SciFriday: Your Secret Surveillance Score

August 7, 2020

Surveillance capitalism reaches much deeper into your life than you know. Specialized tech companies are mining your personal data to assemble digital profiles to predict your future behavior.

SciFriday: Photobombing the Comet

July 31, 2020

We’ve reached a strange point in human history: Taking photographs of the stars is becoming more difficult because of the man-made satellites in orbit that keep getting in the way.

SciFriday: Sharkcano, the North Pole, and #HomeschoolAmerica

July 24, 2020

Researchers have discovered two species of shark living in the crater of an active underwater volcano. They think it has something to do with magnetism.

SciFriday: Flying Snakes and Incepted Mice

July 3, 2020

Researchers have learned why flying snakes undulate through the air and how to use light to make mice smell something that isn’t there.

SciFriday: Beware of the Blob!

June 26, 2020

Geologists have discovered monstrous, continent-sized blobs of hot rock near the boundary between the earth’s mantle and its molten iron core.

SciFriday: The Marx Brothers Do Science

June 19, 2020

That’s how renowned French microbiologist Didier Raoult describes Oxford’s RECOVERY trial of hydroxychloroquine as a therapy for COVID-19.

SciFriday: Chaos, COVID, and Chatham House Rules

June 12, 2020

Secret meetings may be responsible for the bogus study that pushed the World Health Organization away from a cheap treatment for COVID-19 and toward a much more expensive drug.

SciFriday: Chaos and the Code

May 22, 2020

All of creation is undergirded by mathematics. This implies a code behind our reality—and that means Somebody wrote the code.

SciFriday: Technocracy and Free Will

May 15, 2020

Can human society be reduced manageable algorithms in order to program a perfect society? That’s a question explored by the HBO series Westworld, but it’s also becoming more relevant in these days of contact tracing, social distancing, and the rise of globalist technocracy.

SciFriday: Fowl-purgisnacht

May 1, 2020

A town in Sweden decided to enforce COVID-19 social distancing for last night’s annual Walpurgisnacht festival by spreading a ton of chicken poop in the city park.

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