Not All Time Travelers Want or Need Accessories (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) A completely understandable supposition about time travel, forward or backward, is that travel is only possible with mechanical, magical, or psychotronic assistance. True, this helps consistent travel, but some sentients have absolutely no need or want of technology or thaumaturgy to visit new times. To use the obsolete and inadequate metaphor of…
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St. Remedius Radio: “The Misery of Nostalgia”
A Discussion of the Jeffty Gene (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) When formally recognized and described in 1998, the Jeffty Gene, named after the first individual in the scientific literature with the phenomenon, was a breakthrough in chronal research. Individuals with the gene had the capability, usually manifested in childhood, of bending time progression, keeping them in a semi-pocket of time while normal progression and…
St. Remedius Medical College: “What’s For Dinner?”
The Least Obvious St. Remedius Research Spinoffs Were The Tastiest (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) When collecting and collating the various contributions to local, regional, world, and galactic culture and civilization throughout space-time made through St. Remedius Medical College research programs, one aspect regularly skipped are St. Remedius’s culinary assets. True, most of these were inadvertent side effects of more portentous experiments and responses to…
St. Remedius Medical College: “If It Wasn’t Free, We Couldn’t Give It Away”
Introducing Creative Onanism (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Once upon a time, there was a geologic epoch known as the 1990s. These were the days of the great Journalism Wars, where advertisers realized that the best way to Be Seen was by becoming connected to something “edgy.” Some invested in designer sodas or sponsoring trendy alcohol, and others invested in monthly house magazines. The best…