Archive for June, 2010

Brock Enright and the Laws of Thermodynamics

Absolute zero is defined as the temperature at which thermodynamic systems cease molecular function as we know it—a state of matter that is virtually impossible to achieve in our universe. Scientists have never actually reached it, but as they’ve gotten close they’ve discovered that as temperatures approach absolute zero, matter takes on mindbending properties [...]

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Atlas Shrugged: Yer Doin It Wrong

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” –Ayn Rand
Perhaps you’ve heard the chatter, the tweets, the blogs, the blurbs. Ayn Rand is back, in a big way. Sales of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead soared after the election of Barack Obama, [...]

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Everything Is NOT Fine!!!

Along with his directorial debut, What Is It?, Crispin Hellion Glover is presenting It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! at the IFC Center in NYC. The second of the It Trilogy (perhaps to generate hype for the eagerly-anticipated It Is Mine), It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! is a heartwarming tale of a wheelchair-bound [...]

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