I am told "Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a good film. I enjoyed the first movie well enough, even if it was noisy in all of the wrong ways. The sequel hurt both my eyes and my sensibilities but at least the pain in my eyes had an easy explanation: Michael Bay, or perhaps his cinematographer, read some science and discovered that flesh tones, which exist in the orange...
read moreI am told "Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a good film. I enjoyed the first movie well enough, even if it was noisy in all of the wrong ways. The sequel hurt both my eyes and my sensibilities but at least the pain in my eyes had an easy explanation: Michael Bay, or perhaps his cinematographer, read some science and discovered that flesh tones, which exist in the orange...
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You remember Myspace, right? It came after Friendster but was smart enough to take a check from Rupert Murdoch instead of withering away to obscurity and then being sold for peanuts. If you’re a teenage girl in love with customizing as many colors and fonts as possible, you may even have a Myspace account. Facebook, of course, killed Myspace and News Corp.’s $500 million purchase...
read moreScience 2.0 favorite Lawrence Krauss of ASU tackled the James Webb Space Telescope issue on the Richard Dawkins website and a commenter there linked to my rationalization that canceling it might be okay, with the hasty disclaimer that he does not agree with what I write - the Dawkins site moderators, and perhaps Dawkins himself, have made their distaste for anyone outside the echo chamber well...
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When you came from a hunting culture growing up when I grew up, you were going to hunt. You may not have wanted to hunt but you were going to hunt. For a lot of families who never get coverage in the New York Times, the working poor, food is a priority, not free health care and taxing the rich.(1) It’s a lot of pressure for a kid, especially in a family that had great hunters and not a...
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