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
Releasing climate change modeling code to people who can't run it, don't understand it, and are paid to disagree with it and libel you a fraud doesn't do computer scientists any favors.
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Hypothetically, science and technology should have fared better under the liberal Obama administration. In reality, very little has changed.
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Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.
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Ragbir Bhathal responds to Weird Things to set the record straight: the story about his detection of laser signals from Gliese 581g are pure fiction.
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The quest to create an accurate simulation of the brain continues. But what will be this project's most realistic outcome?
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According to the finest minds Templeton could assembly, science is for lazy chumps. Aesthetics and theology is where all the hard work really is.
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When it's getting harder and harder to make truly profound, world-changing discoveries, we have to double down on skepticism to make sure we don't lead ourselves astray.
# space
PZ Myers declares space exploration and colonizing other words dead on arrival. Let me count the way's he's wrong about that...
# tech
Robots and computers are not about to make scientists obsolete. Why? Because they're limited by math.
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Protons might be a little smaller than we thought, and that means we may need to rewrite a lot of the rules we thought we understood about the quantum world.