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Amoeba’s Lorica: SETIback
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away … maybe. (No, not that galaxy.) Avaan Fundebinder strode purposefully onto the auditorium stage of the Galactic Center to Search for ExtraTelemanny Intelligence (GC-SETI), to a storm of applause from … Continue reading
Amoeba’s Lorica: Vox Populi, Vox Dei
The spending caps at the center of the debt limit agreement target federal programs such as education, scientific research … – News item In the late afternoon of an early summer’s day in eastern Massachusetts, Chuck, aged 14, wandered along … Continue reading
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Tagged debt limit negotiations, income the only significant identity, pink lady's slippers, there are no votes in science
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AI: The Hero of the Hour
A work of fiction in the alternative-history mode. Alexander Fleming sat, or, rather, sprawled, on a chair in the second-floor room of his country cottage, the white face under its silver hair a talisman of misery. “The Dhoon” was on … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexa Health Services, Alexander Fleming, alternative history, human population pressure, penicillin, Surplus Humanity Service, what if
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