Scott Lively is one of many evangelical activists pushing hate against the LGBTQ community in Uganda and other African nations. — Since the early 90s, Lively has been crusading against the LGBTQ community around the world, most notably in the US, Latvia, Russia, and Uganda, by spreading demonstrably false claims, founding and running extremist groups, and helping to author hate-based legislation. …

The Quantum World Is Weird, and Now It Seems Even Crazier Than We Thought — Our brains evolved to understand a narrow slice of the universe, and anything outside of this slice seems bizarre. We intuitively grasp the flight of a spear, a running gazelle, or about how long it should take to cross the mountains and return home. All of these were needed to…

Brain enhancement substances have exploded in popularity. But are they a scam? What does the science say? — It seems everyone is hawking some cognitive improvement product these days. Amazon is rife with products from companies like ONNIT, Gorilla Mind, The Genius Mind, among many others. Joe Rogan regularly promotes ONNIT’s Alpha BRAIN. Alex Jones pushes his Brain Force supplements. Stanford professor Andrew Huberman swears by Alpha GPC…

Aspartame, saccharin, stevia, and sucralose make concerning changes to your microbiome, according to new research. — We all love sugar, but our excessive consumption of it is killing us. Global obesity has almost tripled since 1975, according to the WHO. They also claim 39% of adults (1.9 billion) are overweight, 13% of adults (650 million) are obese, and 340 million children over 5 years old are…

Because days are inexplicably becoming longer, we might need the unprecedented negative leap second, but it could break the internet. — Keeping our calendars in sync with the Earth has always been problematic. Any system we create, inevitably needs to be periodically adjusted to lineup with reality. The old Julian calendar needed an extra month added when Roman priests thought necessary. The Gregorian calendar, which is used today by most of…

Some insects can “smell” cancerous cells, possibly leading to new devices for early detection. — Nothing beats a natural nose. Since the early 1980s, researchers have been trying to develop electronic noses, devices that can detect unique airborne chemical signatures, yet anything on the market or even in the lab can’t compete with evolution. Anything produced by humans just can’t match the complexity produced by…

After standing strong for more than 300 years, Newton’s law of universal gravitation might need an update. — Newton published the law of universal gravitation in his 1687 Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and it quickly became one of the most important stones on which physics is built. It explains just about everything we can see, from the flight of a ball through the air to the movement of planets…

We just can’t figure out dark matter. It solves a lot of cosmological mysteries, yet it continues to elude some of our best predictions. — Dark matter gets its name because it doesn’t interact with electromagnetic fields, meaning it doesn’t produce or reflect light. Though we can’t detect it directly, astrophysicists are fairly certain it exists due to its gravitational influence. Even back in 1884, Lord Kelvin looked at the velocity of stars near the…

As a response to a recent wave of book banning, Chaz Stevens wants to ban the Bible. He might have a point. — Banning books in the US isn’t new. As far back 1637, well before US independence, the Puritans banned the book New English Canaan. Written by Thomas Morton, a minor-celebrity activist with a particular interest in protecting Native Americans, his 3 volume book caused outrage among the Puritanical governments for its…