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.
# oddities
Today, if you want to get famous and turn being you into a career you join a reality TV show. But back in the day, you had to pretend to be a blood-drinking, virgin-sacrificing Satanist...
# politics
Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.
# science
When reporters already know what story they're going to write, your research becomes nothing more than bastardized fodder.
# oddities
According to Blaise Pascal, believers have nothing to lose from putting their faith into a deity that might not exist while atheists shoulder all the risk. But what if Pascal missed what it means to be a believer?
# oddities
What the Georgia Guidestones teach us about the history behind mysterious monuments that stood the test of time.
# science
Most people in a hole know to stop digging. Mooney and Kirshenbaum are bringing in heavy mining equipment and redoubling their efforts.
# politics
When your worldview gets popular, you're going to get followers who are in it only to jump on the bandwagon.
# science
Francis Collins wants us to think he's a scientist who discovered God in his work instead of a believer using cherry picked science to justify his faith.
# science
A group of communicators have a new idea for dealing with religious zealots on a warpath against science education: shirk from the challenge.
# oddities
The wealthy, secretive UFO cult is back in the news and they're not taking it well.