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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Humans are still evolving and a new study shows exactly what changed in our genomes over the last 10,000 years.
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Respectful debates help us learn and improve the public discourse. But there's a catch. Those debates can't be so respectful that they refuse to call out abject nonsense.
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Just because the appendix is a vestigial organ doesn't mean it can't perform a minor beneficial function every once in a while.
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Bill Dembski thinks he can disprove evolution with information theory. But he doesn't understand enough about biology or statistics to apply it.
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Wormholes exist, but they may be impractical for travel according to what we know about the physics behind them.
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The Creation Museum is running a science fair. Yes, it's the same thing as a slaughterhouse having a confab about veganism.
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Philosopher Michael Ruse would like his discussions about science and religion to have a lot less science and a lot more credulity towards faith...
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Most people in a hole know to stop digging. Mooney and Kirshenbaum are bringing in heavy mining equipment and redoubling their efforts.
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Two physicists ask if you could ever expose the mysterious core of a black hole in a new paper.
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Ken Ham's temple of ignorance asks a simple-minded, leading question. We should still answer it.