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
When we say that a politician's character matters, we're talking about their ability to make good, ethical decisions. It turns out, it also matters when it comes to voters' attitudes.
# science
People are consuming more news than ever before and it's making them angrier, more frustrated, and overwhelmed thanks to the people who dominate the news cycles.
# politics
It's bad enough when conspiracy theorists with an axe to grind decide who gets to run nations. It's far worse when those they elect are just as wild-eyed and paranoid.
# politics
Republican voters may cherry pick the science of climate change, but they love green energy in their backyards. So why are the lawmakers they elect trying to kill it?
# tech
Widespread automation is about to hit the developing world, hard.
# politics
Congressman Lamar Smith desperately wants another Climategate and he's happy to abuse his power to manufacture one.
# science
Too many of the lawmakers who sit on the House Science and Technology Committee are the absolute worst people to be on such a committee.
# tech
First, Congress was telling engineers how to build their rockets. Now it's telling programmers how to write their software.
# tech
Governments censoring, filtering, and manipulating the internet, so hot right now.
# education
Politicians seem to be really upset with people learning things from which they might not get immediate, quantifiable benefit. And that's the worst possible attitude about education.