Cyberspace is no longer a place we go to through our desktop or laptop screens, but an overlay on top of our physical reality. In fact, the most fertile ground for experimentation is where the real and the virtual...
I have an insatiable appetite for the strange, hidden, and wondrous stories of our world. I became a journalist because I wanted to follow my curiosity wherever it took me. It's no surprise then that my favorite films to view...
When I was in college, it often seemed that the most interesting courses were the ones that I couldn't take. History of Dada and Surrealism. Intro to Filmmaking. Archaeoastronomy. Jungian Archetypes and Literature. Physics for Presidents. Drugs and Behavior. Anatomical Illustration....
In my last post about the allure of retro audio gear, I quoted yard sale craphound Mister Jalopy who once said that he doesn't like a vintage item just because it's old, he likes it because it's better. Personally, I...
I have hundreds of gigabytes of digital music. Yet I listen to less than one percent of it. Why? Because it's entirely overwhelming. I have so much, and it's so intangible, that I may as well not even have...
When I was a kid and our family's TV went on the fritz, my big brother would open the back with a screwdriver, glance at the circuit diagram printed inside, and pull a tube out. We'd go to the...
Are you experienced? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Can we talk? Who is in charge here? These are just some of the myriad questions that may be posed to you as you walk through the...
In 1900, the National Audubon Society invited amateur birdwatchers to count the birds they saw on Christmas. Still an annual event, the Christmas Bird Count, a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, is probably the longest-running large-scale citizen...
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