How Machines Make Us *Think* They Can Think

What Is A Black Swan Event?

Will A Frog Really Stay In Boiling Water?

The Forbidden Experiment (That Has Been Done Several Times Throughout History)

The Mystery of the Left-handed Stegosaurus

This Is The Elevator Paradox

How Algorithms Are Homogenizing Music (and the World)

How Streaming Music Ended a War (The Loudness War, That Is)

Worst Year Ever

The Most Popular Toy in History (Possibly the best-selling product ever made?)

These Teeth Changed The World (And We'll Never Know Who Found Them)

How This Non-Profit Massively Reduced Violent Crime by Treating it Like a Virus

Why Don't (More) Americans Vote?

The Lonesome Extinction of Blockbuster

The Virtual Plague That Predicted A Real Pandemic (2005 WoW Corrupted Blood Incident)

The Legendary Shelf Life of a Twinkie (How Long Can a Twinkie REALLY Last?)

Modern Food Delivery Was Forged In Battle (And Beat the Nazis)

How We Beat the Y2K Bug (Or Not)

Waffle House Never Closes (Unless It's Really Bad)

Should You Feel Guilty For Having Children?

That Time Pepsi Became a Global Military Power (And Took Over the USSR)

Why Are Americans so Crazy About Guns?

Is This Whale a Russian Spy?

How the First Black Friday Nearly Destroyed the Economy

The Tortoises That Beat Humans to the Moon

The Only Photo of the Whole Earth Taken by a Person

How Mt. Everest Got So Overcrowded (SPOILER: It's Money)

This is When Humans Will Go Extinct (Probably)

The Bet That "Proved" the Earth Is Flat (Or, Why Facts Aren't Always Enough)

Why is America So Scared of Socialism?