In a culture where everyone’s too distracted to remember more than a sound bite or a quote, everything gets taken out of context. Lost are those all-important assumptions, nuances, caveats, and tradeoffs that make all the difference when it comes to decision-making. Take “do what you love” and the essentially[…] Read On
Searching for a scary movie to watch on Halloween, we came across Idiocracy, a sci-fi satire about the world’s dystopian future. Not a horror film, but its prophetic depiction of the dumbed-down society we’re rapidly becoming is terrifying, nonetheless. Written and directed by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and Silicon[…] Read On
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I mean, who isn’t into dressing up and getting a little crazy once a year? That’s probably why Halloween parties are always the best. You can sort of act out a wild alter ego and get away with it. When I was a[…] Read On
By now we’ve all noticed how folks act out and behave aggressively a lot more online than they ever would in person. We see it everywhere: Trolls on Twitter, hate-speech on Facebook, and vitriolic comments on blogs and media articles. Of course, there’s still the good-old standard: flame emails. I[…] Read On
If you want to go to Pluto, better bring your Uggs and a flashlight. The dwarf planet is so far from the Sun that it’s perpetual nighttime with a surface temperature of minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit. As Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto, scientists expected to find very little going[…] Read On