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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Bleeding edge science isn't always right, especially when it tries to figure out free will and how we think.
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A filmmaker trying to kick-start a controversy to market a biographical movie about Charles Darwin is finding it hard to get attention. But why?
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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.
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Turns out that most people really do get promoted to their level of incompetence thanks to corporate cultures based on bad assumptions.
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Like a dog trying to mark every tree, the Templeton Foundation is trying to mark every scientific breakthrough as being motivated entirely by religion.
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A number of researchers and utopian pundits are promising radical life extension, if not unlimited lifespans. But the science behind their claims is shaky to non-existent.
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Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.
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When reporters already know what story they're going to write, your research becomes nothing more than bastardized fodder.
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If time travel is possible, what direction would be the easiest to visit and have the fewest limitations?