July 23, 2023
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Miriam

Unveiling Detective Miriam Hunter Hey there! First up, I’ll tell you all about Detective Miriam Hunter, the fascinating chief protagonist in my sci-fi series “The Hunter Series.” Then, I’ll throw in some questions from a recent interview I did that expands on Miriam’s character and backstory. Let’s dive right in! […]
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July 23, 2023
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Author Inspiration

Interview with Robin Craig the Author The interview below explores where I get my plot ideas from, my writing process and more. Enjoy it – I did (thanks ThoughtWare Books) for chatting with me:-) Interviewer: Robin, your repertoire includes a wide variety of stories, ranging from science fiction and alternative […]
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December 19, 2015
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Abortion Rights

In an earlier article I have argued for a woman’s absolute right to abort her embryo or foetus. This was based on the fundamental principle that the origin of rights is not a human shape or a human genome, but the possession of a thinking mind. The same reasoning implies that […]
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April 28, 2012
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Free Will Forever

Continuing the grand tradition begun by the behaviourists of attempting to use the science of the mind to banish free will is Sam Harris’ opinion piece Free will is an illusion – and must be exposed (he also develops this theme in a recent book on the topic). No doubt it […]
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September 2, 2011
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Rational Rioting

A recent Scientific American article on the British riots claimed that “contrary to popular wisdom, mobs are not mindless. In fact, they act rationally—a characteristic that suggests ways to prevent riots.” If you go through the reasoning, what it amounts to is: we need to stop rioting, but rioting is […]
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May 5, 2011
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Through a Glass, Half Empty

An interesting report from The Scientist: Chronic diseases world’s no. 1 killer Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are now the biggest killers around the world, a new report by the World Health Organization found. Accounting for more than 60 percent of the deaths worldwide in 2008, […]
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April 9, 2011
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Heroes

Ayn Rand identified the “package deal” as one of the deadly errors of thinking: combining opposites into the one concept, thus hopelessly confusing thinking. It is at its worst in ethical issues, where something good is conflated with something bad: something that can only damage the good and promote the […]
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February 5, 2011
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Obama for Capitalism!

According to a report in Science, President Obama has become an advocate of market forces: Letting market forces help the United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by choosing “cleaner” sources of electricity has been a popular notion among some Republicans, who oppose the Democratic alternative of putting a price on […]
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February 4, 2011
Published by admin at February 4, 2011
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Lovem el-Said

We in the West have a great life, where for all the limitations on our rights and freedoms, we do have rights and freedoms. But we often forget the price someone, somewhere, somewhen, paid for those rights and freedoms. Reporting on the anti-government protests in Egypt, The Washington Post quotes […]
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