Reviews

Dear Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: You’re lucky I didn’t have anything else to do

Dear Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: I don’t want to put a damper on things. My wife and I are about to plunge into your third season and I couldn’t be happier. Your second season was phenomenal. It was full of moments where we asked, “I wonder when they’re going to deal with [X]?” And then you did. In that episode. And the story barreled forward. Do you realize how rarely we’ve gotten to see that kind…

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Writing

Recommended Reading: Oliver Sacks

How could I not be interested in the work of Oliver Sacks? It’s not just the one about the anthropologist on Mars (though I have that). Sacks explored the human condition in a multitude of cases where the humans in question were grappling with many rare and unusual conditions. What is life? What is humanity? What is perception and consciousness? These were some of the questions he touched on in an engaging writing style that…

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