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
Michio Kaku talks quantum computing at Big Think. It doesn't go well. It doesn't go well at all.
# astrobiology
It's not completely impossible that you could have some alien DNA. But the odds are literally astronomical.
# space
GJ 436b has some interesting chemistry, but it's not rewriting astronomy and chemistry books, nor is it a huge surprise to scientists.
# space
Despite what the media might have told you, we don't actually know if a rocky planet slammed into Jupiter or not.
# science
Being told more people believed something makes you more likely to believe it too, even if science says the exact opposite.
# astrobiology
NatGeo gave ancient astronaut theorists the time of day, but did little to rebuke their pseudoscientific arguments in a rare miss.
# evolution
Deepak Chopra's fluffy quantum creationist woo has a new imitator and he's ready to disappoint readers with a buzzword salad of an essay.
# science
Chris Mooney has effectively allowed the Templeton Foundation to bribe him not to write anything negative about religious zealotry or over-reach.
# evolution
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini wrote a book about evolution riddled with mistakes called out by biologists. Now they're pretending their critics are faceless nobodies with suspect credentials.
# science
After failing to fix science education, Chris Mooney is taking his failed approach to the vaccine manufactroversy.