The Truth Shall Make You Nicotine Free

“FORGET ALL THE HEALTH RISKS. If The Beautiful People Do It, It Must Be Okay!” That’s the “warning” on a print ad depicting several young folk sitting around tables in a nightclub. These nice-looking people seem happy, even as they...

Tune In to TV-Turnoff Network

“The average American spends four hours a day watching television. That adds up to more than one day every week, two months every year, and nine solid years by age 65, that Americans spend glued to the tube,” according to TV-Turnoff Network. TV-Turnoff...

Dying Live: An Experiment

“See a Person Dying Live On Your Computer,” the Web promotion read. An estimated 20,000 people logged onto the Web site to see a man dying–live, as advertised–on March 27. What viewers saw was an image of magician Jim Callahan simply sitting...

King: Commercializing or Communicating?

Martin Luther King Jr. is center stage again, this time in a commercial for a communications network company. Alcatel Americas paid the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change an undisclosed sum for the rights to use King’s “I Have a...

Welcome to the Raelian Revolution

Religious folk of nearly every stripe have something to say about cloning. The Raelian Movement is no exception. Founded by a Frenchman named Claude Vorilhon, the Raelian Movement is “the world’s largest UFO related, non-profit organisation,”...