John Horgan

1 week ago | smdailyjournal.com | John Horgan

We have seen the apocalypse and we are perplexed. We are frankly boggled. We have encountered and, yes, even experienced with some admitted trepidation a digital toilet. The device has actually been around for awhile. It’s really not all that new. Your correspondent is simply catching up. Again. The so-called smart toilet is one more unnerving step into a new, robotic world. The transformative device can serve as both a bidet and a regular, down-home waste receptacle.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | John Horgan

Enough done, a lot more to do if realistic ambitions of lifting silverware are to be realised over the coming weeks where the Cork hurlers are concerned. They got the job done at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Sunday against a Waterford team that contributed enough to ensure that coming down the home stretch the contest was certainly not a done deal.

1 week ago | johnhorgan.org | John Horgan

The sex makes some readers squirm. A Pulitzer committee awarded Gravity’s Rainbow the fiction prize in 1974, but Pulitzer’s overseers rescinded the prize, declaring the novel “obscene.”Pynchon renders, with fetishistic glee, sadomasochism, coprophilia, bestiality, pedophilia (Slothrup and a Shirley Temple-ish preteen). In one microcosmic scene, lads and lassies on the good ship Anubis, named after the jackal-headed Egyptian death god, come together in a daisy chain of polymorphous kink.

2 weeks ago | echolive.ie | John Horgan

So it's all come down to this, 70 minutes of hurling at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh next Sunday. Simply put, it's become a do-or-die situation for Cork and Waterford, the winner taking it all, their summer extended. Where the loser is concerned, we won't see them in inter-county action again until next February. Cork are in a slightly more advantageous position insofar as a draw would suffice to get them through into the All-Ireland series.

2 weeks ago | johnhorgan.org | John Horgan

HOBOKEN, MAY 22, 2015. -- I mean that headline literally, not snarkily. Christof Koch, the world’s leading consciousness researcher, has been experimenting with psychedelics, and in one trip he lost his mind, that is, his sense of himself as distinct from the rest of the universe. This month I zoom-talked to Koch, whose career I’ve tracked for decades, about his trips and what they mean. Below are edited excerpts from our conversation. Click this link to see the whole thing. – John Horgan.