
Help for the Gun Crazies
It happened again. We wrote about one massacre, oh, way…
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Tech Pounds on Our Humanity… If We Let It
In an essay I wrote six years ago(!), I highlighted…
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Our Web of Meaning Is Still Ahead of Us
On April 22, 1970, over 20 million Americans participated in…
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BC Park Grows, Everyone Wins
More than 100 people stepped up recently with donations totaling…
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Your 2020 Oscar Winner(s)
The 2020 Oscar nominees are going to be announced on…
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Get the Good News Where You Can
Good news can be hard to come by. Let’s take…
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Facebook’s Doomsday Fantasy
Facebook has never had a shortage of critics. Its faults…
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Gen Z Emergency – The Book Review
Dr. Reese Halter, a champion on behalf of nature, has…
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The Opportunity Remains
A twenty-five year fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I’ve…
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The Gas Bag that Ate Our Attention
Trump, the gaudy (fill in the blank*) marketer elected out…
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The Regurgitation Machine
To some, GPT-3 is a marvel. To others, it’s a…
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A Case for Empathy
I recently read an essay by Namwali Serpell, author of…
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Will Vigilance Matter?
I’m a little late to the hit sci-fi novel The…
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Tech Buys Into Tune Out
It’s the “attention economy” someone somewhere told us. Silicon Valley…
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2+2 Now = Everything
This is not about fake news. That’s a separate realm.…
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Free Solo is Genius on Film
Free Solo is the name of the National Geographic documentary…
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Love! Nature – the Book Review
I recently finished Love! Nature by conservation biologist Dr. Reese…
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That Didn’t Take Long
So, right after scientists got their hands on the gene…
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The Stupidest Thing Uttered by a Smart Man
I don’t know Jeff Bezos. Never met him. Nevertheless, not…
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Our Home and Native Land
I came across, I don’t remember how, an interesting interactive…
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This Is Why You Keep Practicing Piano!
I’ve loved The Doors so long it never occurred to…
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Our Lazy Relationship with Reality
This week Roy Scranton — combat veteran, author, and Notre…
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Death and Dying, Life and Living
I have no clue how typical my Twitter feed is.…
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Because We Can
If you think of technology as the materialized knowhow of…
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Last Second Shot
If you’re lucky enough to get out for a snorkel…
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Waiting for Go D’oh (to Return)
From our present perch a survey of the past might…
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Anyone Tired of This Yet?
Massacres in the U.S. are like the Bill Murray movie Groundhog…
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Unity or Conformity?
A snippet from Hans Eijkelboom’s book People of the Twenty-First Century gives…
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Did We Stop Dreaming Big in the 1970s?
An audiophile and a cinephile could surely make the case…
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A Wonderful Reminder from Fugazi
It doesn’t come close to being there. But it comes…
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You Elected Him, and Now You’re Surprised?
Only if you’ve never seen his highlight reel.. Here’s how…
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Repurposing Teachers
The idea that technology = progress continues to catch hold.…
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Google Teaches AI to Edit Images for Other AI to Enjoy
Another AI breakthrough from Google. According to The Next Web,…
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A Case of Mistaken Identity
There’s lots to be said about evolution, faith, and technology. This…
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Eyes, Not Webs, Connect Us
There are about 18 billion of them on Earth. Eyes,…
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