I'll be filling in on Progressive Solutions tomorrow from noon to 2pm, while I will play some cool music and read some news the real treat (no trick) will be Paul Levinson calling in during the 1pm hour where we will talk the news of the day and the fallout from the recent swearing in of the new Supreme court justice.

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PAUL LEVINSON, PHD, IS PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION & MEDIA STUDIES AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY IN NYC. HIS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS INCLUDE THE SILK CODE (WINNER OF LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF 1999), BORROWED TIDES (2001), THE CONSCIOUSNESS PLAGUE (2002), THE PIXEL EYE (2003), THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES (2006), UNBURNING ALEXANDRIA (2013), AND CHRONICA (2014) – THE LAST THREE OF WHICH ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE SIERRA WATERS TRILOGY, AND ARE HISTORICAL FICTION AS WELL AS SCIENCE FICTION. HIS STORIES AND NOVELS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR HUGO, NEBULA, STURGEON, EDGAR, PROMETHEUS, AND AUDIE AWARDS. HIS NONFICTION BOOKS, INCLUDING THE SOFT EDGE (1997), DIGITAL MCLUHAN (1999), REALSPACE (2003), CELLPHONE (2004), NEW NEW MEDIA (2009; 2ND EDITION, 2012), MCLUHAN IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (2015), FAKE NEWS IN REAL CONTEXT (2016), AND CYBER WAR AND PEACE (2017), HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO TWELVE LANGUAGES. HE CO-EDITED TOUCHING THE FACE OF THE COSMOS: ON THE INTERSECTION OF SPACE TRAVEL AND RELIGION IN 2016. HE APPEARS ON CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, NPR, AND NUMEROUS TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. HIS 1972 LP, TWICE UPON A RHYME, WAS RE-ISSUED IN 2010. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA, 1998-2001. HE REVIEWS TELEVISION IN HIS INFINITEREGRESS.TV BLOG, AND WAS LISTED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION’S “TOP 10 ACADEMIC TWITTERERS” IN 2009.

Bibliography: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?699
https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/