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Here are some shows that I’ve seen a few episodes of, vacation edition. The previous iteration of this list is here. Finding Your Roots Celebrities, and sometimes non-celebrities, find out about their ancestors on this show. I found it enthralling. The guests are presented with copies of significant documents like newspaper clippings and birth certificates. […]
Ilissa Ocko, an atmospheric scientist, provides some details in this TED Talk that I hadn’t heard before. In addition to reducing carbon dioxide, which is important for the long term, we also need to reduce methane — which is important for the short term. The 3 main categories of methane production are energy production, waste […]
{5/5} “Now let me be clear, Captain. The Federation has suffered great damage to its confidence over the pat few years… If this threat is as serious as you suggest, then we must move carefully to address it. At this moment, our Federation is fragile. I must balance the needs of the member worlds and […]
{5/5} “‘I heard this one woman singing ‘Umbrella’ cause she thought it might rain outside, so you know what I did?’ ‘Gave her an umbrella.’” Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas, released in 2021 Zoey is facing her first Christmas without her dad. Her family has decided to split up and go their own way, and she told […]
{4.5/5} “You know as well as I, no treasure is worth as much as the good that can be done with it.” — Star-Lord T’Challa What If…? season 1, aired in 2021 A being called The Watcher brings us stories that take place in other universes, where things happened differently. What if in 1943 Steve […]
{4.5/5} “I’m also saying you’ve done your job properly, Captain. The people you trained to be the leaders who will stand in your stead whenever you decide it’s time to enjoy your well-earned retirement are more than ready to answer the call. They’re not leaving you; they’re carrying your legacy into the future.” Star Trek: […]
All of the Star Trek novels that take place in the 24th century have been part of a shared, consistent universe for the last 20 years. These novels take place after Nemesis, after “What You Leave Behind,” and after “Endgame.” They fall into the novel series The Next Generation, Titan, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and […]
{5/5} “Old Earth had already been surrounded by a belt of slagged tech, fast-moving wreckage, and miscellaneous debris so dense that it required a skilled pilot with algo assistance to navigate it. The last time anyone had attempted to clear a path they’d accidentally started a conflagration between leave-behind killbots from the sore losers of […]
Ramsey Theory “states that given enough elements in a set or structure some particularly interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge.” And we all know that humans evolved to find patterns. This explains the subset of conspiracy theories where people think that an old text has predicted something. Here’s the explanation on TED-Ed: The […]
{4.5/5} “‘What makes a Loki a Loki?’ ‘Independence, authority… style.” Loki season 1, aired in 2021 When a tesseract is dropped at his feet, Loki grabs it — he thinks he’s free, but the timeline police arrest him almost immediately. Loki has no powers inside the Time Variance Authority. Agent Mobius comes along to offer […]