Mr. Spock's Little Book of Mindfulness rubbed me the wrong way. It isn't really about mindfulness, the few life lessons it offers aren't universally applicable, and it doesn't really get at the nuance of Mr. Spock as a character.
I almost didn't finish this book, but I'm glad I did. I picked up The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness at a library used book sale because I love Paula Poundstone on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and I suspected t...
Visual artists Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber bring us an uncanny library of book covers to peruse. The titles range from the hilarious (How to Brainwash Your Friends and Eat Their Lunch or Whether I Helped or Not, At Least it was App...
Mr. Spock's Little Book of Mindfulness rubbed me the wrong way. It isn't really about mindfulness, the few life lessons it offers aren't universally applicable, and it doesn't really get at the nuance of Mr. Spock as a character.
I almost didn't finish this book, but I'm glad I did. I picked up The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness at a library used book sale because I love Paula Poundstone on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and I suspected t...
Visual artists Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber bring us an uncanny library of book covers to peruse. The titles range from the hilarious (How to Brainwash Your Friends and Eat Their Lunch or Whether I Helped or Not, At Least it was App...
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Ace Ratcliff at Gizmodo has interesting thoughts on wheelchair accessibility in SF, including Star Trek. This line is one I need to really keep handy: “Contrary to ableist opinion, a utopia is not a world where disability is a problem that’s been solved; rather, it’s an inevitable expression of genetic variance, and disabled humans are not just welcomed but fully included.)“
Reappropriate considers an alternate universe TNG that would’ve had Asian Americans as Data and Tasha Yar, a possibility indicated by 1987 casting memos.
