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.
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Would a draft really discourage more Americans from supporting wars abroad?
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Contrary to popular belief, the Apollo program wasn't all that popular when it was underway.
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American voters want scientists to solve their problems out of sight and out of mind. They certainly don't want them in office.
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Should we take Apollo astronauts' advice and send our politicians into space to give them a sense of scale?
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Did the politicians and pundits who sing the virtues of corporate wisdom and privatization ever actually work for one?
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Ian Cowie would like to know where the riff raff got the preposterous idea that their vote should somehow matter if their net worth is less than seven figures.
# space
The future of space exploration should be one of our top priorities as a species. Unfortunately, its continuation, much less success, is not guaranteed.
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Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.
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It seems amazing how many people seem shocked and befuddled that governments viciously compete with one another on the world stage.
# space
Lawmakers are now openly telling NASA exactly what rocket to build, what engines to use, and from what companies to buy them.