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.
# sex
People in polyamorous relationships often say it's unfair to expect to have all their needs met by one person. According to psychologists, they might have a good point.
# science
A project to replicate studies it found problematic is running into its own replication problems and not following experimental designs.
# science
It's a lot easier to get your paper noticed and read if people can understand what you're trying to say and why. And scientists crunched the numbers to prove it.
# science
Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.
# science
If you publish enough complex, highly speculative papers with untestable predictions, eventually, you're going to get trolled.