How Scientific Racism at the Chicago's World’s Fair Shaped ‘Bioshock Infinite’
Racist attitudes at the world's fair events—channeled by Bioshock—both reflected and reinforced the attitude of a United States that had empire-building ambitions abroad.
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Determinism and Its Enemies Are Still Waging War over the Soul of Science
Academics are fighting a battle over determinism that goes back to Darwin's bastardizers, the eugenicists.
SpaceX Delayed Again, Possible Failure-Redeeming Do-Over Tomorrow
As you might have heard, SpaceX, a commercial space outfit by Elon Mnsk, (that dude that founded "PayPal":https://www.paypal.com/ and "Tesla Motors":http://www.teslamotors.com/), had to abort their ignition sequences just a half-second before lift of…
Videos: Bad Lip Reading Is Part Dada, Part Mama
An amusing video editing gig b-side and some YouTube success has led to a new, very timely kind of political cartoon, one that makes some sense out of the babel of the political carnival by giving politicians words that aren't exactly theirs. That's
