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The Lovely Miss Johnny Depp
During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...

Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
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Does the Star Trek Transporter Kill You?
Surprisingly, our first revisitation of a popular fanboy debate focuses on a question that really wasn’t asked much back in the first...

Scott Robinson
Jun 7, 20215 min read
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Can a Human Brain Be Downloaded into an Android?
I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...

Scott Robinson
Jun 6, 20215 min read
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Enterprise vs. Galactica: Who Would Win?
One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...

Scott Robinson
Jun 3, 20214 min read
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That Tribble Guy
It would be hard to overstate the impact of Star Trek’s David Gerrold on my writing career. If you’re reading this book at all, you’re...

Scott Robinson
May 14, 20216 min read
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The Wire
I He wasn’t alone. At first this realization, triggered by a muffled sneeze in the locker behind him, brought more relief than fear; and...

Scott Robinson
May 2, 202118 min read
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Space: $19.99
It’s hard to convey to Millennials, let alone Zoomers, just what it was like growing up in a world where Star Trek was just a single TV...

Scott Robinson
Mar 20, 20215 min read
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Fake Beatles in Space
Two high school friends informed this next great nerd discovery, one that merged my two great lifetime loves: science fiction and the...

Scott Robinson
Mar 13, 20215 min read
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Major Matt Mason
It was 1968, I think. I’d have been seven years old. Kennedy’s quest for the moon was well underway, and as young as I was, it somehow...

Scott Robinson
Mar 13, 20213 min read
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Story Time
By Scott Robinson Eager footsteps and loud giggles pushed against the cold, gray stillness that hovered like fog in front of him, and it...

Scott Robinson
Feb 10, 20216 min read
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21st Century Grown-Ass Housekeeping
And now, young son, your Uncle Scott is going to guide you across the hazardous terrain of housekeeping. You’re already familiar with the...

Scott Robinson
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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How to Build Your Own Belief!
If you’re in the market for beliefs, there is of course no shortage. They’re everywhere! You can’t turn around without tripping over one,...

Scott Robinson
Jan 23, 202110 min read
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Strange Loops, Pets, and Conscious Planets
Oft have we pondered the mystery of strange loops – those bits and pieces of thought, emotion, memory and experience that pass between us...

Scott Robinson
Dec 6, 20205 min read
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My Sweet George
George was the first Beatle to post up a #1 single as a solo artist. And a magnificent first #1 it was, becoming the biggest selling...

Scott Robinson
Dec 1, 20208 min read
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It's in His Kiss
Science has, of late, confirmed what teenagers have known for more than 3,000,000 years: a human female’s desire to mate increases in...

Scott Robinson
Nov 30, 20202 min read
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The Stinky T-Shirt Test
The Joy of Sex emphasizes the importance of male scent in female sexual selection. “When it's a question of bed or not-bed, they let...

Scott Robinson
Nov 30, 20203 min read
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Hyperindividualism and the Second Mountain
Once upon a time, David Brooks was a soldier of the conservative right. During this period, he had wandered out of a liberal youth...

Scott Robinson
Nov 30, 20204 min read
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Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain...
For tens of millions the world over, the passing of Sean Connery is no small sorrow. The Scottish screen icon’s singular voice narrated...

Scott Robinson
Nov 26, 20209 min read
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On the Nature of a Book
A few moments ago, I found myself trying to read from a book with one hand and type with the other. This posture is non-optimal for...

Scott Robinson
Nov 23, 20203 min read
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Libraries
It is a September Saturday morning, and my daughter has resumed her weekend dance class – and I, once again, have the happy duty of being...

Scott Robinson
Nov 23, 20203 min read
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