Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they’ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom…

Remember offices? Assuming that you do, and that you at some point worked in one, you’ve likely spent at least some…

The year is 1997. You’re wearing whatever people wore back then—some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing—and talking…

Let’s say you’re a zombie. You’re lumbering around, doing your zombie-mumble, and just ten feet ahead you see a…

Are you spending your sleeping hours getting chased down endless hallways by men with enormous claws for hands?…

Have the major airlines spent decades suppressing teleportation research? Have a number of renowned scientists in…

Over the years, we at Giz Asks have probed countless aspects of animal behavior and psychology. Which animal is the h…

Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not…

Most workers have no ownership stake in the companies to which they give their labor. This is, if you ask me, not…

It’s a fraught thing, selfie-taking. One moment you’re thinking of yourself as more or less human-looking, and…

According to multiple ads I’ve seen, we are in this thing together. “Together we will prevail,” the ads say. You lay…

Reality has plenty of exit-hatches: strong drugs, streamed television, certain corners of social media. But the most…

Purely on the level of physical appearance, Mark Zuckerberg is unprecedented; I doubt he’s ever once heard the…

Assuming that you don’t have an infinite supply of money—assuming your supply of money is, like most personal…

Life’s hard for the humorless—loved ones die, hurricanes and infections ravage the planet, and all they can do is…

A couple years back, a team of research psychologists ID’d a phenomenon called “cute aggression,” wherein the sight…

From the historical record, it would appear that the medical profession ca. ancient times was a death cult with a…

In the half-decade since he descended from Trump Tower’s escalator into every American’s brain, almost nothing has…

Superstitions—passed down through generations, or developed spontaneously on certain online forums—gobble up…

There are a lot of soft things out there: cats, infants, expertly-laundered sweaters. If there was some kind of…