Vinnie Rotondaro
Make It Rain on the South Sound
For the past six months I’ve been playing in an amazing studio space in Gowanus, Brooklyn called the South Sound. In addition to offering up 13 practice rooms, the space housed two meticulously built recording studios. Unfortunately, Sandy wiped it off...
John Martin Fischer Is Going to Solve the Afterlife
In July, a philosopher named John Martin Fischer was awarded a five million dollar grant to oversee a philosophical, theological, and scientific study on the question of immortality. We called him up to talk about his project, some spectral...
Sandusky Will Die in Prison, and We Talked to a Pedophilia Expert
A judge in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania sentenced Jerry Sandusky to 30 to 60 years behind bars today. We spoke to Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University who believes pedophilia is a sexual orientation, similar to homosexuality or...
The Intuitionist: A Citrusy Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
"I’m trying to help people cross morally charged fault lines, but my book has something in it to offend everyone."
Native Americans Have Front-Row Seats at the Global Warming Show
The animals they rely on for food are either dying or acting like psychopaths and their graveyards are getting swallowed by the ocean. This isn't good.
Biking Booth’s Escape Route
After slaying Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth spent 12 days on the lam in a strange and tragic odyssey. To ever truly understand him, I'd have to literally retrace his footsteps.
Keeping the Demons at Bay
Taking a look at the Recovery Movement through a chronic schizophrenic who whooped Superman's ass.
Beasts in Eastern Ohio
What it actually meant when those Amish roughnecks hacked off the beards of brethren.
There are Tits Behind That Curtain, I Know It
Back in 2002, a psychologist named Daryl Bem began conducting a series of tests. Bem was after the holy grail of cognitive strangeness--precognition, the psychic knowledge of future events.
Arborcide in Brooklyn
Somewhere along the line, Steve Maynard lost control. He used to live a normal life. He was a husband and a father employed as a construction worker in New Jersey. Then tragedy struck--schizophrenia zeroed in on his mind like a shot out of the sky, and...