Scott Robinson
Nurturant
The Berkeley cognitive scientist/linguist George Lakoff has spent decades pursuing a deep understanding of how our word choices affect...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 26, 20225 min read
My iPhone, in the Year 2401
So there’s this great episode of The Orville, which takes place in the 25th century, where a time capsule from the 21st has been dug up...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 10, 20224 min read
The Scrape
Many are the innovations that rock musicians have contributed to the art of the guitar - unquestionably more than have been rendered by...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 18, 20223 min read
Red Shirt Analytics
Analytics expert Matt Bailey likes to stress the power of the craft in his seminars by working through one of Star Trek’s biggest...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 18, 20222 min read
The Dangerous Bookworm
In the 17th century, a period that included a Russian famine, the death of Elizabeth I, the assassination of the French king Henry IV,...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Stonehenge for Sale!
It’s not easy to think of monuments better known or more mysterious than Stonehenge, nor any more longstanding: not even the pyramids of...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Milky Way Earth
To fully appreciate the sheer magnitude of the vast distances in space and time that separate the Earth from whatever cousins she may...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 6, 20221 min read
That Cheap-Ass Barney Fife!
There’s a moment in the old Andy Griffith Show where Andy and Barney are talking about their plans for the weekend – Andy’s date with...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 6, 20222 min read
Merely???
Something has been bugging me for 43 years now. I feel it’s time to speak up, once and for all. It’s 1979. I’m sitting in the movie...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20222 min read
Ike and Erich Fromm
Want to understand Authoritarians? Political author Max Blumenthal recalls and exchange between Erich Fromm (The True Believer) and...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20222 min read
The People Who Long to Be Led
There are those who want to live in a society where no one person is absolutely in charge – no monarch, no dictator, no master – and...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20222 min read
Worshippers of Men
As we look around today, we see tens of millions of people worshipping a man. They worship him so utterly that they will have no other...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 31, 20224 min read
The Triangle of Doom
Heather Cox Richardson makes the point in her column1 that the Republican Party has been trapped for years in a “Triangle of Doom” - a...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 11, 20226 min read
Star Trek, Humanism, and Tony Campolo
Tony Campolo’s book A Reasonable Faith had arrived two years after I’d heard him speak in Gatlinburg, at the Christian Student Fellowship...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 21, 20223 min read
My Turkey Bacon Sandwich
Me (at keys) and Bob Holzner (on drums) and Keith Lloyd (on guitar) There was one bright spot in particular during the Highland...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 7, 20223 min read
A Proper Nerd Vocabulary
Not all nerds are Word Nerds; but all Word Nerds are about… vocabulary. The Word Nerd loves their words, and wants more. More. More! The...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20224 min read
Nerds: The Silent Generation
I’ve presented my own credentials above, and have stressed that this book is about the future – the training of the next generation as it...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20224 min read
The Nerd's Life-Long Accumulation of Random Information and Useless Knowledge
So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 3, 202210 min read
Nerd Supremacy
It’s essential, of course, to think seriously about the challenges your young nerds will face, stacking up against the world’s...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 3, 202211 min read
Entropy, Interrupted (long version)
Revisiting the work of physicist Jeremy England, we’re reminded that his new theory posits that the conflict between entropy (the idea...
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