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.
# evolution
Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.
# tech
It's often tempting to compare advancements in technology to evolution. But they're two fundamentally different processes.
# evolution
A study of how proteins are encoded and translated across a dozen species shows that life on Earth had only one population of universal common ancestors.
# evolution
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini wrote a book about evolution riddled with mistakes called out by biologists. Now they're pretending their critics are faceless nobodies with suspect credentials.
# science
Evolution can explain why you stand upright and have a large brain. It won't explain why you like to watch movies or read books because it doesn't have to.
# science
Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.
# tech
Making robots compete for survival like living things shows us how some complex behaviors like altruism and parasitism might have evolved.
# evolution
Everyone's favorite creationist punchline Ray Comfort decides to weigh in on swine flu. It went about as well as you'd expect.
# science
The famed naturalist and science communicator is back with a new documentary about evolution that avoids similar efforts' typical mistakes.
