• The Trauma Past

    In an article published in the New Yorker in 2022, Parul Sehgal talked about what he called the “trauma plot,” which uses the traumatic background of a character’s backstory as […]

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  • AI and Me

    I don’t know what I think about AI (“artificial intelligence” for the uninitiated).  Like any new advance in technology, especially technology of computers, it has the power to be useful […]

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  • A Few Thoughts For Late December

    I don’t usually blog about politics, but when it intersects with science and scientific matters, I may decide to make a few comments. Like today. First, a little about masks. […]

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