Category: ideas

While on a garden tour it occurred to me that gardens have four components: sight, smell, temperature and time. Time, because as living organisms, they look, sm...

Incisive letter from a reader of Talking Points Memo.

Concession stand sales spike with screenings of Pineapple Express.

From a recent post on Slashdot: …”Batman can’t really afford to lose. Losing means death — or at least not being able to be Batman anymore....

from Wired: For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn’t pretend to know anything about the ...

What happened next in the life of a small-time revolutionary after he was given $25 million and was repatriated to the U.S. with a new identity, might make for ...

More on the previous: Scientists say conservation efforts that reduce conflicts between humans and animals could play a key role in limiting future outbreaks.

While looking at Taryn Simon’s photographs of “the hidden and unfamiliar,” I read: In the United States, all living white tigers are the resul...

Mass rituals have always lived beside – if not in a healthy opposition to – idol worship. In the communal rite, everyone participates and is transported. The eg...

I stupidly watched a Soviet science-fiction movie from the mid 80s this morning. We don’t get to see very many in-depth expressions of such a vastly diffe...

Matthew Yglesias: Trying to do a piece of extended drama that embodied the values of pragmatic progressive reformism would be impossible. The results, if seriou...