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You Mean Yet!: TOS #21: “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”

Posted on Wednesday 28 June 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The Enterprise accidentally travels back in time to Earth in the 1960s, where it’s seen as a UFO, and then struggles to erase records of its visit and to return to its own time. This is a fun episode that … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Conservatives and the Just World Fallacy

Posted on Friday 5 May 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Among the dozens of articles in mainstream and progressive media (not to mention outraged posts by many of my Fb friends) about the insidious effects of the just-passed ‘Trumpcare’ law by the House of Representatives, here’s one that explores how … Continue reading →

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I Could Have Called You Friend: TOS “Balance of Terror”

Posted on Monday 1 May 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The Enterprise encounters an ancient unseen adversary, the Romulans, who emerge from their Neutral Zone confinement to test Earth’s defenses.   This is a striking episode, one of the best, but also problematic in its astronomical illiteracy, in a way … Continue reading →

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Harari on THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION

Posted on Sunday 23 April 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

In today’s NYT Book Review, Yuval Noah Harari reviews THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION: Why We Never Think Alone, by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach. The review’s opening echoes Harari’s own work, e.g. What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other … Continue reading →

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Both Proud of Our Ships: TOS “The Corbomite Maneuver”

Posted on Tuesday 11 April 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The Enterprise encounters an enormous alien vessel that blocks its path and threatens its destruction. Now watching the episodes in production order; this one is production order #2, after “Where No Man Has Gone Before”; this was the first episode … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Distrust of Science; Trump’s conviction; Global society; a Two State solution

Posted on Wednesday 8 March 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

This subject is everywhere — the rejection of reality by the current administration — and I don’t collect very many of these links, but here are a few more. Tom Nichols at Scientific American, via Salon: Don’t go with your … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Political bubbles; Group knowledge; Randall reviews Rovelli

Posted on Monday 6 March 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Interesting pieces from Sunday’s New York Times Front page article: How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View. About how to overcome the built-in biases in Facebook and other social media to feed you only what you want … Continue reading →

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Two Big Science Stories

Posted on Thursday 23 February 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Two big science stories this week. Highlighted in New York Times weekly Science section on Tuesday, this piece by Dennis Overbye: Cosmos Controversy: The Universe Is Expanding, but How Fast?. It’s about some discrepancies in data that should align and … Continue reading →

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Krugman and Republican Tax Policy

Posted on Thursday 23 February 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman is one of my go-to pundits, relentlessly pointing out the evidence of history as undermining conservative goals, even though his scope, politics focusing on economics issues, results in his rehashing certain themes over and over. Here’s one: On … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Science, Abortion, Trump v Reality

Posted on Friday 27 January 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a great statement by Neil deGrasse Tyson: What Science Is and How and Why It Works The scientific method can be summarized in one sentence, which is all about objectivity: “Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into … Continue reading →

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