December 2011
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in the midst of these clusterfucks
i can’t help but just stop and step aside and say, look at this remarkable combination of emotions and experiences and genetic material, weeping, loving, et al. after all of these centuries, feeling something an ancient greek poet spilled from lip, under the same sun, on the same little mote of planetary dust that begat creatures that can wonder at themselves and know time.
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My ongoing thing for smart women: Have Sex With... →
fuckyeahnerdpr0n:
Have a thing for those green-skinned Orion slave girls Captain Kirk cavorts with on Star Trek? Think Na’vi babes are really hot? You’re in luck. Famous Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof is opening a new whorehouse with an all science fiction theme.
He’s calling it the Area 51 Alien Cathouse…
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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society, 1989 (via moebius-stripper)
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three of my friends got engaged yesterday
and all i want from my boyfriend is the book “postcolonialism and science fiction” and a pizza. are they crazy, or am i?
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Scholarly conference to deal with the legal status of robots
Lawyers and policy wonks with a futurist bent are advised to take note. The University of Miami School of Law is organizing a conference called “We Robot: Inaugural Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Relating to Robotics.” They’re seeking scholars, lawyers, and roboticists who want to discuss a topic that will...
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postcolonialism and science fiction
“How, then, can a genre so steeped in, so built upon, the Stranger and the Strange Land in its diegetic reality work to undo them in our consensus reality, what Darko Suvin calls our “zero world”? Rather than shying away from these colonial tropes, these twin giants of the science fiction world, postcolonial science fiction hybridizes them, parodies them and/or mimics...
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maladie d'un fou: One teacher's approach to... →
rosalarian:
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it….
amazing.
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whenever people try to declaim native rights
by saying that “the native peoples of north america were immigrants to the continent, too” i’m like
you must be referring to the migration of paleo-indians that occurred prior to 8500 BCE, the year that evidence of my tribe appeared on this continent. i’d say a civilization formed before, oh, mesopotamia sets some room for ownership precedent, wouldn’t you? so,...
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Four New Species of Bees Found in New York →
insectlove:
vanisherbee: Lasioglossum gotham — is about the size of a grain of rice and lives in compact underground nests.
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watching the simpsons
Marge: You invited me into your treehouse? That's like Bruce Wayne inviting his mother into the Batcave.
Me: His MOTHER is DEAD, MARGE!
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