Science classes in school – at least when I was growing up – did a lot more harm than good in terms of my scientific literacy and my eagerness to grow it. Laborious, beige textbooks full of graphs and math. Jaded teachers (most of ’em anyways – I did have one or two winners) with
This might be one of the most important books I’ve ever read. Turns out we (and I mean all of us) are wrong about just about everything. Especially matters of global scale. It’s in our nature. It’s in our culture. And it’s in our systems. To see things as they really are requires some learning
My long-time homies over at LW Mag made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: review the brand new Mortal Kombat 11 game, and they’d hook me up a free copy. Truth be told, I’d have happily reviewed it for free. Such is the level of my Mortal Kombat nerdery. This also means, though, that my
Ho. Lee. Shit. I loved this movie. Let’s just clarify that upfront. That said, it’s a manga adaptation, and it’s pretty damn over-the-top, so it’s never going to be everyone’s cup of tea. But it certainly was mine. A sci-fi/CGI/superhero/manga mashup unlike anything I have ever seen. A total mindtrip. Utterly gorgeous to look at.
It feels like there was a lot of hype around this one. According to some, this has something to do with a female protagonist, and something else about a “feminist agenda” in Hollywood, and blah, blah, blah. Yawn. Like Black Panther (which was just a very good movie), this was either going to be good
An essential account of humanity, our origins, and how all that we take for granted came to be the way that it is. Some non-fiction titles should be required reading. Whether that’s as part of some kind of educational curriculum, or simply as an element of a person’s life-journey towards becoming more informed about things
I recently finished (audio) “reading” Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Dorris Kearns Goodwin. Narrated by Richard Thomas. I originally bought this in paperback as a gift for Donovan Bryan, who used to teach us a lot of Lincoln’s philosophy when he was my ECD and I worked in his studio at
