The Dope on Ancient Olympians
As the Rio Olympics captivate us with fantastical feats of athleticism, it’s hard not to reflect on the glorious origins of the Greek Olympiad, dating back to 776 BC, and […]
Empire in Decline
Honor The Pathogen
I’m a proud homo sapien, as you no doubt are, and though I’ve only been around for a few measly decades, I have little shame in claiming the title of […]
Soon To Be Mooned
A few aggregated facts about our impact on the planet earth that should have jolted us from our business-as-usual mindsets but hasn’t: At this moment, there are roughly 1 billion people […]
How I Learned To Love Coronal Mass Ejections
In 1859, a storm like no other in human history ravage the planet. Oddly enough, it was neither rain, nor snow, nor hurricane winds that did the damage. This storm […]
Donald in Dismaland
It should be a relief to artists everywhere to see that international notoriety and its accompanying wealth hasn’t dulled the creative blade of Banksy. The bête noire of the gallery […]
A Ray of Hope
What if you never had to pay another utility bill for the rest of your life? What if, instead of dishing-out for oil, gas, or electric every month, you got paid […]
Your Molecules Or Your Life
Security through biology: like everything else that’s ostensibly science-fiction, it was real before it was make-believe. For the last five years, enforcement agencies across this slowly decaying, still great nation, have […]
The Dope on Dope
The New York Times editorial board recently and wholeheartedly endorsed the legalization of marijuana. Stop the presses. Break out the herb grinder. Prepare to add a little more vapor to […]
Streaming Burnout
For those out there yet to hop on the Burnout Bandwagon, just a quick “alert” to let you know there’s almost no room left. Everyone’s knee deep in it, whether it’s socially […]
Look Out Multiverse, Here We Come
Since the Industrial Age kicked off three hundred years ago, our glorious species has been gleefully pillaging and polluting the planet with the impunity most often reserved for maladapted viruses– […]
I’m Walkin’ Here!
As a decade long New York transplant, there’s nothing more galvanizing than witnessing downtown Los Angeles come to life– explode, might be a better adjective– with nationally recognized restaurants, brand […]
Google Brain, On Sale Now
Flip on any screen that plays a moving image and you’ll see a fast spreading cultural meme in films, TV series and TED talks alike: human beings are integrating technology […]
Jelly Roll Blues and Antigravity
So the facts are out, and the news is devastating. If you’ve been living in a cave and haven’t heard, brace yourself: Jellyfish born in space have “massive vertigo” when […]
Hurry Up Right Now Too Late You Missed it!
Anyone else getting the sinking feeling that no matter what you achieve in life it’ll be quickly lost in the spiraling eddy of data-overload that now engrosses every aspect of […]
The World Is My Recliner
We’ve all seen Wall-E, right? It’s starting to feel like if the film wasn’t animated it could be a documentary about the near future. The floating fatsos in their all encompassing […]
Human Exceptionalism And The Zombie Apocalypse
Now that we’ve Zombified ourselves to death in tv and film– Wikipedia lists 641 individual titles– let us pause and contemplate our fascination with the denigration of the human race […]
Here’s the (Sandy) Hook
Why is it easier for a teenager to get a semi-automatic weapon and enough bullets to level a school full of children than it is to get a case of […]
When “Blank” Friday Comes…
It got a little misty in the hours after Thanksgiving dinner. A marine layer filled the air just enough to blur the omnipresent police flashers as a gaggle of cops redirected […]
Sandy and The Meta-storm
For all the pandemonium Sandy spewed on New York and Jersey, there was one meme that spread as far as the arms of the spiral itself, and it was this: […]
Instant Eradification
All of those unshowered, vagrant conspiracy theorists– the 99 percent who claimed the system was intrinsically stacked against them, the ones the main stream and liberal media pigeon holed– were […]
Tellin’ It Like It Should Be
Discerning what’s real and what’s not in our increasingly byte-sized reality is becoming a savagely challenging task. Add a home address in Hollywood, CA. and it can become downright surrealistic. […]
Oh Beautiful, For Perspicacious Skies
What shall we celebrate this 4th of July this year? For many in this great republic America, it’s the all too traditional answer: freedom from Canada, after a protracted and […]
Dining With Frankenstein
It’s like a Kafka story, really, but directed for our present day reality by the Wachkowski brothers of The Matrix fame. The scale of the conspiracy is that big. Except […]
2012, We Hardly Knew Ya…
So as it turns out, Michael Stipe had it more right than the Mayan calendar. Though rumors have been spreading about the prophesy of apocalypse due for release on December, […]
Choosing A Financial Occupation
It’s a strange thing tripping through lower Manhattan these days. A few blocks beneath the rebuilding of One World Trade’s Freedom Tower, a project remarkably far along considering the glacial […]
The Benefits of F%#&ing Off
“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to […]
Hurricane of Hype: What does not kill us, makes us softer!
So all the fuss over Irene being a totally devastating experience ended up like most nights with overhyped women… A blue-balled dry humping. Granted, there was serious flooding, but hardly […]
Profits Before Life: Good Thinking!
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The Hubris of the Penis
I am powerful. This is my penis. I am wealthy. Here is my wang, surrounded by gold and diamonds. I am way too old to still be considered attractive. This […]
Excito-toxicity: The Fatal Flaw of Mental Viagra
There’s one great myth regarding neuroscience that has been widely disseminated over the years: we only utilize about 10% of our brainpower. This may be true for those propagating this […]