Nicolas Sampson
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Author and columnist. Specializes in short stories, historical fiction, social commentary, and Globe psyconomics. Facebook: Nicolas D. Sampson.
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New World Order: A World of TrEUble – Part 2
New World Order: A World of TrEUble – Part 1
When Kids And Parents Clash
The Hunger Games: A Book Review
Europe 2012-2013: Hot Spots And Cooling Points
The Importance Of Being Ernest
SwifTED: 404 Errors With A Twist
Low Pressure, Royal Highness
Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor: His Vision For Cities
Know Your Rights – And Be Ready To Defend Them – Part 2
Know Your Rights – And Be Ready To Defend Them – Part 1
TEDX: How To Use A Paper Towel
Ego | Eco: The Fall From Disgrace
Allegory Of The Cave: Deprivation vs Pandemonium
Gentle And Rude Awakenings
Under The Microscope: Worm Encounters Of A Turd Kind
…And Justice For All
Press This Button To Add Drama
CompacTED: Algorithms – A New Level Of Organization
Spin Doctor: The Failing Kind Of Equality, Part 1
Bugged!
RSAnimate: Language As A Window
Key Biscayne’s Tennis Showdown
Love Conquers All
The Carriers Of Memory: A University Of Cambridge Research Piece
Spin Doctor Meets Wake Of Liberty: A Time Of Choices, Part 2
Being Human: A Thought Experiment, Part 1
Under The Microscope: Let It Flow | Let It Grow
Observe And Learn: Earth’s Orbit
Aurora: A Celestial Event
Wake Of Liberty: 26 – Oh Liberty!
Dotcom Seizure: Long Arm Of Uncle Sam, Part 2
Dotcom Seizure: Long Arm Of Uncle Sam, Part 1
Calcutta: A Great Surprise
Spin Doctor: A Time Of Choices, Part 1
Wake Of Liberty Supplements: Hardwired To Survive
Major Motion Picture Battle For Our Attention: The Movie
CompacTED: Damon Lindelof
Under The Microscope: Skate Heads | Mouse Tails
Food For Thought: Wayseeing
The Glamour Industry: Vacant Stares And The Plague Of The Vanities
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: “We Are The Gods Now!”
Under The Microscope: Golden Electronics | Beetle Embryonics
Wake Of Liberty: 25 – From ‘Well-Beloved’ To ‘As Stupid As Peace’
Soundbites And Images To Change The World: Stephen Hawking
Under The Microscope: Microscopic Terminators
Under The Microscope: Microscopic Terminators
Wake Of Liberty: 24 – The ‘Well-Beloved’ Despot
Under The Microscope: Out Of Many, One – And Beautiful
Beauty, Health, Happiness: They Don’t Have To Be Nerve-Wracking
Under The Microscope: Liquid Crystals
Wake Of Liberty: 23 – Rejuvenated
Soundbites To Change The World: Paris Hilton Lead Story To The Shredder
Under The Microscope: Mouse Embryo
Angry Birds au Naturel
New World Order: An Undeniable Development Larger Than Conspiracy
Under The Microscope: Foot And Antenna
Under The Microscope: Eye-Tech
Jim Carrey: Ace, Mask, Almighty Yes Man, And, Above All, Truman
New World Order: Organized And Incorporated
Spin Doctor: Negativity Condensed – The Most Dangerous Drug Of All
Food For Thought: Turtles All The Way Down
Mass Press: The Daily Junk High
Around The World: 343 Days, 6237 Photographs
Emancipated, Excited, Enthralled
New World Order: We, The Markets
Beauty vs Vanity
Fracking: The Wrong Kind Of Enterprise
Wake Of Liberty: 22 – Darkness Descends
Super PACs
Wake Of Liberty: 21 – Spectacular Justice
What Goes Around: Be Care-Full!
Spin Doctor: Equality – Catastrophic Inspiration
Wake Of Liberty Supplements: Coronation Masses – Windows To A Bygone Era
Spin Doctor: Indignation – The 99%’s Double-Edged Sword
New World Order: Beware Of Banks Bearing Gifts
When Silence Speaks Louder Than Words
The Hobbit: A Much-Anticipated Prequel
Mainstream Media Battle For Our Attention
Spin Doctor: Kim Jong-Il’s Sick Executive Production
Scary Viewpoints: Entertain Them or Bury Them?
Occupy The Walls
Wake Of Liberty: 20 – Long Live The King
Rick Perry: Weak
Know Your Rights – Because They Are Not Set In Stone
Images And Soundbites That Changed The World: Carl Sagan
A Starling Performance – On Idyllic Backdrops
New World Order: Out Of Many, One – And Trans-National
Food For Thought: Good And Evil
Wake Of Liberty: 19 – Changing Of The Guard
3D Printing: Getting Organ-ized
Buddhism, Tiger-Style
Wake Of Liberty: 18 – Under Surveillance
The Internet: Little Brother’s Greatest Weapon
Orwell’s Six Rules – With A Pinch Of Salt And Paprika
Food For Thought: The Power Of Words And Labels
Wake Of Liberty Supplements: The Pros And Cons Of Human Rights
Wake Of Liberty: 17 – Eye In The Sky
New World Order: The Evolving Agency Of Markets
Spin Doctor: Is Less More? Part 3
Wake Of Liberty: 16 – We The People
Catch-22 Crisis: The Cotton-tative Loop Of Crazies – Part 5 of 5
Java Rhinos Near Extinction
Spin Doctor: Is Less More? Not If We Don’t Come Clean – Part 2
Catch-22 Crisis: Who, Me? – Part 4 of 5
Catch-22 Crisis: The Toxic Trace – Part 3 of 5
Catch-22 Crisis: The Grand Plan – Part 2 of 5
Catch-22 Crisis: Bail Out With A Handkerchief – Part 1 of 5
Is Less More? Part.1
Revolutionary v Revolting: The Price Of Anger
Wake Of Liberty: 15 – On Rebels And Tyrants
It’s One Absurdly Beautiful Life Campaign
Know Your Rights
Observe And Learn: In Light Of The Evidence
Wake Of Liberty: 14 – Caveat Indagator
Republican Pecking Order: 2012
Allegory Of The Cave: Coming To Our Senses Through Equilibrium And Contact
Wake Of Liberty: 13 – Safe But Not Sound
Catch-22: We Must Be Crazy
Wake Of Liberty: 12 – Underground
Soundbites That Changed The World: Neil Armstrong
Wake Of Liberty: 11 – Off With Their Heads
Wake Of Liberty: 10 – The Spin Behind Good And Evil
A Liter Of Light
Observe And Learn: Greetings, Your Tinyness, Pt. 3
Observe And Learn: Greetings, Your Tinyness, Pt. 2
Observe And Learn: Greetings, Your Tinyness, Pt. 1
Flight Of The ISS
Wake Of Liberty: 9 – Captive Audience
Observe And Learn: Greetings, Your Madness
Wake Of Liberty: 8.5 – Supplements
Energy: Apple Of Many Eyes
Wake Of Liberty: 8 – Noble Savage vs. Savage Noble
Wake Of Liberty: 7 – Changing Times
Thrive: Both Movie And Movement – A Preview
Wake Of Liberty: 6 – In God And King We Trust No More
Wake Of Liberty: 5 – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Soundbites That Change The World
To Tax Or Not To Tax: As Little As Possible
9/11: Ten Years On
Wake Of Liberty: 4 – Bon Appétit, Bon Voyage
RSANIMATE: What Motivates Us
Flamingo Rising
Lost Causes: Something Worth Fighting For
Wake Of Liberty: 3 – Brioche, Diamonds, Incest
Spin Doctor: The World Is Like A Pint Glass
Revolutionary v Revolting: This Little Insurgent Went To Market
Wake Of Liberty: 2 – And Then There Was Light
Religion And Non-Religion: Denominations Of A Greater Currency
Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Wake Of Liberty: 1 – Flicker In The Dark
Urban Phone Apps: Shopping Groceries
Wake Of Liberty: Prologue
When The Knife Cuts Too Deep
To Tax Or Not To Tax: Daylight Robbery
Preface to Wake Of Liberty: The Noble Savage Revolution
Spin Doctor: Cooperation Is Competition’s Armor
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 9-10. Downfall, Death, Legacy
To Tax Or Not To Tax: Warren Buffett Breaks The Piñata
Global Snapshots: Hebrides, Scotland
Athens: From democracy To Hemlock – 7-8. War With Sparta And The Voice Of Socrates
Observe And Learn: Fly Me To The Moon
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 6. The Golden Age
Spin Doctor: Unholy Baloney
Phoenix Swallowed By Haboob
Sleight Of Hand
Freewheel Burning
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 5. Against All Odds
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 4. Persians Land At Marathon
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 3. Democracy Is Born
Global Snapshots: Color Me Bright
Greece in Crisis: En Garde
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 2. Rise Of An Economic Power
Baraka
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock – 1. Flash Of Inspiration
Observe And Learn: Life Beyond Our Own
Tragedy Of The Commons
Athens: From Democracy To Hemlock, An Introduction
The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes
The End Of Humanity?
Spin Doctor: In The Invisible And Unaccountable We Trust No More
And Now For Something Completely Different: Animusic
The World’s Revolutions: Open Society 2.0 – With A Pinch Of Salt
Killer Tunes
Global Snapshots: Metropol Parasol, Seville
Impossible Is Not: Team Argon, Austria
Etched On The Wall
Economic Sonderweg?
Totally Outrageous? Think Again! – Putting The Pando In Pandora
The World’s Revolutions: One Hell Of A Spin
Global Snapshots: Koh Panyee, Thailand
A Touch Of Magic
Observe And Learn: Depth Of Field
It’s The Economists, Stupid
The World’s Revolutions
Observe And Learn: The Big Question
Public Enemy Number One No More
Calm Down, Dear Everyone
Impossible Is Not: Finland
Syria Catching Fire
Rising To The Occasion
RSAnimate: Smile Or Die
Zombies On The Loose
Pulling A Zaphod
We Are Gullible I Tell You!
Bursting Bubbles
Let The Sun Shine
Frozen In Time: The Nicosia International Airport
Observe And Learn: Entangled
Thunderstruck
Nuclear Boy Is Sick
Observe And Learn: The Urge To Record And Transmit
Days That Shook The World
Rock-Paper-Scissors
Riders On The Storm: Jim Morrison
Glass Ceiling Redefined
Two And A Half Standards
Jamahiriya Now Redux
Life Versus Shadow
A Normal Day
Lara Logan And The Tahrir Square Sexual Assault
The Catcher In The Rye: Reviewed
I, Cyborg: Motion To Progress
RSAnimate: The Secret Powers Of Time
9 Hours Of Function And Style
Out Of Nothing: From Spray Paint To Space
A Word Is Worth A Thousand Pages
From The Belly Of The Beast
More Than Words
I, Cyborg: Ghosts In The Machine
Jon’s Daily Show: Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge
Russia’s Ark
Observe And Learn: I, Cyborg. Part Two (One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Machine)
Observe And Learn: I, Cyborg. Part One (We Are What We’re Made Of?)
Observe And Learn: We Have A Dream
Observe And Learn: Paradise Lost, Gained, Or In The Making?
Observe And Learn: Putting Life In Perspective
Observe And Learn: I Think, Therefore Everything Is
Observe And Learn: The Unbearable Lightness Of Seeing
Observe And Learn: Life As We Don’t Yet Know It
Observe And Learn: The Panopticon
Observe And Learn: The Magic Of Paying Attention
Artificial Intelligents
In-Kogito
The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ: Book Review
Bad Development
Terror Made Fun (Of)
Elder Brother’s Warning
Make The Omelet
Burka-BAN
De Wilderbeast or de Scapegeert? Revamp
Lucky Number 19?
De Wilderbeast or de Scapegeert 2.0
The Great Mall Of China
Revolution
Boris, Bikers, and the Ninnie State
Company Promotes Insidious Brain Scarring
Mosque on Ground Zero: Is It Really Such A Great Idea?