Dymaxion World

Just a reminder that the people who brought us to war in Iraq are absolute monsters . The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq h...

(Holy hell, new content on the blog! What's it been, like a decade?) Two data points from the last week or so. First, this long articl...

The title of an academic paper : “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical Stand...

There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the vide...

Bionic implants give sight to the blind. No, really . Know what's good to look at with bionic eyes? Holographic displays . Not techy, bu...

So the state of California is defending an asinine law before the US Supreme court that would allow the state to ban violent videogames. Vi...

But hey, when you're wrong 70% of the time you're right 30% of the time, right? Jesus, this is going to be a long four years. Also, ...

Boy, Europe and America's inability to make nice with Turkey is world-historical stupid . “China must tax carbon” . Of course, once Chin...

A decent short piece in Good Magazine makes the argument that the middle class is basically doomed from a combination of automation and off...

This will probably be the only thing I write about Toronto's municipal elections in this space. We in this city are currently contempla...