Category Archives: Personal history

Cosmos and Beyond

Posted on Monday 3 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Looking forward to the new Cosmos TV series, with Neil deGrasse Tyson. The original series, with Carl Sagan, was not so much an influential event in my life as a realization and visualization and confirmation of what I’d learned to … Continue reading →

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Families

Posted on Tuesday 26 November 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s New York Times’ Science section is entirely devoted to ‘Families’, with articles about changing trends and also profiles of several nontraditional families, including one about a gay couple — in their 50s and 60s — who have adopted 6 … Continue reading →

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Frederik Pohl

Posted on Tuesday 3 September 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m not sure it’s generally appreciated the extent to which Frederik Pohl underwent a sea change in the mid-70s, much as Silverberg had done a decade before [partly under Pohl’s editorship]. Pohl had been a significant writer in the ’50s, … Continue reading →

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Endeavour

Posted on Sunday 1 September 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

Both boys are in town this holiday weekend, so the four of us headed (via lunch at a Korean BBQ place in a dicey part of town) to the California Science Center — one of a cluster of museums just … Continue reading →

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Twitter So Far

Posted on Monday 22 July 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

So I created a Twitter account a couple weeks ago, initially to track someone posting comments about Locus Online, but mostly just to come up to speed with this form of online social media, as a publisher of an [online] … Continue reading →

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More Views

Posted on Friday 12 July 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

This is the initial post on my new blog, a sequel to the Locus Online editorial blog Views from Medina Road.

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