For a book about nothing, Charles Seife’s Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea sure is something. “The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of […]
Ceci n’est pas Pink #@#@^&%$ Floyd… Historians often argue that dates should not be the focus of history. Hell, much of the last quarter century has been dominated by intellectuals arguing that […]
America’s First Family, Boomer parents’ edition The Boomers are the first TV generation. We’ve been intimates of television since its infancy as the mass medium of choice for Americans. Because of television’s […]
The O2 squats on the banks of the Thames on the Greenwich peninsula in south east London. Within it is the 23,000 seater O2 Arena. On 28 March it was not full. […]
by Djerrid Hi everyone! Sorry for posting two days early last week. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
Not Mr. Jones…. Everything starts somewhere. This series of posts starts from a thoughtful post by Sara Robinson over at Campaign for America’s Future that our colleague Russ Wellen alerted us to. […]
by mentalswitch There are three mainstays in today’s Hollywood: sex, violence and special effects. Special effects in movies, when well done, are fun. They help us escape from our lives to enjoy […]
Part 2 of a series; Previously: What Bell Labs and French Intellectuals Can Tell Us About Cronkite and Couric The Signal-to-Noise Journey of American Media The 20th Century represented a Golden Age […]
Part one of a two-part series. From Walter Cronkite to Katie Couric: the Kingdom of Signal is swallowed by the Empire of Noise The recent death of Walter Cronkite spurred the predictable […]
This came to me just now in an e-mail exchange with our friend John Harvin. So, tell me – am I onto something? Has this already been said? In any public communication […]
