Darwin's Gong Show
Our Lazy Relationship with Reality
This week Roy Scranton — combat veteran, author, and Notre…
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Death and Dying, Life and Living
I have no clue how typical my Twitter feed is.…
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Because We Can
If you think of technology as the materialized knowhow of…
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Last Second Shot
If you’re lucky enough to get out for a snorkel…
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Waiting for Go D’oh (to Return)
From our present perch a survey of the past might…
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Anyone Tired of This Yet?
Massacres in the U.S. are like the Bill Murray movie Groundhog…
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Unity or Conformity?
A snippet from Hans Eijkelboom’s book People of the Twenty-First Century gives…
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Did We Stop Dreaming Big in the 1970s?
An audiophile and a cinephile could surely make the case…
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A Wonderful Reminder from Fugazi
It doesn’t come close to being there. But it comes…
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You Elected Him, and Now You’re Surprised?
Only if you’ve never seen his highlight reel.. Here’s how…
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Repurposing Teachers
The idea that technology = progress continues to catch hold.…
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Google Teaches AI to Edit Images for Other AI to Enjoy
Another AI breakthrough from Google. According to The Next Web,…
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A Case of Mistaken Identity
There’s lots to be said about evolution, faith, and technology. This…
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Eyes, Not Webs, Connect Us
There are about 18 billion of them on Earth. Eyes,…
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Lost Art of the Music Video
Not sure if MTV or MuchMusic shows music videos anymore,…
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Happy Birthday Mr. Beckett
Were he still alive, Samuel Beckett would be 111 today.…
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Fan in Praise of Music
Most of the time it’s best to just let the music…
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The Climate Engineering Wimp Out
There must be a term for it, for accepting a…
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To Generate Change, You Need to Create Empathy
Want to know why some Trump voters still support him,…
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The Irony Is Killing Us
Havoc has a name — and a fixed-move-out-date-residence at 1600…
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Fake Is about to Get a Whole New Meaning
Fake news, so much in the news, is a matter…
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Poetry and Painting in the Age of Google
Google Arts and Culture, the site and the app, is…
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The State / Fate of Humanity – March 2017
Here is your present + future: Verdict:
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The Magical Need of the Artist
It was scribbled in these parts years ago that “it shall…
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Why So Ready to Forsake?
Our planet is so verdant with life we’re still ages…
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Pretty But… Deadly?
We’re nearly at the 17th anniversary of Bill Joy’s warning…
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This Isn’t How Social Media Was Supposed to Be
According to Bloomberg, Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane. Before we…
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Taking the Bible Thumpers Down a Notch
It’s pretty clear that from right around day one, the…
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Now Arriving: the Future (with Guests)
The real world and the worst of our dystopian nightmares have…
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This Is Happening
The message from scientists studying the effects of climate change:…
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Tech Rules Us – Will It Ruin Us?
We love our gadgets, apps, and Internet. We use them,…
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Ang Lee Pokes at Our Complicity
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an important story of…
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Humans and Tech in Harmony
It’s a tech story and it’s a people story. Not…
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Time to Fight the Hard Fight
Things are looking down. Just take a gander at how our…
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Sweetness!
Sublime creative forces are alive and well, and giving us…
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