# longform
Sci-fi Saturday returns with what will be part one of a short story...
# tech
Pundits are charging that not only are tech billionaires taking advantage of their employees and automating them out of a job, they're actually on a mission to make humans obsolete.
# tech
Particle colliders have a huge, seldom discussed problem when trying to record experimental data. Solving it could help us find ground breaking new physics and give us a more reliable internet.
# health
Modern houses tend to be clean, so clean that they may be undermining our immune systems, and alongside our addiction to antibiotics, giving us a wide variety of health problems.
# tech
To address income inequality, economists and philosophers keep coming up with the same ideas, most of which involve resurrecting heavy-handed control economies and adding computers.
# science
As official approval of lab-grown meat looms on the horizon, it's a good time to rethink how we feed ourselves and why we need to make a change sooner rather than later.
# health
According to media reports, a recent study found the recipe for a longer life: to be a little overweight and enjoy your beer and lattes. But there's a secret ingredient they're missing...
# tech
As 2018 winds down, it's time to take a quick look back at what happened this year before we ring in the new one...
# tech
Weird Things has returned, but because this hiatus was so different, so is the comeback. This site is changing in new and very important ways to tackle the year ahead.
# oddities
Thanks to modern technology and streaming platforms, conspiracy theories are big business, meaning that you're quite literally paying to have people mess with your mind.
# tech
While rapidly accelerating automation should make it easier to modernize nations still mired in poverty, in the real world, it's upending the economic models on which development experts rely...
# space
A massive collision seems to be the only plausible reason why Uranus is the oddball it is, and now we have an idea of what it might have looked like. So what do we do with this data?
# science
As global temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, scientists are studying the Permian mass extinction for clues to our fate in a world warming out of control.
# tech
Hyperloop designers are dreaming big, which is admirable. What's less admirable is their failure to dream of practical solutions to real world problems.
# science
A new study shows that people with hardline political views are more confident in their decisions, no matter how minor, than moderates. But we still don't know why...
