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
Hypothetically, science and technology should have fared better under the liberal Obama administration. In reality, very little has changed.
# politics
Sometimes angry calls for more civility in political and social discourse are necessary. And sometimes they're just a muzzle for partisan bloviators who can dish it out but can't take it.
# politics
The Tea Party is gladly willing to sabotage science, education, technology, and anything else that reminds them that the world is changing because to them, change is scary.
# politics
It's awfully hard to come up with ways to combat global warming when politicians are harassing climatologists for daring to conduct their research and find proof that the planet is heating up.
# science
Yes, the rumors are true, Conservapedia, the right wing anti-Wikipedia, thinks relativity is a liberal plot to indoctrinate new atheists.
# space
The left seems to believe that private space companies will be fine with sacrificing their customers for profit.
# politics
Partisan tribalism is so toxic, it can indirectly influence people to vote against their best interests just to make a statement.
# politics
Bobby Jindal is a rising star within the GOP. Unfortunately, it's because he keeps picking battles with scientific reality.