When I was a young guy living in Florida, on one station we used to get reruns of a television show called "The Saint". I liked the stick figure cartoon and the halo that would appear above his head in the beginning. Roger Moore was cool. read...
read moreWhat big trends can you expect to take hold in 2013? THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 is a new annual trend report that covers a broad range of topics across eight sections; from science to arts, politics to medicine and culture to the environment.I have two articles in the issue, one on science and one on environmental policy - that's right, Richard Branson and James Dyson only get one but they...
read moreSince spot weather events are once again proof of global warming, reversing the trend of 2007 to 2011 when we were told that local weather was not evidence against global warming, it's time to think about the upcoming Ice Age - because we are having a big storm in the northeast, weeks later than when we had a giant snowstorm in 1980 Pennsylvania that knocked out our power for a week, so NYC media...
read morePhysics professor Paul Frampton of UNC Chapel Hill is sitting in an Argentine jail, busted for trying to smuggle out 2 kilos of cocaine, but that hasn’t stopped him from asking for a raise on his $107,000 annual salary - raise as in he wants it doubled.Hey, he has tenure. And a lot of citations.Frampton is in a spat with the school because he says they are improperly withholding his salary....
read moreHow do you make an A-list film with a B-movie budget? You use clever writing, moody atmosphere and then some creative camera work. Result: a lot of fun. read...
read moreAre you buying Halloween candy? Don't you know they use child labor to harvest those cocoa beans? You went to Chick-fil-A? So you don't believe gay parents have just as much right to be annoying at a kid's soccer game as everyone else?It's increasingly the case that someone, somewhere, is going to make a value judgment about you based on what you buy and where. This is the sign...
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