by Ai Friendly | Oct 1, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology, Writing for Writers
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1863? In 2008, the NAS founded the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The NAS’s involvement helps ensure fiction that educates, inspires, and predicts the future of our...
by Ai Friendly | Sep 25, 2025 | Culture Wars, Education
We all live inside an amorphous and sometimes conflicting cloud of opinion of our own making. People rarely change their opinions, and we are usually making a mistake when we set out to change one. People hold tight to their opinions and often will defend those...
by Ai Friendly | Aug 24, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
Recommendations for Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus, a biography. You will learn a lot about who the man was. The why of the man requires some extrapolation from the facts. The most relevant facts are these: Bill Buckley, Jr. grew up in his father’s household. Bill Buckley...
by Ai Friendly | Aug 19, 2025 | Culture Wars, Politcal Parties, Politics
It has been said we are in a “pre-paradigmatic moment.” A time of deep flux, where the foundations of shared understanding that have held true for decades, centuries, or even longer have become unsettled. And we are on the verge of some mind-boggling societal changes...
by Ai Friendly | Aug 9, 2025 | Science and Emerging Technology
In the 1990’s the economist and futurist Robin Hanson coined the phrase The Great Filter as a speculative answer to the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing in our vast universe and the...
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