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.
# podcast
The Fishes debate the future of transportation and the likelihood that you'll be flying to work with your own, personal jetpack.
# tech
Imagine a device from science fiction capable of creating a self-replicating, constantly improving robotic hivemind. I wanted to know if we could build one today. Then I sort of did.
# podcast
Some of the most frequently seen and impressive sci-fi weapons in movies and TV shows have a dirty little secret. They wouldn’t actually work as advertised, if they work at all.
# podcast
In sci-fi movies, explorers arrive on alien worlds in the blink of an eye using warp drives, or cheat time with cryogenic sleep chambers. But how would interstellar travel actually work in the real world?
# sci-fi saturday
Sci-fi Saturday returns with what will be part one of a short story...
# sci-fi saturday
Another short sci-fi story for your weekend distraction.
# tech
Next year will focus on reviewing what to do with old project and experimenting with new ones.
# politics
If the world ever tried to come together as one government the reason wouldn't be pan-species utopianism, but cold, hard cash.
# science
Why is R'yleh, the fictional underwater city where Cthulhu lies dead-dreaming, appear so insanely unreal, literally? One physicist thinks he knows the answer.