A Jupiter Moon Gets Weird(er)
One of the things I love most about science is the way that new information makes pig's breakfasts of old ideas. Example: new information about the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon…
How To Hide Your Ill-Gotten Booty
I've never had this problem personally. (I'm a fiction writer and educator, so money is allergic to me.) But it is possible that some of you reading this are very…
10 Steps To Radically Increase Your Odds of Succeeding in Business.
From Anil Dash. I'll just give you step one: Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I've ever spoken to has a toilet!) …
First Birthday Without
Today would have been my Dad's 93rd birthday. Venice took this brief film on my Dad's 90th birthday, and I thought I'd throw it up here as a memory of…
Quote That Made My Weekend
Ah, Gore Vidal, you got a little weird at the end, but when you were on, you were magic: In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger…
Michelle Shocks
Charles Krafft had me asking the question of how far artists can go round the twist before screwing up impressions of their work. Now comes Michelle Shocked. I'd never been…
How Far Is Too Far For An Artist?
Charles Krafft's response to the charge that he's a Holocaust denier raises the question of how audiences respond to artists they once admired once their opinions go round the twist.…
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on ID’s Failings
After a 1700 word (!) post yesterday, I thought I'd let someone else do todays talking, so I'll turns things over to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium…
Denialism Chronicles: The Strange Case of Charles Krafft
Blogging's been light recently because I've been wrapping up applications for fellowships for the now-seriously-it's-ready-but-wait-let-me-change-one-last-thing Denial screenplay. But this story about the apparently well-regarded ceramic artist Charles Krafft in The Stranger drew my…
Kerry: “You Have the Right to Be Stupid.” Nation’s Idiots Still Fear Government Will Seize Their Stupidity.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiuV8vF8K_s&w=560&h=315] I'm actually glad John Kerry said this. I'm glad he said it in Germany, which has a habit of jailing its local idiots when they distribute their particular brand…