by Mark Douglas | Aug 22, 2026 | Member Exclusive, President's Column
Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1617. Paul van Somer I, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for his National Basketball Association team, the Philadelphia Warriors, as part of a 169-147 victory over the New York Knicks....
by Mark Douglas | May 30, 2026 | President's Column, Member Exclusive
Photo credit: LightFieldStudios/Envato This is my first official “President’s Column” because this is the first SciTech† edition to come out since I was elected president of PASTCF. And I chose to devote the inaugural column written in my new role to laying out some...
by Mark Douglas | Feb 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: smile23/Envato I first met Arnold Rots at a bar. That was mostly empty. In a hotel. In the middle of the afternoon. And before either of us was an officer for PASTCF. Okay: that sounds more sinister—or at least more disreputable—than it actually was....
by Mark Douglas | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Over the past decade or so, Columbia Theological Seminary (CTS) has embarked on a pair of significant and institution-wide projects. One involved taking account of the seminary’s complicity in long histories of racism and injustice in the American South. Toward that...
by Mark Douglas | Sep 14, 2024 | Have You Read?
Kate Crawford. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. REVIEWED BY MARK DOUGLAS, PASTCF VICE PRESIDENT In the days before the internet, I sometimes needed a map to drive to an unfamiliar...