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The Beatles left an indelible mark not only on music, but on the culture in which they created it. In a time of great and sudden change, they led a generation into new territory, redefining the social landscape as a place where men and women could try on new roles. They led this change through their music, their public personae, and - under scrutiny - their example. The Beatles Guide to Love & Sex examines all three - the songs, the parts they played in public, and the way they led their lives, for better or worse. John, Paul, George and Ringo began their journey as typical working-class ...

In the beginning, there was Surak – “The greatest of all who ever lived on our planet, Captain,” according to Spock, “The father of all we became.” In Star Trek lore, Surak was a Vulcan philosopher-scientist who created the philosophy of reason that ultimately set his people on a less violent and more serene path. It happened around Earth’s 4th century, or roughly 2,000 years before the latter Trek era. The thing is… Back on Earth, they’d already gotten there – a full 700 years earlier. It was more than 300 years BCE when a Greek philosopher named Zeno began to conceive a ...

When I was watching The West Wing during its original run, I was appreciative of how Aaron Sorkin and his team didn’t just serve up good drama, but built stories out of what was going on in the real world. And as time passed after the series ended, and I re-watched it over and over, I was struck by how prescient it turned out to be: many things that seemed pure fiction on the show ended up happening on the news, from the nuclear tensions of India/Pakistan and North Korea to government shutdowns to US senators holding up military promotions to get their own way. The first volume of this ...

Looking at cinema's present via its past. From the former editorial team of The Dissolve, The Next Picture Show examines how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Episodes take a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy, then compare and contrast that film with a modern successor. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, and Scott Tobias.

For seven glorious years, Aaron Sorkin's masterpiece The West Wing served up a vision of American democracy and governance that informed us, challenged us and inspired us. In this collection of more than 20 essays, all prompted by memorable moments in the series, Scott Robinson surveys the issues, crises, and core principles of greatest impact, where the preservation and full realization of the American Experiment are concerned. Sorkin's vision was idealistic, to be sure, and the years since have been in many ways discouraging; but the perpetual light of The West Wing can continue to ...

From HAL 9000 to Alien’s MUTHER to Trek’s Cmdr. Data, from Heinlein’s Mycroft Holmes to Asimov’s R. Daneel Olivaw to Ellison’s AM, I’ve always been deeply into AI, since my early teens (and before that, there was the Lost in Space Robot and the Batcomputer). When I started writing, I didn’t hesitate to introduce AI and robots into my own work – and beyond the writing, into my career as a technologist. Those two sides of my life intertwined relentlessly, each informing the other. This new collection is largely built on Silicon Sonatas, a broader compendium of my AI/robot ...

The first volume of this series presented the concept of the indigenous critique – the observations of Native Americans, emerging in their early encounters with European explorers and colonists. These observations, recorded and pondered deeply by their Western counterparts and thinkers in Europe, challenged a broad array of assumptions and notions embraced by Western society and culture – and proved so enlightening as to trigger the Enlightenment… upon which the new United States would be based. That earlier book sought to meaningfully summarize the Indigenous Critique, but only ...

This collection of Robinson's longer stories includes excursions across the stars, back through time, into the limits of AI, and inward to the edge of madness. Gathered herein... SKELETON 17 THE LOCAL GODS MEDALLION DELIVERY BOY SONG OF AVEYRON THE KEEPER OF THE CASTLE AT THE END OF TIME WHEN I WAKED, I CRIED TO DREAM AGAIN

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The first book in the series - "Red Brains, Blue Brains: The Psychology of MAGA" - covered authoritarianism generally, but its focus was more on the moment – the season of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, which still threatens to persist at this writing. This second book seeks to expand the discussion beyond Trump and MAGA, peering into the human past and the role of authoritarian thought and behavior within the human story. In addition, it will hopefully add to the body of research presented in the first book, with a hefty section devoted to studies that explicate aspects of ...

Chris and Scott present the Big Drive Home every weekday afternoon across Essex UK.

We first became acquainted with the power of Federation democracy in “Journey to Babel” in the original series, when Kirk’s Enterprise trucked more than 100 Federation delegates to a neutral planetoid to discuss and vote on the admission of Coridan to its ranks. We saw argument, contentiousness – and a serious, violent effort to disrupt the democratic process and usurp its outcome. That’s the nature of democracy. It’s messy, it’s uncomfortable – but it’s better than the alternatives, as Winston Churchill famously assured us. The idea of a self-governing society, where all ...

The Trail of Tears is a tragic chapter in American history - as is the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the many that preceded it. The legacy of the European invasion of North America is, at this point, exhaustively documented; the abuses and injustices unleashed by white men on the indigenous inhabitants are, at this point, well known. What is less well known is their actual legacy. Many, if not most, think of the Native American tribes as bands of savages – violent, brutal, immoral. But they are wrong to think so. In fact, the legacy of Native America lives in our deepest commitments as a ...

All my life, I’ve been tripping over jaw-dropping, fascinating ideas that few people have ever heard of. This started happening in my early 20s, when I learned of Douglas Hofstadter’s ‘strange loops’ in Gödel, Escher, Bach. It continued with Jorge Luis Borges’ Library of Babel, where all possible books reside. John Searle’s Chinese Room; the untold stories of Paleolithic humanity – the list has grown and grown over the years. In this collection of chapters from various books of mine, many disciplines are explored: science, math, history, neuroscience, sociology, linguistics ...