Comments for When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com A Sunday newspaper column exploring our mixed up world... Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on When Worlds Collide #70: Sailing the Stormy Seas of Social Media by Mel http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/when-worlds-collide-70-sailing-the-stormy-seas-of-social-media/#comment-1018 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:54:58 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?p=1106#comment-1018 Couldn’t agree with you more. Happy surfing in SM nursery slopes

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]]> Comment on When Worlds Collide #68: Imagine That! Analyse This! by Nalaka Gunawardene http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/when-worlds-collide-68-imagine-that-analyse-this/#comment-1007 Sun, 26 May 2013 02:26:57 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?p=1071#comment-1007 Reblogged this on Moving Images, Moving People!.

]]> Comment on When Worlds Collide #40: End-of-the-World, Inc. by When Worlds Collide #68: Imagine That! Analyse This! | When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/when-worlds-collide-40-end-of-the-world-inc/#comment-1005 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:52:49 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?p=511#comment-1005 […] Runaway imagination without scepticism can be dangerously distracting or outright delusional. This is what sustains the multi-billion dollar cottage industry of conspiracy theories ranging from alien abductions and Bermuda triangles to the globally pervasive myths about ‘end of the world’. […]

]]> Comment on When Worlds Collide #67: Star Trek to Utopia: The Journey Continues… by Nalaka Gunawardene http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/when-worlds-collide-67-star-trek-to-utopia-the-journey-continues/#comment-1003 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:10:07 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?p=1058#comment-1003 @Jon Lomberg , Many thanks for completing the anecdote! I hadn’t mentioned this to keep text shorter. That’s another insight into how influential Star Trek was in the real world — and also a reminder how how astute and strategic MLK was!

I’m glad our paths will cross again on the opposite side of the planet…

]]> Comment on When Worlds Collide #67: Star Trek to Utopia: The Journey Continues… by Jon Lomberg http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/when-worlds-collide-67-star-trek-to-utopia-the-journey-continues/#comment-1002 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:41:13 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?p=1058#comment-1002 Nichelle Nichols tells then story that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told her how important she was as a role model for black women. She had actually been thinking of leaving the show, but King urged her to stay. Nalaka, I look forward to meeting you tomorrow at UCSD.

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]]> Comment on The Column by Nalaka Gunawardene http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/about/#comment-991 Tue, 07 May 2013 05:09:16 +0000 http://collidecolumn.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-991 Disclaimer: No, I don’t anything like the blogger in cartoon above — as mistakenly presumed by some readers!

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