Abstruse Goose: Little Knowledge = Danger

Ok, so y’all know about how, in general relativity, gravity slows time.  Clocks closer to something massive and more strongly attracted to it run slower.  And clocks farther away and less attracted run faster.  I’d explain this to you in more detail but I’m busy.  Anyway, AG can use the different times on his different […]

I Regret the Error

Happy 2014, the year after The Year We Broke the Internet. Last week, in a gloomy essay in Esquire, Luke O’Neil wrote that publications old and new have abandoned basic reporting—and worse, their basic concern for the truth—for the sake of speed and splash. “Big Viral, a Lovecraftian nightmare … has tightened its thousand-tentacled grip on […]