A dating app that lets you swipe up to see their shoes. I'll call it "SoleMate."

What's not on this list? The assassination of a state legislator and her husband by a MAGA goon.  It was just 10 days ago that Melissa A...

The scientific conference was defining — and, as befitted the times, exclusively male. The secretary cleared his throat and spoke. “So, when...

Mission Impossible Mission Improbable Mission Not a Sure Thing Mission We've Got This. Maybe Mission Oops! Mission We Really Should Have...

Last week Trump sent troops into California. This week he drops bombs in the Middle East. To be a Trump supporter is to essentially say that...

This contrast between college-educated and non-college educated women is stark and oddly fascinating.  Four forces at play here. 1. Women wi...

(loosely adapted from various parts of Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove) We are not in love with the person themselves, but with the i...

Xenophobia is fear or hostility toward people from other cultures or nations. Racism is fear or hostility toward people based on visible gen...

Those people angry about vaccines and masks? Imagine how furious they will be when driving is illegal.

The first protest march probably involved some poor soldier in ill-fitting boots. The American revolutionaries didn’t have enough money for...

Here are 2 of the big reasons that Trump is going so hard after California. His Secretary of Homeland Security announced, “We are staying he...

A reminder of what Trump is doing. He's sending troops into American cities to provoke unrest and protests so that he can cosplay a revo...

One of the more curious concepts to emerge from the world of AI is the idea of artificial superintelligence (ASI): a system capable of gener...

In an information economy, the limit is attention. If Trump and Musk can capture the attention of the pundits on their Friday wrap up of the...

Trump and Musk owe their success to a few things: 1. the ability to fascinate audiences in this information age in which information is unli...

Estimates are that Russia has hit 1 million casualties in its Ukrainian war (about 100,000 to 150,000 of those are deaths). This is one of t...

Yesterday Ukraine made a massive drone attack on Russian bombers deep in Russia.Ian Bremmer claims that the drones used to attack cost about...

The virtual world brought with it millions of parallel experiences. It didn’t just expand our access to information - it partitioned our liv...

One of the ways a library was more honest than the internet is that it showed you the truth up front: rows and rows of shelves , a vast spra...

The information economy is about getting attention and that is mostly about theater. The Greeks invented democracy and theater about 2,500 ...