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Twitter Links The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician
In June 2000, the philosopher Dean Zimmerman moved from the University of Notre Dame to Syracuse University with his wife and three kids, only…

February 22 2012, 5:21pm | Comments
Twitter Links How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
Slowpoke: How to be a faster writer (or 'how to write faster') - http://t.co/MCpEcFZ #science #writing #x #slate

August 12 2011, 9:11am | Comments
Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Link This will be the Century of Disasters
A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be…

May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments
Link The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Link The decline of the serial killer
The number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold…

January 6 2011, 8:55pm | Comments
Link The most isolated man on the planet
He's an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he's the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for…

August 30 2010, 8:05am | Comments
Link The rise of the new agnostics
Let's get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition…

July 30 2010, 4:38am | Comments
Link Why e-books will never replace real books
Because we perceive print and electronic media differently. Because Marshall McLuhan was right about some things. In case you don't recall one of the more influential thinkers of the late…

June 29 2010, 8:21am | Comments
Link Ten movies that never should have been made—and…
Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds,…

June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Link How Slate Edited History
To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment…

May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments
Link Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger
Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover,…

October 30 2009, 6:20pm | Comments

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