By • May 29,2008

Is Freedom Antidemocratic?

That’s a heavily rhetorical question that I might not live up to in this post, but I’ll try anyway for the purposes of casting a sharp, counterintuitive argument in the...

By • May 29,2008

Mechanical Animals: Still Animals

Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to...

By • May 28,2008

Double-Dipping

One of the more deplorable practices of the motion picture industry is that of “double-dipping” on DVDs–in other words, releasing a regular edition DVD and following it up three months...

By • May 28,2008

More on this, please

I’d really be interested in reading about this in long-form, preferably from a mainstream journalistic outlet and not from a website I’ve never read before (no offense intended, Strategy Page,...

By • May 28,2008

Post-Bush Dementia

My main worry about the Bush years is not that the President created problems so terrible that no one can undo them. My main worry is that the President has...