Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is [...]

The small penises and social skills part is just made up. Sorry about that. Had to grab your attention somehow. It’s my big brain. I can’t help myself. The truth of the matter is that researchers have concluded that smart people have larger parietal and frontal lobes.
Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein’s [...]

I had not heard the name Peter Thiel until today. But the Google millionaire has just shelled out a down payment on a very interesting idea: seasteading.
Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth?
If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have [...]

It’s an old urban legend that the Mythbusters should investigate - they’ve done gun stuff before though. You’ve probably seen it happen in a Western or two. You may have heard of it happening on the battlefield. A Bible in someone’s pocket stops a bullet.
I’ve decided to find out if such an event could really [...]

I know exactly what it feels like to be a negro. At least I do when it comes to gun control.
In 1840, the North Carolina supreme court passed a statute decreeing: “That if any free negro, mulatto, or free person of colour, shall wear or carry about his or her person, or keep in his [...]