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
Stephen Wolfram joins a long line of theoreticians who believe they uncovered how the universe really works. He, like all of them, is almost certainly wrong.
# science
A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?
# science
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.
# science
Since Dembski considered it beneath him to answer my design question, someone else tries to take a shot at them.
# evolution
A few questions for the Great Creationist Information Theory Wizard William Albert Dembski about the design of the human body and genome.
# evolution
There seems to be nothing creationists won't blame on Charles Darwin, especially the Holocaust.
# space
It's actually a good thing there's a debate about whether to classify Pluto as a planet or something else.
# education
Parents were shocked by the offensive content on the t-shirts worn by the Smith-Cotton High School marching band: a reference to evolution.
# science
Evidence doesn't go away just because you choose to ignore it.