The Lost Cause of the Confederacy was a tool in the shape of a history lesson. The American Civil War had just ended, but war is a bitter and terrible thing, and so the country that had so nearly been split in two by war tried to find a way to mend the terrible wounds…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Bad_Ideas_DNF.mp3 Duke Nukem Forever, the sequel to the smash 90’s hit Duke Nukem 3d was in devlopment for 14 years, a record that still stands for the longest development time for a video game.This is the story of that development, a story of ambition and perfectionism and how they almost led to the game never…
On today’s episode of Bad Ideas we look at facilitated communication, a pseudoscience method used to let people with severe autism speak. It sounds like a great idea, letting the voiceless use this method to communicate, but it turns out its entirely fake and that the facilitator is the one speaking for them. More than…