In August, 2001 I was blogging about…

3 years ago

Broken Links and Poor Information Architecture (and of course the link to that article had broken, and the site taken…

Tell-all crime reporting is a peculiarly American practice. Now U.S. news outlets are rethinking it

3 years ago

Journalists should balance the public's "right to know" with the public's "need to know," mindful of the potential harm caused…

Amanda Knox responds to high-profile movie profiting off of her name

3 years ago

American student Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted of the murder of her roommate. Eventually her conviction was overturned and she…

I studied philosophy and engineering at university: Here’s my verdict on ‘job relevant’ education

3 years ago

She double-majored in engineering and philosophy. Fifteen years later, which degree is more relevant to her success? She says that…

Am I being rude or is my autism not being understood and accommodated for?

3 years ago

A valuable thread that explains many of the differences that make autistic people seem "rude" to neurotypicals (who are more…

Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Elizabethan Theater

3 years ago

Somewhere during my education I picked upon the meme that "Shakespeare's contemporaries referred to 'hearing' a play, not 'seeing' a…

A Matter of Time (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 9) Smarmy Time Traveler Observes Crew

3 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG An eccentric time-traveler won't say why he's shown up to observe events on board the Enterprise-D, but he's…

As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem

3 years ago

When reality contradicts the truths that define group membership, the evangelical community circles the wagons and puts the power and…

Scammer tricks YouTuber who exposes scams to delete his anti-scammer channel

3 years ago

This one is hard to unpack, and painful to contemplate. The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel has been erased from…

The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’

3 years ago

It is 50 years since I first collected those caterpillars in the school playground, and every year that has passed…