Roddenberry

JANUARY 4, 2009Public Memorial Service for the Late “First Lady of Star Trek” Majel Barrett Roddenberry Cast Members and Fans Come Out to Celebrate and Remember Roddenberry’s Life WHO: Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of Gene & Majel Roddenberry and CEO of Roddenberry Productions, will host cast members, family, friends and…

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Koan

A note I jotted to myself sometime in the past.  I don’t recall the circumstances, but the question posed feels universal. The spiritualists cringe and argue against any description of self-conscious life as mechanism, that any mere machine is necessarily only an accumulation of parts and processes that can never…

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Lawrence Lessig: Disband the FCC

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig is a student of history.  He has documented that, despite their proclaimed goals, most government regulatory agencies end up promoting "excessive government favors and excessive private monopoly power." In light of this history,) Lessig recommends that we disband the FCC and that we replace it…

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R.I.P. IDEA

It would seem according to this report that University and College presence of Intelligent Design is on its deathbed.  Perhaps this is premature, but if true it would signal that the basic inability of ID to support its own conclusions are now becoming evident to all but the thoroughly committed.…

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