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October 2014

October 08, 2014
I am told that I am poor at being “in the moment,” and I confess...
October 06, 2014
Ross Andersen’s interview with Elon Musk at Aeon, on Musk’s ambitions for Mars colonization, is...
October 05, 2014
Nicholas Carr is a thinker I struggle with. (I mean, I struggle with his thoughts...
October 02, 2014
The idea for this episode was to talk about our respective obsessions over our tech...

September 2014

September 29, 2014
A college girlfriend of mine used to pride herself on being kind of pro-death. She...
September 26, 2014
Did you already know about this? You probably already know about this. Look, I had...
September 24, 2014
Your browser does not support the audio element. You are what you tweet? Do your...
September 23, 2014
I'm doing some light Twitter culling tonight, as the relentlessness that is the Torrent of...
September 23, 2014
This is just a quick post to let you know that the iMortal Show, which...
September 22, 2014
If you follow technology news at all, you’re probably tired of hearing variations on the word...
September 20, 2014
Physicist Lawrence Krauss was recently the guest on Triangulation, the interview program on the TWiT...
September 19, 2014
I’m proud to present the first episode of my new podcast, the iMortal Show. Like...
September 18, 2014
  Last week I wrote about the recent spate of predictions about the coming demise...
September 15, 2014
Mommy and daddy are fighting, and they’re ruining Christmas. This is pretty much how I...
September 13, 2014
There was a lot of talk about Steve Jobs and the shadow he casts over...
September 12, 2014
I am skeptical of the Apple Watch, in a way I haven’t been of an...
September 11, 2014
When I first became an Apple fan about a decade ago, it took an inordinate...
September 10, 2014
What would iMortal be if it didn’t feature a discussion about the latest Apple product...
September 08, 2014
Smooth McGroove, he who produces amazing a cappella renditions of music from video games, has...
September 08, 2014
The holiest day of the year is tomorrow, September 9, as Apple unveils whatever heavenly...
September 07, 2014
Mark Hill, browsing for oddities in Amsterdam (what a life), discovers a most prescient artifact...
September 07, 2014
This is entirely predictable, and disappointing. Because of a couple of recent incidents in which...
September 06, 2014
All of this leads me to think that e-readers are not doomed, but that they’re...
September 05, 2014
The thing that's been giving the online world a collective ulcer is the idea that Twitter...
September 05, 2014
Amid the discussions of the potential for contact with extra-terrestrial civilizations, there’s one big buzzkill...
September 04, 2014
In this video from Nature, we are introduced to Laniakea, the incomprehensibly vast supercluster of...
September 01, 2014
I took a vacation from work last week, but I’m not good at vacations. One...

August 2014

August 30, 2014
A recent study from Pew that’s getting a lot of attention suggests that social media use...
August 27, 2014
Note: Comments are disabled on this post because life is too short for what I'll...
August 27, 2014
Every human being alive today, provided they have access to even the most rudimentary computing...
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