Retro Nostalgia: Contact (1997) and Conflating Faith and Science and Its Hopeful Ethos
Anyone with a passing familiarity with Carl Sagan’s popularization of science will recall his profound optimism, both with humanity’s scientific endeavors and its almost desperate need to strive for “more.” I think it’s fair to say that he imagined science as humanity’s great thrust to greatness — to controlling itself and its environment. After all, […]
A Comic Journey: New Comics, New Reading, and the Happy Shaun
Nothing I’m about to say here will seem cohesive. I’ve become obsessed with comics, if you didn’t already know. Gloriously and deliciously obsessed. You all probably saw it coming, though, particularly after I wrote this post about my first trip to a comic shop in years (and this review I wrote some time back). What […]