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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Forget red states vs. blue states. The electoral showdown in 2016 is between where we've been and where we need to go.
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Without cultural appropriation, we wouldn't have any surviving cultures in the first place.
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In American history, conspiracy theorists taking out their frustrations at the ballot box are far from an anomaly.
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Baby Boomers are very upset with Millennials for trying to make work more meaningful and comfortable after watching them suffer.
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Universal Basic Income seems like a compassionate, forward-looking idea. But in reality, it's little more than a band aid that needs a lot more thought.
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Donald Trump being a viable presidential candidate should be a major sign that we're careening into the future with no plan and a system that's coming unglued.
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A thorough study of prison records spanning 15 years shows that recidivism is actually a lot lower than the numbers commonly cited in the media.
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Congressman Lamar Smith desperately wants another Climategate and he's happy to abuse his power to manufacture one.
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The problem with wealth inequality isn't that it exists, it's how easily the 1% are running up the score and how angry they are that they're not being uniformly worshipped.
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A plan to save the planet by letting half of it revert to a wilderness may not be as unrealistic as it seems at first blush.