@RyanNewYork
He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.
He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.
Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.
This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.
Sunday Sermon: Steven Pinker on ‘The Better Angels Of Our Nature,’ and living in the most peaceful age ever.
“For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.” - Former Anti-GMO Activist Mark Lynas
Had fun on Al Jazeera yesterday talking with Nassim Nicholas Taleb about his new book Antifragile. Our exchange on social media is at 14:30 and he accuses me of sophistry at 33:30. But the entire thing is worth watching because his ideas are exciting and I’m a big fan. Watch here.
Great conversation between Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, from May at Oxford University. Most interesting are the first thirty minutes, that focus on cultural evolution and meme theory.
Don’t grow up and become scientists. You’ll probably get shot.
Carl Sagan + Lando Calrissian = Neil Degrasse Tyson
Stolen from my cousin Brendan, who is currently getting his PHD in Condensed Matter Physics.
