The androids' ultimate undoing is their inability to comprehend the nuances of human desire and the unpredictability of human happiness.
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Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Catspaw
All of us - or, 90% of us, at any rate - are catspaws to some extent.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Doomsday Machine
Time and space take little notice of our affairs.
The Venerable Monument: Building Notre Dame Part 2
Welcome back to the Creative Life Adventure. Last week I wrote about my purchase of CubicFun’s Notre Dame of Paris 3D puzzle. It was a fun pandemic project. Completing the model required patience, but it wasn’t especially difficult. The benefit was an opportunity to work with my hands in a way that engaged my mind,…
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Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Apple
Another trait capitalism shares with organized religion is a relentless need to discredit all dissent...
A Majestic and Sublime Edifice: Building Notre Dame Part 1
Many of us have filled some of our isolation time by taking on additional creative projects or learning new skills.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Mirror, Mirror
As preposterous as the mirror universe might seem, societies all too easily normalize cruelty that would have been unimaginable only a short time before.
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: The Changeling
Our actions will come back to us, sometimes sooner than we expect (or much later, where humpback whales are concerned).
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Who Mourns for Adonais?
"Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?"
Boldly Rewatching the Voyages: Amok Time
This conflict between short-term gain and long-term prosperity was a suitable theme for a 1960s America in the midst of figuring out what it wanted to be.
