- Rachel Maddow takes on the “Scare White People” tactics of the right. That this is a tried and tested method for securing votes is only slightly less disheartening than the fact that it seems to be working even today. [via]
- Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, whose story “Mouse and I” appears in the April 2010 issue of Kaleidotrope, writes about finding her voice as a Filipino science fiction writer:
I found myself thinking, yet again, on what kind of science fiction a Filipino would write, and how a writer can break free from being someone who emulates the works of writers he or she has admired to become a person who writes with a voice and with a story that comes from the writer’s own soul.
What things influence the Filipino writer then? What’s our backstory? How can I as a writer coming from a country that has been so colonialized and that is still trapped in a colonial mindset free myself so I can write the fictions that only I can write?
- She also shares a really terrific talk on “The Danger of a Single Story” by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
- Apparently there is no gravity [via] and time is disappearing from the universe. [via] Or at least, those are some theories.
- And finally, I don’t know if this story, about a Bosnian man who claims to have been hit by meteorites six times, is made more or less strange by the possibility that it’s all a hoax.
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Will the gravity and disappearing time stories scare me like the giant earth-killing methane bubble story did? Because I’m not sure I can handle another existential crisis just now.
I wouldn’t worry about the methane bubble killing us all.
So, “The stars aren’t accelerating apart, it’s just that as time slows down, the change in ‘light years’ makes it seem that way?” Christ, I thought of that in High School, where’s my article DailyGalaxy?
The galaxies are definitely moving apart. It’s just a question of whether their movement is speeding up or not.