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Saturday, February 11, 2023
H.G. Wells and World War I
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As I have remarked time and again H.G. Wells is these days little remembered but as a science fiction novelist--and at that, a producer of t...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
What Will TV Be Like in 2026? (And Beyond!)
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CNBC recently sat down with a dozen senior figures in the TV industry and asked them a series of questions about just where they think that ...
Is the Future Solitary?
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From time to time the folks in the news media point out the fact that more people are living alone than before in some fashion or another--o...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Is Blogging Dead? Not Exactly, But . . .
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Typing the keywords "Is blogging dead?" into the principal search of engine of the day invariably leads one to a long list of link...
Balzac's Theatre of Literature, the Theater of Cinema, and Oscar-Time (A Note on the Andrea Riseborough Affair)
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In an earlier comment on Balzac's classic Lost Illusions I mentioned the hard lessons that his protagonist, Lucien du Rubempre, learns...
Sunday, February 5, 2023
On the Crime Beat
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Matt Taibbi, discussing crime reporting in his book Hate, Inc., remarked that part of the media's strategy for keeping people coming bac...
Friday, February 3, 2023
What Was '90s Irony Really About?
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Not too long ago I remarked that in the '90s there still seemed a certain amount of alertness on the part of society's thinkers abou...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
The Florida Man Phenomenon: A Note
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In the past decade "Florida Man" became a popular Internet meme, derived from just how often news stories detailing comically biza...
Sunday, January 29, 2023
The Myth of a Country Ever More Awash in Holders of "Useless" Degrees
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The accusation that the fault for many a national problem lies in the country's young people eschewing STEM in favor of "soft"...
Higher Education in the America of Berzelius Windrip
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Back before literature went over to the Counter-Enlightenment mind, body and soul, devoting itself to epistemological nihilism, Medieval mis...
Should Economics Be Classified as a STEM Subject?
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In recent years there has been a big push to have economics classified as a STEM field --and while this issue is not exactly high on the pub...
Why Aren't More Young People Attracted to Study of and Careers in STEM Subjects? A Thought
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Before proceeding any further I think it necessary to say that there is a considerable body of literature debunking the myth of a (to use th...
Friday, December 16, 2022
Some Thoughts on Reading a List of the Top 500 Keyword Searches
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The Search Engine Optimization company PageTraffic posted a list of the 500 most popular keywords on Google during 2022 (so far, anyway) on ...
Does a Book Release Now Have to be an Event for People to Take an Interest?
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I have previously written about how the tougher and tougher market for theatrically released films since the advent of TV has meant that fil...
Black Panther 2, Avatar and the End of 2022
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Black Panther 2 has taken in $11 million in its fifth weekend, lifting its total to $409 million (up from $394 million last weekend), a rate...
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