1st Post Full + Small Images

There’s a scene in Wall-E, the Pixar movie, where a ship returning to Earth has to plow through a nearly impassible field of likely-defunct satellites in order to land. I...
I’m nervous. I don’t get nervous that often. It’s mostly an emotion that happens when I’m in a crowd, washing over me in ineffable waves. I don’t know what bad...
Just what is a genre? After discovering, once again, that online dictionaries are almost entirely useless for answering a question with any degree of subtlety, I found myself returning to...
Can democracies make the world a better place? The Founding Fathers seemed to think so. In fact, they may be some of the most optimistic, rational, idealists who ever lived....
Are you smarter than a 5th grader? I am not. I learned this shortly after the show first came out. The premise was intriguing: it’s a gameshow where the goal...
Welcome to the 21st Century. If you lived 100, or maybe even just 30, years ago, you would have likely thought that this century would be filled with flying cars,...
Influenza is a jerk. Its primary method of spreading is human-to-human, meaning the best way to protect against it would be to board ourselves up in our homes, which we...