Joe Beernink

Last week, after a long day of writing and reading, I settled in on the couch to veg. I didn’t really have anything I felt like watching on TV, and my...

Back in 1978, science historian James Burke put together one of the best documentaries ever made—Connections. Through a series of 10 episodes (later added to with Connections2 and Connections3, Burke traces...

This entry will probably be the most geeky blog entry you will ever see from me on this blog. I used to do stuff like this over on my technical blog,...

In a previous blog post, I wrote about how watching all the TED Talks on NetFlix changed what I thought were the most important issues we, as a global community, had...

Today, a simple, 5-word tweet wasted most of my afternoon. It was sent from my Twitter account, but I didn’t send it. Someone hacked my Twitter account, and that sent me...