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April 3, 2016
April 2, 2016
2015 Winners, Honor List, and Long List Announced! « James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award
ODY-C makes the Tiptree shortlist. BP makes the long. Fellow WEFugee and singular wunderkind EJ Fischer wins the dang thing. And there’s so much amazing work on the list. And to be associated with anything Tip is pretty headspinning. Thank you for not being an April fool’s prank.
(Now’s a good time to re-recommend Julie Phillips’ James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon)
intosnarkness:
you all need to take away either my comic books...
you all need to take away either my comic books or my crochet hooks before @mattfractionblog and @zdarsky take out some kind of craft-related restarining order
April 1, 2016
"We start out the 20th Century with a clean slate: we are now the gods. And the greatest thing we..."
We start out the 20th Century with a clean slate: we are now the gods. And the greatest thing we could do as god during that century was…to create the bomb. That’s what we were good at doing.
In the 50s and 60s, the repercussions of what we had done, by standing in for this idea of morality, creating it all ourselves [had] so destroyed our fix on what we’re doing in life, that we’re still living through that chaos right now. We have no spiritual lives to speak of. There are quasi new religio...
esotericworld:
The Shigir Idol“A mysterious wooden idol found...
The Shigir Idol“A mysterious wooden idol found in a Russian peat bog has been dated to 11,000 years ago - and contains a code no one can decipher.
The Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Pyramids and Stonehenge - and is by far the oldest wooden structure in the world.
Even more mysteriously, it is covered in what experts describe as ‘encrypted code’ - a message from a lost civilisation.
Professor Mikhail Zhilin of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archeology said:...
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