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
Can we really crunch enough numbers to predict future trends, products, and people's behaviors?
# tech
Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.
# science
Years of studies show that humans may be born with an innate understanding of good and bad, and prefer being nice to others.
# science
WeCU Technologies thinks it can read the minds of would-be terrorists , and they want to test their approach at airports. Unfortunately, their approach is unlikely to work.
# health
Depression is a serious affliction, but we also need to prevent turning normal human emotions into pathologies.
# science
According to science, managers are nowhere as great as they think they are.
