How to Bore a Chat Bot

This happens all the time. You’re on AIM, Skype, whatever you kids are using these days, and here comes aย pingย from some heavily made-up young lady you don’t knowย with a multi-numbered generic name. Most of us ignore or block these, because clearly someone called SexxiGurl087421 is a bot, right? Not Clive Thompson. He decided to have […]





The Age of the Earth According to People on the Street [Video]

With the exception of Creationists (which is another post entirely), most people know the Earth took a very long time to coalesce and form the big, wet, spinning rock we call home. How long, however, is not common knowledge… apparently. Watch as a sad sort of misinformed hilarity ensues: The guy who said “A couple […]