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Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to his congregation in Montgomery, Alabama said: I think the first reason that we should love our enemies…is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me [...] Watch me give a talk on cosmology! Video and slides are available using a flash or windows media presentation or mp3+PDF: Lost In The Observational Cosmology Lab. The talk was the inaugural lecture of Perimeter Institute’s Young Researchers Symposium. I spoke to some grad students + 1 postdoc + 1 visiting Harvard professor/friend of mine about cosmology [...] Paul and I agreed that my latest post on IGT would be an interesting contribution, although there was some equivocation about whether people would respond to it maturely. Well, let’s see! Check out my article White Self Indulgence which is a meditation on music, race and fandom: So tonight, I’m gonna find a way to make it without you. Have you ever tried sleeping with a broken heart? The first line is from Alicia Keys’s “Sleeping with a Broken [...] Thursday 4 February 2010 Dear Congress, As an American who has been living abroad and who was excited about coming home to visit, I have a simple question: What kind of fuckery is this? It turned out that today I needed some medical assistance, and getting it was almost more painful than the actual physical problem. And, [...] My latest public piece of writing is an essay on Pasadena at Is Greater Than: During those trips, I dreamed of Pasadena and its sprawling lawns. I dreamed of a car with fancy automated locks and windows that had ventilation in the back. I dreamed of living far enough from the freeway that I couldn’t hear [...] All together now, let’s breath a sigh of relief that such a website does not exist. At least not as far as Google can tell me. A search for the words “brainy black bitches” pulls up the website, “MY BLACK SLUTS,” a pornography site with its own set of linguistic problems that I won’t get [...] Recently, it was proudly announced, “GOOD NEWS! Women are doing well in astronomy!” But,if you look at the data, that fantastic news is really only for white women. And as Sojourner Truth said, ain’t I a woman? Below I give an example of what I mean. Something I am leaving out of the discussion — [...] If you’re a man reading this, this is what you have to do: you have to make your male friends uncomfortable. You have to bring up this subject out of the blue and tell them everything I just told you. You should especially quiz them on some of the recommendations on the rape prevention list. [...] The “no means no” mantra that Holmquist is railing against is itself pretty old-school. “No means no” operates on the outdated assumption that men are the “scorers,” women are the “gatekeepers,” and the goal of every sexual encounter is for men to sneak past a woman’s line of defense and get her to not say [...] |
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