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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2006-07-06: The Deer in the Headlights

This was a pretty funny bit. I have been on camera a couple of times myself, and I also find it very different than performing on stage. The Deer in the Headlights My fellow spelling reformers' tactic of picketing the National Spelling Bee every year has never greatly engaged

The Long View 2006-07-05: Format; The Fall of New Jersey; Anti-Southern Strategy; Democrat Immigration Liability

I've lost a few of John's blog posts from the middle of June through July 2006. It looks like he was trying a hosted blog service that he didn't like, and I can't access saved copies of the main blog URL from

The Long View 2006-06-14: Inconstant Constants; Snowball Earth; Ireland & Denmark & Bush

The snowball earth hypothesis is an interesting one. It makes some intuitive sense to me as a meta-stable point in a dynamic system, but the devil is in the details here. Inconstant Constants; Snowball Earth; Ireland & Denmark & Bush The universe rests on shaky foundations, if we may believe

Soulminder Book Review

Soulminder by Timothy Zahn Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (September 23, 2014) 334 pages ASIN B07B675RVC For Dr. Adrian Sommer, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy—and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved