By Thoreau
Remember “an exceptionally simple theory of everything”? The proposal that had some nice symmetric diagrams that the press picked up on? It fit into a recently trendy mathematical topic, the picture was vaguely cool, and the guy behind it spent most of his time surfing and skiing. Great story.
Turns out his theory doesn’t work [...]
By Thoreau
Jim’s post about messages in Burn Notice got me thinking about messages in media more generally. People will often look at a book, a TV show, a movie, a song, or whatever, and complain that they find messages that are sexist, racist, politically correct, homophobic, pro-gay, liberal, conservative, pro-war, anti-war, pro-capitalist, Communist, anti-environmentalist, alarmist, [...]
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