In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
With a pilot that was deemed too complex and cerebral, ‘Star Trek’ looked dead in the water. Fifty years later, we look back at the show’s rocky beginnings.
Streaming on-demand services are bringing back classic TV shows in a big way. Is mining our collective nostalgia sacrilegious or just giving audiences what they want?
Can Captain Kirk’s struggle for belonging and identity become a tool for teaching?
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Temple Grandin is perhaps the world’s foremost advocate on autism. But before she became famous, she was an awkward young girl who found solace in Mr. Spock’s logical world view in TV’s Star Trek.
Star Trek fans were especially drawn to Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock – who showed many that it “was okay to be a nerd, that even in the future not everyone fit in, or needed to.”
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Lynn Zubernis, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Star Trek fans were especially drawn to Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock – who showed many that it “was okay to be a nerd, that even in the future not everyone fit in, or needed to.”
The pressure’s on JJ Abrams and the new Star Wars films.
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Much of the excitement of fantastical and science fictional worlds is the sense of history they have, their depth, and the joy of sharing them with others. Whether it be Star Trek, Star Wars, or Back to…
Hyper-drives might be the stuff of science fiction, but they could be science fact too.
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Fans of science fiction must be disheartened when introduced to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Dreams of galactic empires, criss-crossed by roguish princesses and beautiful smugglers, go out…