Author: Carlo DenzaOriginal Publication Date: 07/10/2021Translator: Tara Lie Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy (USA, 1986, Paramount Pictures): “The starship ‘U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701’ and its crew, led by Admiral James Tiberius Kirk, tasked with the exploration of new worlds and researching new civilisations, is forced to embark on a risky journey back in time. The objective: return to Earth, to 20th-century California, to solve complex energy and environmental issues. The mission entrusted to the crew by Starfllet is to recover and transport two of the last whale specimens to the 23rd century, to try to save their

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie Hacker culture was brought to life thanks to computer scientist Richard Greenblatt and mathematician Bill Gosper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It all started at MIT’s famous Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), which we discussed in a previous article. Today, I would like to talk about programmer and computer scientist Richard Greenblatt, born on Christmas day 1944 in Portland, Oregon. Greenblatt was an expert chess player, and from nine years old he would take apart old radios and televisions to figure out how they worked internally. He would also build amplifiers, modulators, oscilloscopes and