Month: June 2019
Entertainment Weekly is Going Monthly, and That’s a Shame
One thing the youth of today, and certainly the youth of the future, will never understand is how many random magazines used to end up in people’s homes. I don’t know much about the magazine industry, but the way ...
Which Avenger is Each 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate?
There are now 23 major candidates running for the Democratic nomination for president, and one or two more that seem likely to run or have expressed interest in doing so. That’s a lot of people to keep track of. Some ...
The R-Score: A Metric for Evaluating Restaurants
Baseball stars, politicians, cars, and even credit cards are associated with sophisticated mechanisms for grading and scoring that weigh the various components of their actions and abilities as well as their costs and benefits. These metrics offer an easy way ...
Vampire Weekend and Billie Eilish Are Welcome Outliers. Can They Become Revolutionaries Too?
(Photo on the left by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, Right by Ross Gillmore/WireImage) The other day, a coworker of mine posted this preview of Vampire Weekend’s new album Father of the Bride by Mikael Wood in a slack channel, and I gave ...