Darwin's Gong Show
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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Comedian in Chief
Donald Trump’s tweets, disturbing on many levels, are a real…
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Knowledge Is Power (and Salvation) – Even in Prison
“I continued to search and devour anthropology, history, biology, philosophy.…
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Pruitt a Train Wreck of a Potential EPA Chief
Scott Pruitt, perhaps the worst of all Donald Trump’s administration…
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Facebook Readying Tech to Bring out the Worst(est) in You
Facebook just might be laying the groundwork for mind-reading technology…
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How Specific Demographics Viewed the Election Results
We know how folk of sound mind viewed the results…
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If Trump Can Get Elected…
If a thin-skinned, small-handed huckster as disciplined and cerebral as…
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Small Victory in a Year of Big Losses
On December 31st, it seemed that when most of the…
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Hole in the Heart
The Washington Post reports that “Americans are dying from a…
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Epidemic Defined
If you want to see what an epidemic actually looks…
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The Empathy Project
“He auctioned off the pistol that killed Trayvon Martin. She…
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Some Perspective
As Austin Powers would ask, “What does it all mean,…
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