Pages Tagged “Philosophy”
Reviews
- Calculating God
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
What if there is scientific evidence out there for a supreme being, but to find it you have to correlate knowledge from multiple inhabited worlds across the galaxy? - Flashforward (Novel)
A fascinating exploration of time, destiny and free will after everyone on Earth gets a glimpse of the same moment 20 years in the future. - Justice (ST:TNG, Season 1) ★☆☆☆☆ Some old TV shows are better than you remember. Planet of the Jogging Bimbos…isn’t.
- Parable of the Sower
★★★★★
Octavia Butler
Hard to put down. And hard to pick up again. It’s certainly not a fun book, but it’s extremely engaging, despite the bleakness of the slow-apocalypse setting and story. - Paradise The ST:DS9 episode “Paradise” tries to make a point about self-reliance without technology, but misses the mark by not actually showing any benefits.
- Quantum Night
★★★★☆
Robert J. Sawyer
Intriguing premise, well explored: Quantum entanglement, psychopaths, and mob behavior. Can we reboot humanity amid a rising tide of xenophobia?
Blog Posts
- A matter of perspective
XKCD’s Umwelt art project is the best use of browser-sniffing I’ve ever seen.
- Why?
Got a tech support question consisting of a single word: “Why?”
- Living in Harmony
On Highway 62, in Twentynine Palms, we saw this first coming from the other direction. On the other side it says, “Where if not now?” At first we thought they had just messed up the wording, but when we came back along the same road and saw “When if not here?” it all made sense.