Tag: Mary Shelley
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Who Benefits?
It seems like a great idea, doesn’t it? Wars are fought over borders, so let’s lower them. Boundaries keep us in as much as others out, so let’s break them down. Identities limit us, so let’s make them so fluid as to be meaningless. It’s a grand scheme, this freeing the world of all that…
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Objectivity
In these days of the pandemic, the scientist has finally attained the status always sought. With the development of the vaccine, in such a short space of time, we have our superhero. It may still lag behind in the style stakes, but science has shown itself as the team which assembled to defeat the invader.…
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The Story of Life
“Life? Don’t talk to me about life.”Marvin the Paranoid Android ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘ by Douglas Adams There is so much pressure, these days, to accept the science. We have no need, so we’re told, for faith or belief in anything for which we cannot provide evidence. Reason and the scientific method are…
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The Post-modern Prometheus
‘The Post-modern Prometheus’, from Season Five of the X-Files presents us with something of a controversy. The plot involves a doctor working in isolation on the Hox gene – the gene which ensures that the correct structures form in the correct places within a body. Unbeknownst to said doctor, his father has been conducting experiments of his own,…
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Only the Lonely
Imagine walking into a town only to find that your arrival brings the population to the grand total of 1! How long would it take to have you pressing the emergency button, crying for help? This is the premise of the very first episode of Rod Serling’s almost legendary series, The Twilight Zone (1959-1964). Earl…
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Writing the text already written
Fox Mulder comes from a broken home. Approaching this scenario from a rational perspective, we can accept that some kind of traumatic event happened when Fox Mulder was twelve years old. This event involved the disappearance of his eight-year-old sister. This, in itself, is enough to tear a family apart. Mulder, at some point, came…
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