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Valkyries came...

Rosie wrote 13 hours ago: … into my head this evening as I was experimenting with watercolour paints. This is how they l … more →

Tags: Challenges, Inspiration, Personal Stuff, Backgrounds, CBH, Created by Hand, Sci-Fi, Valkyries, watercolour painting

The Books We Get For Christmas

Taylor Bright wrote 1 day ago: Okay, for some reason my family (four of us) wound up giving each other a bunch of books for Christm … more →

Tags: Books, Alice Munro, Anita Brookner, Charles Elliott, David Peace, Gary Dexter, Gordon S. Wood, Graham Greene, H. L. Mencken

Isaac Asimov on Knowledge and Wisdom

isisaurusrex wrote 2 days ago: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers w … more →

Tags: Quotes, knowledge, Wisdom

Favorite Quotes...

Javier Canales wrote 3 days ago: “Xevier!…molts petons…” – Andrea R “I’m not happy, unless I … more →

Tags: Life, Albert Einstein, Andrea R, Javier Canales, Javier's Blog, katy perry, novi, Quotes, robert southey

Psychohistory

pelicanclub wrote 5 days ago: Predicting the future has been something humankind has always hankered after. However it has always … more →

Tags: News, Science, .:*Conflict*:., prediction, Terrorism

I'm Just a Fringe Trekkie7 comments

Sherry wrote 6 days ago: I adored and admired Carl Sagan and read all his books with great enjoyment. I learned a lot, but on … more →

Tags: Astronomy, Science, Entertainment, Evolution & Science, human biology, Science Fiction, astronomy, Carl Sagan, Evolution, Exploration

'Avatar' and the War of Genres16 comments

gerrycanavan wrote 1 week ago: (now crossposted at The Valve) We saw Avatar last night and I thought at first I didn’t have a … more →

Tags: Look at what I found on the Internet, Atheism, Avatar, carl freedman, Darko Suvin, Ecology, Endor Holocaust, Fantasy, Genre

Links, Pictures, and Videos to Brighten your Monday

njsul wrote 1 week ago: Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel (1903) – An interesting essay on the effects a city … more →

Tags: Links, Bike, Dexter, guinea pig costume, Internships, Metropolis, the last question

Librarians are Indispensable - Especially After the Apocalypse!

Rad Librarian wrote 1 week ago: Movie director Shane Ackerman along with the screenwriters Pamela Pettler and Ben Gluck have, in the … more →

Tags: Librarian characters in books, Librarian characters in movies, Librarian stereotypes, librarians, Technology in the Library, 9, apocalypse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dune

The Pursuit of Intelligent Machines - Part 3: Machines that Give Birth to Other Machines

lenrosen4 wrote 1 week ago: In the Terminator movies machine intelligence is pitted against humanity. Cyborgs venture into the p … more →

Tags: 21st century technology, Antikythera Mechanism, Artificial Intelligence, John von Neumann, machine intelligence, NASA, Ramon Lull, self replicating machines

Always Already Monday1 comment

gerrycanavan wrote 3 weeks ago: * Isaac Asimov’s “The Relativity of Wrong” uses an “English Lit major” … more →

Tags: Look at what I found on the Internet, Politics, Ecology, climate change, Music, Health Care, Republicans, over-educated literary theory PhDs, Science

Top 10 Atheist Quotes: Stupid and funny comments3 comments

tabletmedia wrote 3 weeks ago: 1. Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night … more →

Tags: atheist, ATHEIST QUOTES, top 10 atheist quotes, Stupid quotes, Funny Quotes, stupid atheist, love atheist, hate atheist, funny atheist quotes

The Barnes and Noble eBook Library

Gray Hunter wrote 4 weeks ago: By now, most of us are familiar with what an ebook is.  If not, here’s a quick definition, cul … more →

Tags: Blogcritic Articles, Books, writing, Barnes & Noble, del taco, eBook, Heart of Darkness, kindle, Plastic Logic

Just Nobody Say Detective Spooner

TheWritingWriter wrote 4 weeks ago: Isaac Asimov, quite clearly Da Man. Or as far as robotics are concerned at least (incidentally a ter … more →

Tags: L E N S Progress, Interesting Articles, L E N S

Asimov: Robot Dreams

cyborgia wrote 1 month ago: UPDATE: Mandala screenshots (below) I’ve begun encoding “Robot Dreams”, a short st … more →

Tags: cyberliterature, Psychology, Robot, Information, Computing, Textual, Analysis, encoding

Gandahar (a.k.a. Light Years) 1988

dpallee wrote 1 month ago: from "Gandahar (a.k.a. Light Years)" Here’s a tough one to find and even tougher to … more →

Tags: animation reviews, Animation, Science Fiction, Gandahar, Heavy Metal

Asimov Update: Gender and Otherness

cyborgia wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been working on my encoding of Asimov’s robot stories, and reworked the pr_ref tag … more →

Tags: cyberliterature, Posthuman, Psychology, Robot, Computing, Textual, visualization, interpretation, Analysis

Retro Review: I, Robot1 comment

soothsayer767 wrote 1 month ago: Director Alex Proyas, helmer of such cult favorites as “Dark City” and “The Crow”, steps into the Ho … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Retro Reviews, Reviews I-J, Sci-Fi, James Cromwell, Robots, Science Fiction, alex proyas, Will Smith

Movie comment:I,ROBOT

ovidiupatrascu wrote 1 month ago: The movie „I, ROBOT” takes –over the essentiall part of the SF-book called „Caves of steel”,by the w … more →

Tags: Articole/Articles, SF, I, Robot, Movie, film, Comment, Will Smith, Science Fiction


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