Giz Asks

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…

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…

Pretty much everyone can agree that mold looks disgusting, or worse than disgusting. It lays claim to hummus tubs…

People say America doesn’t make things anymore. But what about toxic chemicals? We make so many of those, we throw…

There are countless questions the novice exerciser should be asking themselves before their first day at the gym. I…

Social media is awful and whatever pleasures it confers in the form of mildly amusing memes or a fleeting sense of…