opposite conclusions. And that's going to be a big problem in the very near future.
# tech
A popular philosophical objection to life extension is that it would allow terrible people to live longer. The problem is that there will always be terrible people.
# science
Researchers show that far more of us than we'd admit would harm a stranger for the promise of cold, hard cash.
# politics
According to the pope, his senior advisers, and ardent supporters, the Catholic Church molests kids because... atheists were literally Nazis?
# science
Years of studies show that humans may be born with an innate understanding of good and bad, and prefer being nice to others.
# politics
What the Catholic Church allowed its priests to do to children without consequence is monstrous and inexcusable. But the priests and their amoral henchmen are trying to find excuses anyway.
# politics
Humanity's history of using torture and carving out exceptions for harming other humans into submission proves that our morality is not consistent.
# science
The fellows at the John Templeton Foundation have a new idea of reconciling science and religion: mealy-mouth, vague apologetics.
# sex
Sex sells, and so does moral outrage about sexy things being lucrative.