# health
One of scientists' biggest fears about fungi and global warming is slowly starting to play out as temperatures soar.
# science
If you believe popular science headlines, our cosmos could unravel at any instant. It's very unlikely, but the idea's core questions are still worth asking.
# politics
When anything done in good faith and boring competence always get a negative spin, why bother trying to help or inform anyone?
# health
In a classic move of our newly regressive times, a public health menace is being put in charge of managing public health and the next pandemic.
# oddities
A ramble about social media algorithms, the creator economy, and the futility of trying to go viral for a living.
# tech
Not everyone needs a "pivot to AI." Far more often than not, off the shelf models are all your company needs, and even that might be overkill.
# sex
In an ever more crowded and difficult to navigate social media landscape, more wanna be influencers and viral stars are trying to get attention by emulating porn stars.
# tech
A group of researchers claims chat bots have as good of a grasp of others' moods and reasoning as we do. But there's an oversight that could render these findings moot...
# science
A new discovery by scientists shows an organism becoming part of another, proving an idea that creationists insisted was impossible.
# space
A Japanese company claims they have a plan of how to build an elevator all the way into orbit by 2050. Unfortunately, that plan requires technology on par with magic.
# oddities
A new study hints that many QAnon believers weren't far right paranoiacs but totally apolitical bystanders. But how and why were they sucked into Satanic Panic 2.0?
# space
The idea that the Moon landing was faked has by now been debunked by just about everyone and their twice removed sister-in-law's grandma. So, how is it still around?!
# space
Before actually landing on the Moon, both the U.S. and USSR were planning to use our natural satellite primarily for war.
# longform
However bizarre you think Silicon Valley's sudden obsession with AI, I assure you, its roots are way weirder than that, and so are the plans for an "AI-powered" future.
# science
According to popular science headlines claim that we've cracked how to make a warp drive within the known laws of physics. The reality is a lot more complicated.
