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.
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Somehow, instead of becoming a de facto standard, environmentally-friendly products have become an expensive, must-have accessory.
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Unfortunately for those of us who'd like to remain alive and not irradiated, the ghost of Mutually Assured Destruction lives on.
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What the Catholic Church allowed its priests to do to children without consequence is monstrous and inexcusable. But the priests and their amoral henchmen are trying to find excuses anyway.
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Templeton sends a not so subtle signal to the National Academy of Sciences that they intend to keep spreading their tentacles deeper and deeper into all public discourse about science.
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Nuclear energy has to be harnessed with great care and radiation is extremely dangerous if not properly contained. But fear-mongering about both to shut down nuclear power generation is simply dishonest.
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Just to answer the questions, no, I'm not interested in participating in the branding and sale of Atheism BrandTM Atheism...
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Professor Massimo Pigliucci is trying to make a case for accommodating believers railing against science and fact-based education and discourse with some very flimsy arguments...
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NASA's ability to hit ambitious future targets has to rely on private companies willing and eager to get to space, not traditional defense contractors.
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Partisan tribalism is so toxic, it can indirectly influence people to vote against their best interests just to make a statement.
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This blog's creationist readers appear to need a reminder the criticizing their statements is not the same thing as disagreeing with a deity.