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ON FEBRUARY 1, 2003, SPACE Shuttle Columbia came apart somewhere over Texas, reminding us that putting people into space is hard to do and very, very dangerous. Engineers determined a [...]

DEAR FREE SPEECH WARRIORS, Socrates had ideas--about life and government and religion--and he liked to express them to anyone willing to listen. Or who just happened to be standing nearby. [...]

I SPEND A LOT OF TIME PARSING THE LANGUAGE OF Silicon Valley, that heady mix of technobabble and pseudo-economics where many words are used to say very little. It's a [...]

TWO YEARS AGO, SOME FRIENDS AND I STARTED our own private chat room on a service called Slack to talk about baseball. We did it because our non-baseball-loving friends on [...]

ON THE MORNING OF THE U.S. election last November, I logged onto Twitter and spent several hours arguing about privilege--mostly white, but also male--with someone who believed the entire concept [...]

EARLIER THIS YEAR, FACEBOOK GOT IN TROUBLE for 'curating' trending news articles that seemed to betray an ideological bias--their editorial team was accused of pushing a left-wing agenda by people [...]

THE STORY OF DIGITAL PIRACY is well-documented--the entertainment industry has been fighting file sharing networks since Napster showed up in 1999. But people just want to watch the things they [...]

FANS OF UBER might describe it as a company that uses technology to conveniently bridge supply and demand. It helps people earn a few extra bucks by letting them offer [...]

NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO, I decided to switch most of my media consumption to digital. Books, newspapers, magazines, music, movies--I abandoned buying new physical items and instead used my iPad [...]

THERE ARE OBJECTIVE TRUTHS in the universe, but they are few and far between. For everything else, we have Wikipedia. [1] Wikipedia has become the de facto source for information. [...]

A FEW MONTHS AGO, Facebook got into trouble for experimenting with some of its users. In the name of 'science,' it decided to start tweaking people's newsfeeds with an excess [...]

WHEN FORMER PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER VIC TOEWS stood in the House of Commons and proclaimed that anyone who didn't support the government's new Lawful Access legislation was standing with the [...]

LATE LAST YEAR, Netflix issued a press release that proudly declared binge watching as the new normal when it comes to consuming TV. It was a pretty standard release for [...]

TECHNOLOGY NOW ALLOWS ENDLESS IMAGE REPRODUCTION AND SAVVY AMATEUR EDITING. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR ART? IN 1987, JOHN KNOLL WAS SITTING ON A BEACH in Bora Bora with his [...]

WHEN THE FUTURE CAME, we were promised there would he flying cars. We were promised there would be moon bases. We were promised world peace and cold fusion and robot [...]

THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk on educational reform, I found myself nodding along vigorously. Yes! Schools do kill creativity! The system is broken! My kids [...]

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A COLLECTOR. Records, tapes, CDs, DVDs, books, my house is filled with them. I'm basically a Neil Young box set away from hoarder status. I used to [...]

Reviews are offered for several baseball stadiums including Seaman Stadium in Okotoks, Alberta, AT&T Park in San Francisco, California and Spring Training Park in Florida.