Author: Adam Lee

My latest obsession is Primitive Technology, a video blog from remote northern Australia. The creator, who hasn’t identified himself by name, has an ambitious goal: to go out into the wilderness and recreate as much human technology as possible, starting from the Stone Age and working his way up. Working with nothing but his bare…

Those who don’t understand their own history are doomed to nominate Donald Trump.

The non-religious are now a plurality of American voters. What does this mean for the future?

For all their lip service to diversity and inclusion, the Democrats snubbed atheists at their convention and in their official party platform this election year. The convention was all God all the time, with not a word of acknowledgement for the increasingly important non-religious part of their voting base. Is there any hope for this…

• Yes, the Green Party nominee Jill Stein is an anti-vaxer. Since Stein is an actual doctor, this is especially inexcusable. Note that Hillary Clinton is the only remaining presidential candidate who’s pro-vaccine. • In very good news, a federal court strikes down North Carolina’s brazenly racist voter ID law. They didn’t even try to…

We’ve solved all the easy problems already. Now we need more people to help out with the big ones.

Why people are so eager to believe the worst.

Racism, scams, frauds, dalliances with tyrants, and more.

The difference between skeptics and denialists.

There’s so much darkness in the world lately, I feel like we could all use a break to talk about something light-hearted. So how about that new Ghostbusters movie? I saw it over the weekend, and the theater was packed. If the internet backdraft has hurt the box office at all, which I doubt, it…