Scott Robinson
Things Hoped For, Things Not Seen
I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 232 min
Fear of Quicksand
Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min
My Couch Pillow Fort: Or, the Importance of Avoiding Hot Lava
Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 223 min
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
I have no clear memory of a time when I didn’t love books. I remember reading Green Eggs and Ham aloud, cover to cover, for my...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min
Six Degrees of Abbey Bartlet
So Jed met Mrs. Landingham in prep school, where his dad was the headmaster and she was dad’s secretary. That makes them the oldest...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 195 min
A Tale of Two Franchises
Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 34 min
Nerd, Geek, Dork
What do we mean by nerd? There’s same ambiguity, I’m sure you’ll agree, in the application of the term in this diverse and culturally...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 285 min
Bunkhouse
I open my eyes and it’s pitch-black. That’s truly fucking unnerving. I take a deep but silent breath and get a quick sense of my...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 272 min
Mad Planet
The deputy administrator motioned to her assistant, who hurried to her side as one wall of the office faded away, revealing an expansive...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 2317 min
Space: 1999 - The True Nature of Human Community
Moonbase Alpha “They look like fine kids.” “They are. Our finest achievement.” “Whose are they?” “Sandra’s and Paul’s. Yes, the children...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 2211 min
Space: 1999 - Can a Machine Be Conscious?
"The Infernal Machine” “I am Delmer Powys Plebus Gwent of the planet Zemo. A man of considerable importance on that planet, perhaps not...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 226 min
Space: 1999 - The True Nature of Mind
"The Troubled Spirit” “You're probing into areas of the mind we know very little about. Of course, that's what makes it so fascinating.”...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 229 min
Space: 1999 - 2001, Cosmic Consciousness, and the True Nature of God
"Black Sun” “I'm a scientist. I don’t know anything about God.” ~Victor Bergman, to Koenig As Alpha prepares to pass through a black...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 227 min
Space: 1999 - Faith vs. Reason
"Collision Course” “How could anyone possibly know that a planet on a collision course would not collide... but simply touch?” ~Koenig,...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 166 min
Space: 1999 - The Struggle Between Good and Evil
“Dragon’s Domain” “John, if we ever do find a new place to live, and if we succeed, we’re going to need a whole new mythology.” “Tony...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 129 min
Do We Ultimately Have No Control Over Our Destiny?
Space: 1999 - "Breakaway” “As you know, our Moon has been blasted out of orbit. We have been completely cut off from planet Earth. As we...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 24, 20233 min
Watching the World Burn: The Paradox of Infant Sorrow
It’s hard to recall the artistry and antics (it’s often hard to tell which is which) of Brit rocker Aldous Snow without also thinking of...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20237 min
The Beggar's Infant
Dr. Tony Campolo has made a side career of speaking to multinational corporations, urging them to Do the Right Thing. And he puts...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20232 min
The New Nationalism
Dr. Tony Campolo’s warning – that the Moral Majority would form an alliance with the political far Right and attempt to get a...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20234 min
Christmases
Our family’s celebration of the Nativity echoes as one of the happiest components of my otherwise emotionally patchwork childhood. Not so...
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