Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Thursday, May 18, 2023

When Do Conspiracy Theorists Make Sense?

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Cory Doctorow's column in the May issue of LOCUS discusses what we'd probably think of as paranoid conspiracy theorists, vehemently ...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

The Crisis and the Swerve

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Cory Doctorow's column in this month's LOCUS, whether you fully agree with his view of the global situation or not, displays an impr...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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The October 2021 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features a pair of lead articles about "green" power for aircraft and cars, mainly e...
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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Catastrophes and Fiction Writing

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The annual ChessieCon was held virtually this past weekend. One session explored how catastrophic events influence literature. The panelists...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

The Tyranny of Now

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The November/December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article by psychologist Stuart Vyse titled "COVID-19 and the Tyranny of N...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

AI and Human Workers

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS essay explains why he's an "AI skeptic": Full Employment He believes it highly unlikely t...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

SF Seasons

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Happy New Year! The days begin to lengthen, even if imperceptibly at first, but nevertheless I have to brace myself for over two months mor...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pre-Human Civilizations?

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Could some other species have built a civilization on Earth long before we evolved? Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute ...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Day The Earth Stood Still (yesterday, on TV, at 8pm)

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I missed the first eleven minutes of this remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still", because I was watching an absolutely gripping...
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