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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Capitalism is a tool, not a deity to be worshipped, much less with the inherent arrogance of Objectivism.
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Nuclear weapons are pretty much the only weapons you can't actually use and expect to survive the end result.
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Bobby Jindal is a rising star within the GOP. Unfortunately, it's because he keeps picking battles with scientific reality.
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Sometimes the comments are more telling than the reporting on an important issue in science education.
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How to view history through the prism of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
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Self-destructive greed is not good, especially self-destructive greed financed with public money.
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Pastors and theologians worried about religion becoming a business are a few millennia too late to voice their concern.
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America's culture is smothering its scientists and their innovations under a cloud of apathy and contempt.
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Humanity is growing in number and we're starting to strain the planet and ourselves.