Global Wahrman

When a friend made a proposal to try to manage the disaster that is unemployment in visual effects and computer animation in this country...

The Palm is a famous “steak and lobster” place on Santa Monica Blvd which is known for many things, including the illustrations and caric...

Spoilers are in orange to make them difficult to read.    But if you are one of those who like to know NOTHING about a work, then stop ...

In a new study published in PLOS ONE, evidence is presented that a person who deceives themselves as to their talent and knowledge, and t...

As readers of this blog know, I am a student of the affairs of the intelligence community, in particular that part of the community that ...

What should we think of excellent visual effects or other exploits of difficult technical filmmaking in the service of a bad movie? Sho...

As many of you know, TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has been receiving a very hard time because of events at Fukushima.   Ok, s...

This essay is an indirect meditation on the very broad questions of what it is that makes a place desirable, or entertaining or pleasant....

Education for young people is an area that most agree should be improved but there is no consensus as to what should be done to improve i...

Over the years I have gone back and forth on the issue of whether there are “rules” that apply to all of us or not. Or are there people ...