“Scientists,” who are always nameless in these kinds of reports, claim that they are now able to “hack” the brain with a $299 off-the-shelf mind-machine interface. Using an Emotiv interface, “researchers” (as they are also known) could read the P300 signal coming off the brain.  When showing the subjects images of banks, faces, and PIN […]

Behold the Israeli editions of Metropolitan, This Is Not a Game, and Implied Spaces. If reading right-to-left is your thing, check these out.  

Two veteran freedom fighters have begun a Kickstarter campaign to finance their trip to Syria, to participate in the rebellion against the government of Bashar al-Assad. Libyan Masood Bwisir and American journalist and filmmaker Matthew vanDyke participated in the Libyan rebellion, and vanDyke spend six months in one of Gaddafi’s jails before escaping. The money […]

(No, this isn’t a post about Paul Ryan’s views on family planning.  Or a review of Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS.  This is about art, dammit!) Last February, the Russian all-girl punk band Pussy Riot initiated a 30-second demonstration in a Moscow cathedral in which they called upon the Virgin to save Russia from Vladimir […]