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I’m an Apple fanboy. I grew up with a Mac and a PC in the house, I gamed on the PC, did everything else on the Mac (papers, movies, photoshop, web). I want an Apple tablet so badly I could cry. And I want it so I can read books and magazines again.
I live [...]
The tallest building, structure, office space, hotel, and residential space ever built is officially open to the public today.
R.U. Sirius’ best of 2009 list, I felt, was missing one critical piece: the Iranian Green Revolution. It isn’t over yet and it may not be a success in its current iteration, but remains one of the best proofs of the power of communication technology to undermine a brutal regime. The beauty of the [...]
In keeping with the theme of talking about my favorite TV shows under the pretense of some sort of analysis, I’d like to talk a little bit about Fringe. For starters, Fringe does three very important things.
It gives us a genuinely mad, morally gray scientist who works for the good guys. Who doesn’t [...]
I was debating which of the twenty sites that posted on the tool-using octopus to link to when I noticed Neatorama went the extra mile and made a Monty Python reference in their post. National Geographic’s article and video (embedded) provide wonderful illustration.
Fantastic line from the interview showing how much [...]
And the iPhone is from Venus:
In the Droid’s new ad, Motorola gives us an array of candy-colored, bling-enrusted mobile devices and smiling fashion dolls and asks, “Should a phone be pretty? Should it be a tiara wearing, digitally clueless beauty queen?” Hell to the no!
Instead, if should be “racehorse duct taped to a [...]
TED‘s website is one of those places I only visit when I have a free Sunday afternoon or a few hours before bed. I start with just one video and end up watching nine or ten. Considering I enjoy this as much as I enjoy this (what’s bizarre is the former [...]
I’m of the opinion that every major American holiday, if not just every holiday, is on some level a ritualistic celebration designed to disguise indulging in vice. Fourth of July is pride, Christmas avarice, Valentine’s Day is lust, and Thanksgiving is, of course, gluttony.
The counterpoint is that while enjoying these vices, we tend to [...]
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Pop Bioethics, written by Kyle Munkittrick, is an effort to study the ethics of the continuing evolution of the human species via the lens of pop culture and be somewhat entertaining in the process.
Kyle's writing can also be found at Discover's The Crux, Slate's Future Tense, and at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. For questions or comments: comments [at] popbioethics [dot] com
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