Film Review: Mother: Caring for 7 Billion

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion is a clear-eyed documentary on the often controversial topic of the long-term effects of human population growth on humanity’s ability to sustain itself in the face of the finite natural... Read More
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

Readers of a certain age might remember the “phone phreaks” of the 1960s and ’70s who deviously manipulated telephone technology in order to make free long distance calls, disclose American Telephone and Telegraph secrets and,... Read More
Book Review: The End of Country

As rumor has it, Seamus McGraw’s rough draft of The End of Country ignited a bidding war among New York’s leading publishing houses. It doesn’t take more than the first few pages and an... Read More
Book Review: The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer

In The Believing Brain skeptic leader Michael Shermer gives a highly readable, well researched explanation as to why people are drawn to believe things that aren’t (and are) true. He draws on both neuroscience and... Read More
Sex, Mom & God How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics—and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway

Frank Schaeffer is an apostate, and apostates can be a lot of fun. Individuals who are raised in a restrictive religious environment and later decide to reject it usually have interesting tales to tell. Schaeffer... Read More
The Techno-Human Condition

Growing up I always considered the interaction of humanity and technology presented in the original Star Trek series as a fairly accurate representation of the way things would someday go. Technology would continue to cocoon... Read More
Film Review: X-Men First Class

X-Men: First Class addresses the question that has troubled humanity for decades: what if the tensest confrontation of the Cold War era was in fact a proxy battle between mutants? Maybe not, but this fifth... Read More