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It’s International Twilight Zone Day! Those who’ve never seen it, I recommend that you remedy that omission ASAP. Find a list of classic episodes and watch those first, then watch the others in any order you like—it’s an anthology series,so no matter what order you watch in, you won’t miss anything important.

I used to live near the time-capsule town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Rod Serling taught creative writing for a year or two at then-large Antioch College. When I’d go there I’d get such a kick out of it. “I’m walking the same streets Rod Serling walked. ROD SERLING!”

I don’t know what YS was like in the ‘60’s, but today it’s pretty dilapidated, which is strange because the residents ain’t poor. Houses there average about $400K. I can only guess that the residents believe in shabby chic. I don’t. Having lived in shabby areas myself—and not for reasons of chic!— I much prefer even sidewalks that aren’t crumbling.

And Speaking of Zombies...

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/display-ceremonial-head-returning-amazon-rcna884

Let’s hope the honoree’s descendants can be found at this late date so they can take him back and give him whatever funeral rites are appropriate down Amazon way.

The Center Of Science And Industry in Columbus, Ohio, used to have a shrunken head. It’s probably no longer there; since the Center was sold and improved, they mostly have empty space. It—the head, not the Center—was about the size of an average coconut. I can’t tell you much else about it, as the display was horrendously overlit. Most of their other displays were horrendously underlit. They had trouble finding a happy medium.

To Bee Or Not To Bee

What, if anything, are insects thinking about?

https://aeon.co/essays/inside-the-mind-of-a-bee-is-a-hive-of-sensory-activity

I myself have always thought all living things have souls. This is not the teaching of my religion, which has 2,000 more years of experience in matters of the soul than I have, so by all means take their opinion more seriously than mine. I am less certain that all living things have minds, but am certainly open to the idea. What do you think?

Wowsers

Here is some heavy-duty thinking. To me it sounds like fancied-up Calvinism. What do you think?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/27/the-clockwork-universe-is-free-will-an-illusion?utm_term=2a80ab51282712b9f82d6c7ff5207d10&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email