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That's one of the thinks that Kurt Vonnegut was always pointing out. We have evolved as a species that needs family bonds. We've always...

Just thinking about the relationship between emotions and truth. There is no emotion attached to objective truth, since it is something...

And family. Yes, I have always felt that our evolution as a social animal influenced so much of our behavior. For example, I think the...

The answer in any case is 42.

Or the ones who wanted to put their kids on top of those big shaggy cows to take a picture at Yellowstone Park. One of the things...

As the scriptwriters for Alien did for Sigourney Weaver's role. It might be a good exercise if writers took a story at random and...

My cousin Bert Coleman, who lived in a rural area outside Syracuse, New York, had an old rusted-out jeep to which he affixed a snowplow...

That. Advice from Leo Marks, master code-breaker in World War II, to the young women he was training as cryptographers: "Don't grow...

I think there is a proliferation of bad storytelling that is led by self-published schlock and b-movies using generic plots and...

"10 years or 1 hour. Those are the two time frames worth prioritizing. 10 years is shorthand for thinking longer-term than nearly...

But you won't gain much insight into the validity of the arguer's viewpoint. Or, rather, taking the chance that, by arguing a position...

I essentially just meant challenge yourself.

And, of course, there's a country-rock band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, most famous for their song "They Ain't Makin'...

Margaret Atwood made the same point about the existence of God. She said that the only rational stance as agnosticism, since it was...

I'm the kind of writer who likes to dabble in a broad range of settings, genres etc. Some random idea followed for a distraction more...