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Category: Science
Fun Friday: The Enlightenment, Part 2 Edition
Yesterday I rode my bicycle past a BP gas station. Almost every pump station was occupied by a hulking SUV, … More
Fun Friday: The End of the World as We Know It Edition
It’s now been scientifically proven that the Internet totally destroys your attention span, so I will keep this Fun Friday … More
Enduring Miracles: MAS Context’s ENERGY Issue
The latest issue of MAS Context is called ENERGY. The theme is playfully broad, covering everything from nuclear power plants … More
Deconstructing Distractions
Writing in his excellent Sentences blog, Wyatt Mason reminds us that intellectual labor has always been hard work, even in … More
The Power House
Walter Benjamin was interested in what he called the physiognomy of the thing world. He used one of his most … More
Misery
"We are annihilating melancholia," Professor Eric G. Wilson warns. Reading his essay, "In Praise of Melancholy," excerpted from his book Against … More
SimApocalypse
Back when I had spare time–i.e., before I had children–I sometimes played SimCity. As the game grew more realistic with … More
Caught in the Matrix of the Housing Bubble
Cult films are a distinctive feature of post-modern cinema. In an earlier post I argued that Napoleon Dynamite is a … More
Life Stories and the Novel
Die-hard Monty Python fans will remember the spoof of the Icelandic sagas in which the name of each character is … More
One-Way Street 