A special, extended Saturday edition on what we saw at the 2016 Olympics in Rio | Photo: Pierre de Coubertin, CC0; and Hector Garcia, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** Last week (before the Headaches of Doom […]
Sometimes I try this thought experiment in which I try to curtail my knee-jerk revulsion to things that seem intensely racist and try to figure out how someone might say (or share) such things while […]
CONtrails | Photo: fdecomite, CC BY 2.0 Say it with me, folks: CONDENSATION trails. CON trails. Not CHEMtrails. *** So in my trawling the net for the craziest things I can find, I came across […]
*** I love the X Prize Foundation. I love the whole concept, which, in short, is that since the “invisible hand” of the market doesn’t provide all the incentives required to generate the forward momentum we […]
When you take money from one place, it can’t go to another. *** I don’t know if everyone shares my love of the movie The Fifth Element, but those who’ve seen it as many times […]
As a part of this blog’s commitment to talking about the future, I’m starting a series of posts on new and different kinds of power generation — because, short of a major cataclysm, we’re going […]
On the week marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Beat movement, we have a guest #FeministFriday longread by writer and literary historian Raven See about bringing the women of the beat generation back […]
In this #SkepticalTuesday #ThrowbackThursday crossover post, I write about the sad case of Wilhelm Reich, pseudoscientist. *** One of my favourite songs by Kate Bush is Cloudbusting, and my friends will tell you I’m a little obsessed with […]
For Throwback Thursday, I’m throwing it all the way back to when you had to pay someone just to sing “Happy Birthday to You” on tv, which is as far back as… *checks watch* …last week. Enjoy! *** […]
The “Forking” of Bitcoin In the past few days, you may have heard, from myself or from others, that Bitcoin “is [or may be] forking.” Just what this means is perhaps a little complicated, but […]