# oddities
Some companies are quite literally turning to drugs in a desperate, demented search for more productivity as their frustrated employees turn to them for sanity.
# politics
Turns out that if you really want to understand the far right mindset, you should listen to fewer TV pundits and start reading H.P. Lovecraft instead.
# oddities
Countless influencers claim they use science to make people's lives better, longer, and healthier, for a fee, of course. What they're actually doing is selling magic.
# oddities
New research shows that the worse a country's income inequality, the more tolerance it has for buffoons in charge, and sometimes, actually prefers them.
# oddities
Last year, social media's far right denizens were fuming about walkable cities and neighborhoods. They're still fuming to this day.
# politics
A number of studies shows how politics and social media often bring out the worst in us, and how being confronted with face to face discussions often bring out the best.
# tech
From bankrolling disinformation, to stealing content and traffic for error-prone AI, to hiding news stories, Google seems determined to kill the web as we know it.
# space
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope says that we'll need to rethink our model of the universe, and scientists are very excited.
# health
A bizarre experiment shows that your gut biome plays a critical role in anxiety disorders, and that you can (indirectly) pass it on.
# tech
Bacteria are rapidly evolving resistance to more, and higher doses of our most reliable antibiotics, but AI can help us avoid a catastrophe.
# tech
New study shows that far from dispelling misinformation, googling can actually make it sound more plausible and realistic. Why? For money, of course.
# tech
The infamous Dead Internet Theory has been growing more and more real (and costly) by the day. And experts say that in two years, it will be fact.
# astrobiology
A popular Chinese hard sci-fi novel imagines a coming war with an alien species and gets some things right in the process, and badly fumbles the others.
# tech
Moral panics are very profitable for those who fan their flames. And Jonathan Haidt is going to disgusting lows to make sure his sells no matter what.
# science
Injecting a key protein from tardigrades into human cells gives them the same kind of metabolic benefits as the hearty extremophiles.
