Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Past Is a Foreign Country

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According to a quote in THE GO-BETWEEN, a 1953 novel by British author L. P. Hartley (whom I confess I hadn't heard of otherwise), “The ...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Changing the Past

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I've recently finished the latest book by S. M. Stirling (best known for alternate history SF), a time-travel adventure, TO TURN THE TID...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Creative Fakelore for Fun and Enlightenment

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The January-February 2022 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article by statistical ecologist Charles G. M. Paxton, narrating his exper...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration Part 13 - Historical Verisimilude

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Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration  Part 13 Historical  Verisimilitude by Jacqueline Lichtenberg  Previous parts in...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Beliefs, Facts, and Action

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Sometimes it doesn't matter whether one has accurate beliefs about facts as long as one's beliefs have a correct or useful effect in...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Cosmic Times and Distances

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This video compresses the total history of the universe and Earth into a single monologue of less than twenty minutes: History of the Ent...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

YA Genre Fiction

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Michael Cart, author of YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: FROM ROMANCE TO REALISM, had an article on this past Sunday's editorial page of the Balt...
Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 18, Creating A Galactic History

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Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 18 Creating A Galactic History by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in the Theme-Worldb...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Depiction Part 21 - Depicting Alien History

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Depiction Part 21 Depicting Alien History by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous entries in the Depiction Series can be found listed here: h...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

"Tactical Laxatives"

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Karl Marx wrote, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Therefore, a science fiction writer, or a humorist...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Ireland Tour, June 2016

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Last week we returned from a 10-day package tour of Ireland with Belfast-born folk singer Seamus Kennedy. Remarkably, through our entire tri...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

The Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

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A brief historical survey of automata: Frolicsome Engines Machines that imitate voluntary movements, operated by hydraulics, go back at ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Kudos, history and ethics

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Margaret L Carter's blog got me thinking... How different would history be --or would it?-- if kudos for some discovery or victory went ...
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