Category: General

Empathy Is Actually a Choice

I believe this, too. It’s something that can be practiced – or fall out of practice.

The real origin story behind how Rep. John Lewis became THE hit of Comic-Con

Rep. John Lewis cosplayed himself, since he was, in fact, a hero.

“Trump’s merely a sparkling symptom of a renewed national ridiculousness”

Welcome back, Mr. Breathed.

Signals that baffled astronomers for 17 years traced to observatory’s microwave oven

Science!

How Seattle’s economic boom is destroying the city

Treating housing as an asset class means that governments want to make it more expensive — if a government presided over a doubling in the price of food, it would be viewed as monstrous. If it doubles the price of housing, it it lionized for “increasing property values.”

This also appears to be happening in Portland.

A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving

A simple test from the New York Times that will teach you how science works (it’s probably not what you think).

Every Single Word, from Dylan Marron

Feature films edited down to just every line of dialogue spoken by a person of color. Black Swan is 24 seconds long. From <a href=”http://www.dylanmarron.com”>Dylan Marron</a>, whom you may know from the podcast Welcome To Night Vale.

New to B5? The Joy of Jumping In, by Erika Ensign

Ms. Ensign co-hosts a podcast about Babylon 5, the first serialized novel-for-TV that I was aware of. It seemed groundbreaking at the time, though now it’s a standard format that’s given us awesome entertainment like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

And this essay suggests that binge-watching-from-the-beginning shouldn’t be the default if you’re new to a serialized show.

So I tried to do a thing while visiting the OITNB set again today

Samantha Gardella took some cool pictures of the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center, better recognized by more folks as Litchfield Minimum Security Prison from Orange Is the New Black.

And the staff running the OITNB Twitter account gave her a SHOT.