Author: Adam Lee

I probably shouldn’t have said this in public, but now that the cat’s out of the bag, I might as well tell you all as well. It all started a few days ago with a question about what the median number of Twitter followers is among active accounts. It turns out to be surprisingly low…

Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, The Movie The question of why Atlas bombed at the box office is really two questions. One is why it didn’t get more attention from the conservatives who’d seem to be its natural audience; the other is why it didn’t attract more interest from moviegoers in general. Let’s start with the…

Last weekend I saw Particle Fever, a movie about the Large Hadron Collider and the scientists who built it in their quest to resolve one of the greatest outstanding mysteries in physics. It’s easily among the most enthralling science documentaries I’ve ever seen, so if you get the chance, see it! The LHC was built…

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 2, “Some of the Things That Molecules Do” If I had to pick one word to describe this episode, it’d be “overstuffed”. Granted, the series has a huge amount of territory to cover; and unlike the original Cosmos, which aired on PBS, this one is subject to the ever-growing commercial…

Just before the new Cosmos premiere last week, I noticed that “#LongIslandMedium” was trending on Twitter, a reference to a woman named Theresa Caputo. She’s just the latest in a long line of talking-to-the-dead hucksters who exploit the grief of the bereaved, using the same unsubtle cold-reading act that never fails to dazzle the gullible.…

Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, The Movie After that last year of plowing through Ayn Rand’s verbiage, it’s about time for a palate cleanser. And I have just the thing: the colossal cinematic wreck that is Atlas Shrugged: Part 1. Feast your eyes on the capitalist glory of the trailer: The film was released in 2011,…

Last month, American Atheists sought to rent a booth at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Surprisingly, CPAC accepted their money at first, only to change their mind at the last minute. That entirely foreseeable outcome would have been more than sufficient as free publicity, but American Atheists president Dave Silverman decided to attend as…

Last autumn, I published my first novel, DARK HEART, an epic fantasy in a world where mortals rebelled against the gods. Today I’m happy to announce that the sequel, BROKEN RING, is now out! If you liked the first book, I’m confident that this one is even better. Here’s the synopsis: One month out of…

While I was doing research for this week’s post on de-extinction, I came across an article by George Monbiot on the phenomenon of “accidental rewilding” that I thought was worth sharing. I loved the book The World Without Us, which describes how rapidly nature would move in and erase the artifacts of civilization if human…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter X While Dagny has been criscrossing the country seeking the inventor of the motor, she learns from Eddie Willers that the looters are once again making absurd demands, this time clamoring for new laws that would kill the John Galt Line and strangle the industry of Colorado: The Union of…