Scott Eric Kaufman

Scott Eric Kaufman is an assistant editor at Salon. He wrote a dissertation about non-Darwinian evolutionary theory in American popular culture and taught at a university, but then thought better of it. He is also the proprietor of the AV Club's Internet Film School and a contributor at Lawyers, Guns & Money. Follow him at @scottekaufman or email him at skaufman@salon.com.

Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones
Monty Python founding member Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia Scott Eric Kaufman
On November 28th, Nike will take us "Back to the Future" with self-lacing shoes Scott Eric Kaufman
Rocket Launch
Europe has lift off: European stock markets defy expectations, skyrocket for second day running Scott Eric Kaufman
Teminator Genisys
Meet your "Doom": Carnegie Mellon researchers deliberately violate Asimov's First Law of robotics, teach robots to kill Scott Eric Kaufman
Earns Yahoo
Millions of emails hacked: Yahoo to reveal massive data breach as sale to Verizon approaches Scott Eric Kaufman
Space Ghost
Adult Swim streams "Space Ghost" episodes from 9 seasons for free Scott Eric Kaufman
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie
Brangelina split breaks the internet: "What's in the box?!? Divorce papers" Scott Eric Kaufman
Twitter users fire back at "The Wire" creator David Simon's "inappropriate racial vernacular" Scott Eric Kaufman
SpaceX Launch
Space oddity: Undeterred by Falcon 9 explosion, Elon Musk plans to travel "well beyond" Mars by 2018 Scott Eric Kaufman
Lyft founder claims that all its cars will be self-driving by 2021 Scott Eric Kaufman
Meet "Saturday Night Live"'s three new featured players Scott Eric Kaufman
MIT and Georgia Tech develop technology to read books without opening them Scott Eric Kaufman
Earns Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo "sandbagger"-in-chief in charge of phony account division received $124 million in exit pay Scott Eric Kaufman
Hewlett Packard
HP to buy Samsung's printer division for $1.05 billion Scott Eric Kaufman
New Virgin Galactic spaceship successfully passes its first test flight Scott Eric Kaufman