Or: Roger Ebert takes himself too seriously.
On my old blog, I wrote an analysis of the original Transformers movie in light of memetic theory. It bore the title, “Do you really think we can trust the Decepticons?”
It was common in eighties action cartoons, like Transformers, to have an episode where the “good guys” and [...]
As you may well know, I hold firm to the idea that science is profoundly important to humans, though it’s sometimes a difficult thing to articulate exactly why. And so, at the risk of beating the proverbial horse, I’m going to take another crack at establishing some of philosophical reasons for scientific research.
One of [...]
I want to make it perfectly clear that I am, in fact, totally pumped that we’re finally getting back into legitimate space exploration. The thing is, there are perfectly justifiable reasons for going to the moon aside from the obvious intrinsic merit–the “cool” factor that I’ve talked about in the past.
It’s all a test. [...]
The biggest problem with Mac’s “I’m a Mac” ad campagin with Justin Long and John Hodgman is that John Hodgman is so much more charismatic. I mean, is there anyone out there that likes Justin Long? Anyone that doesn’t think he’s a totally obnoxious ass?
They make a lot of claims in these ads [...]
So a team of scientists first created element 112 back in 1996, but it was only recently that they have been given credit for the discovery.
There are a lot of interesting things to look at here. First of all, it was created by smashing zinc atoms into a target made of lead. I’ve [...]
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