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10/07/2021

Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.

07/10/2020

Interesting study on the prospect of linguistic shift in generation ships....

A pair of linguists recently did a study, which appeared in an ESA-associated journal, that discusses how interstellar travel could lead to changes in our language.

04/22/2020

The artists of ILM salute our healthcare and essential workers -- with a Star Wars twist.

03/26/2020

along the way we must guard our consciences. We cannot pass by on the side of the road when the elderly, the disabled, the poor, and the vulnerable are in peril before our eyes. We want to hear the sound of cash registers again, but we cannot afford to hear them over the cries of those made in the image of God.

Christianity teaches that every single human life is valuable, even during a pandemic.

01/18/2020

https://buff.ly/2FYDZNA The values preached by Martin Luther King Jr. need rediscovering in 2020

The trouble, he said, was not that we don’t know enough, but that “we aren’t good enough.”

11/17/2019

Not just Klingon, check out mandoa.mrklingon.org if you're a fan of Mandalorians!

08/30/2019

The largest problem evangelicals currently face is the massive sell-off of evangelicalism among the young.

08/06/2019

Link Found Between Gun Violence and Cowardly Politicians

As part of the study’s methodology, researchers examining gun violence compared countries ruled by non-cowards with those ruled by gutless toadies.

07/26/2019

Libraries are the cornerstones of democracy, where all people—regardless of income, race and religion—are welcome. To me, they’re also the one place where I truly feel at home.

In his op-ed for Forbes last year, Panos Mourdoukoutas, a professor of economics at LIU Post in New York, suggested that Amazon stores should replace libraries to save taxpayers money. Following th…

06/20/2019

Interesting reflection on language and Sapir-Whorf....

Hello, and welcome to my new monthly(ish) column about language and linguistics in science fiction and fantasy! My name is Conni (CD) Covington, and I have MAs in both German and linguistics. I wro…

06/11/2019

Don't forget your spacesuit!

Don’t forget your spacesuit: Complex lifeforms, such as humans, would not survive on many of the worlds we thought would be interstellar…

04/24/2019

Isaac Asimov immigrated from a place that did not cherish human liberty and freedom, which encouraged him, like millions of immigrants before and since, to embrace those values even more.

Isaac Asimov immigrated with his family and changed science fiction. His family arrived just before the 1924 Act blocked Jews and others.