I knew there got to be a word for it. It’s called the Streisand effect!
The Streisand effect is a phenomenon on the Internet where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples are attempts to censor a photograph, a file, or even a whole [...]

The Turk: Automation Chess Player.
The Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years, by various owners, as an automaton but later explained in January 1857 as an elaborate hoax. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the [...]

Have you ever found yourself reading pages after pages of Wikipedia articles? Opening numerous amounts of articles in new tabs faster than you can read them?
I often do and I call this wiki-hopping or wiki-walking. Usually I start with searching something I found from a book, website or blog. Then as I read I start [...]

Fermi Paradox: Where Are They?
The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.
The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that if the Earth is typical, extraterrestrial life should [...]