Eric Molinsky appears in the following:
The Posthuman Future
Friday, August 31, 2012
Everything we’re able to do today to enhance humans — from genetic engineering to artificial limbs — simply improves on the base model we were born with. But for some, that doesn’t ...
Neil Harbisson, Cyborg
Friday, August 31, 2012
Neil Harbisson is a painter, a musician, and a cyborg. Born with a rare form of colorblindness, Harbisson can only see the world in grays. In 2004, he collaborated with a scientis...
Object Breast Cancer
Friday, August 03, 2012
The pink ribbon has been an incredibly successful piece of marketing for breast cancer research. For cancer survivor Leonor Caraballo, though, it's supremely annoying. Caraballo is ...
A Golden Age for Women in Hollywood?
Friday, July 13, 2012
Hollywood still hasn't reached a tipping point for women filmmakers. But when it comes to breakthroughs among independent films, a shift seems to be happening.
Finding the Next Fifty Shades of Grey
Friday, June 08, 2012
Sellers and publishers of books from all over the world convened in New York this week for their annual convention, Book Expo America. Conference discussions focused on e-books, soci...
Videogames Go Indie
Friday, June 01, 2012
Just like with movies, videogames come in different sizes: the blockbusters with massive marketing campaigns, and the quirkier small releases that get known by word of mouth. "A lot...
Playing Doctor
Friday, May 18, 2012
Television drama has created the impression of an ideal world where decisions in hospitals are made quickly and cost is never an issue. It directly affects our expectations for trea...
Snapped: A Soldier's Story
Friday, March 23, 2012
A murderous rampage in Afghanistan earlier this month left 16 civilians, nine of them children, dead. The stereotype of the combat veteran who snaps in an act of crazed violence has...
Voting With Your Remote Control
Friday, March 09, 2012
We’ve always heard the television brought Americans together. Now a lot of what’s on just makes us mad at each other. Sociologist Max Kilger says you can tell a person’s politics by ...
Aha Moment: Gravity's Rainbow
Friday, February 24, 2012
Gerald Joyce is a professor of biochemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. In the 1970s, he was studying biochemistry at The University of Chicago, when he...
Ghostwriters
Friday, January 13, 2012
The best-seller list is dominated by memoirs and self-help books written by celebrities and politicians. Or “written” by celebrities and politicians. “On the non-fiction best-seller...
The Posthuman Future
Friday, November 04, 2011
Everything we’re able to do today to enhance humans — from genetic engineering to artificial limbs — simply improves on the base model we were born with. But for some people, that d...
Neil Harbisson, Cyborg
Friday, November 04, 2011
Neil Harbisson is a painter, a musician, and a cyborg. Born with a rare form of colorblindness, Harbisson can only see the world in grays. In 2004, he collaborated with a scientis...
True Vampires of New Haven
Friday, October 28, 2011
It’s great to be a vampire, right? Shows like True Blood and Vampire Diaries make them so glamorous. And consider the buzz around the last Twilight movie, which comes out next month. ...
Steve Jobs, Forever Young
Friday, October 28, 2011
Every time a new Apple product is rumored, a fraction of the country goes into a frenzy. Every bit of new information is pored over by millions of Apple cultists. A new release i...
Novelist Téa Obreht
Friday, October 21, 2011
Téa Obreht is 26-years old, and she’s already received wide acclaim for her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife. Last summer, she won the Orange Prize awarded to the best English-language b...
Amazon Moves Into Publishing
Friday, October 21, 2011
Last week Amazon had its second Campfire conference, bringing a group of writers together for an under-the-radar gathering in Santa Fe, NM. Kurt Andersen attended last year, and he felt the company was trying to soften up the literary establishment as it moves toward publishing. In recent months ...
Abstract Expressions of Willem de Kooning
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
If you live in New York or can make it there by January, the season's must-see painting exhibition is the new Willem de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which spans the artist’s long and productive career. We see his early days ...
I Spy
Friday, October 07, 2011
There are so many surveillance cameras installed in public spaces (malls, gas stations, ATMs) that you can be photographed hundreds of times in a day. The top–selling iPhone app iSp...
Bring Back Wonder Woman
Thursday, September 29, 2011
In September, DC Comics rebooted all of its main story lines, wiping the slate clean for the best-known superhero titles. Each starts over at issue #1. Fans were puzzled as Wonder...
