Author: James Poulos

By May 02,2008

'Iron' Wrinkles

Ann Hornaday doesn’t really like Iron Man: Toggling between Stark’s impish goatee and Iron Man’s full-metal body condom, and amid so many generic fireballs, kill shots and earsplitting thumps, bumps...

By May 01,2008

Hill of Beans

That’s it ?* Twenty-nine seconds of head-tilting and button-poking and this is a thing, now? If you don’t know already, BEHOLD: This may be the only kind word for Hillary...

By May 01,2008

Welcome to Earth

In comments [scroll down], Jesse Mazer has pressed me on how my conception of ethics and suffering applies to “intelligent aliens.” if we met a species of intelligent aliens, you...

By Apr 30,2008

W.A.R.E.Z.

Stands for, y’know, We Await Radical-life Extension’s Zarathustra. I see Sonny’s on board, praying for the Great Noontide. Then there’s this guy: As Kevin Warwick gently squeezed his hand into...

By Apr 30,2008

Dissing Humanity With Chimp DNA

Ronald Bailey has an amusing enough post on Those Crazy Scots — specifically, Scots toying with the idea of crossbreeding people and monkeys. Problem area: Professor Hugh McLachlan, professor of...