In Foundation, Issac Asimov wrote about a planet at the edge of the galaxy devoted to storing the entire contents of human knowledge in a great Encyclopedia Galactica, so that when the galactic empire fell the ensuing eternity of the Dark Ages wouldn’t be quite as dark and eternal.
Orson Scott Card’s elaborations* on the […]
Two times in two months that I’ve heard the same comment about childbirth is making me think about my stance on a particular liberated-woman-sensitive-man theory I’d accepted without much thought.
This theory is that both parents should be able to share equally in the birth of their child, from the beginning, and also that a strong […]
I didn’t use to have cable, and then I moved to Japan and now I don’t get any English TV or radio stations at all, so watching/hearing the news is pretty much a hassle and I feel I’m not keeping up.
And now I don’t have to! It’s like a three minute version of the Daily […]
An excellent piece of writing about respecting the intelligence and creativity of a kid.
What a lovely gift idea! And people say I’m hard to shop for.