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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In today’s Gilded Age with global warming, advocacy for socialism is on the rise, framed as a requirement to save our planet. But the idea that socialism can save us from ourselves has been tried before. It ended badly.
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In their fight against postmodernism, the so-called dark web intellectuals managed to create its regressive parallel universe clone.
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Thanksgiving marks the start of the winter holidays and the dread associated with having to deal with relatives and family friends you rather wouldn’t...
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The 2018 midterms may be the most important vote today’s generations will cast for science, technology, and the basic social contract in America. The future is at stake, literally.
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I tried writing about politics for a year and a half. My experience was eye-opening in the worst possible ways...
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A deep dive into the yawning chasm that is the urban/rural divide.
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Trump & Co. are showing us what happens when amateurs with huge chips on their shoulder take on jobs that require nuance and expertise.
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Trumpism is nothing more than the political equivalent of alt med woo and it's bound to have the same efficacy.
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How do you reach people who don't want to be reached and reason with those who refuse the very idea of reasoning?
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It's been a long, rough year for anyone who wasn't hoping to set the modern world back by half a century.