7/2/2023 0 Comments Larry niven ring world![]() ![]() ![]() The thing is supposedly a million miles wide, 93 million miles in radius and thus around 600m miles long. It's an advanced form of a Dyson sphere: a huge, ring-shaped planet built by design rather than nature. The Ringworld in question is not whatever filthy thought came to your mind when you first registered the book's naive title but one of science fiction's most successful Big Dumb Objects. Niven's ideas have played a part in the lives of millions of people and helped console games on the way to being among the most important and impressive cultural artefacts of our time. The Ringworld of the book's title is a direct ancestor of the Halo system that in turn provided the name for the Xbox killer app. As well as having had a huge impact on nearly all subsequent space operas (Iain M Banks' Culture series and Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns are just two), the book has helped generate a multi-billion-dollar industry. ![]() Larry Niven's 1970 Hugo award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past 50 years. ![]()
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7/2/2023 0 Comments The life you can save book![]() ![]() ![]() Still willing to spend money on a luxury (bottled water) when you could instead save – or at least greatly improve – a real person’s life? And if you choose not to save that life, can you believe you’re truly living a moral life? ![]() (Lest you insist that it’s cheaper to live in poor countries, the World Bank has already adjusted that into what it would feel like to live in the US on $1.25 a day.) Imagine doubling a person’s income by forgoing that bottle of water! A luxury, no? Contrast that to the fact that 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people live on that same amount – $1.25 – each day, failing miserably to meet all their human needs for food, shelter, medical care, education, etc. Hold that thought, and look for a moment at that $1.25 bottle of water or soda sitting on your desk, not far from an abundant source of safe tap water. Would you stop and save the child? Is it wrong not to help the child because you don’t want to ruin your new shoes? Is a life worth more than shoes? Let’s start with a hypothetical: You’re walking past a shallow pond, where a child is drowning with no one around to help. Be warned: Reading this book may be dangerous to your definitions of morality, charity, and how to be good. ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments Dominic by la casey![]() ![]() ![]() 337/2011 – European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Universal Service and Users' Rights) Regulations 2011, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this ebook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite book retailer and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. ![]() This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Book formatting by White Hot Ebook Formatting ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments Wyrd sisters book![]() ![]() At one point she was denied admittance to Catholic nursing schools because of her race, and later endured segregation policies at the white-led order of sisters she joined in St. An Associated Press photo of Ebo and other nuns in the march on March 10 - three days after Bloody Sunday - ran on the front pages of many newspapers.ĭuring two decades before Selma, Ebo faced repeated struggles to break down racial barriers. ![]() ![]() Yet one of them, Sister Mary Antona Ebo, was on the front lines of marchers who gathered in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 in support of Black voting rights and in protest of the violence of Bloody Sunday when white state troopers brutally dispersed peaceful Black demonstrators. In the 1960s, Williams writes, Black nuns were often discouraged or blocked by their white superiors from engaging in the civil rights struggle. Some of the most detailed passages in “Subversive Habits” recount the Jim Crow era, extending from the 1870s through the 1950s, when Black nuns were not spared from the segregation and discrimination endured by many other African Americans. ![]() Some current members of the Oblate Sisters of Providence help run Saint Frances Academy, a high school serving low-income Black neighborhoods. Even as the number of American nuns – of all races – shrinks relentlessly, that Baltimore order founded in 1829 remains intact, continuing its mission to educate Black youths. ![]() 7/1/2023 0 Comments Fantastic four full circle![]() ![]() ![]() Ross uses the pair’s seminal 1966 story “This Man… This Monster” as a jumping-off point for his own tale, pitting Reed Richards, Sue Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm against an inter-dimensional baddie with ties to their past. Written and illustrated by fan-favourite artist Alex Ross, Fantastic Four: Full Circle is the first instalment in publisher Abram’s Marvel Arts line and picks up pretty much where Stan and Jack left off. We’ll never know for sure, however, chances are it would’ve looked a lot like Fantastic Four: Full Circle. In the decades since, fans have often speculated where Lee and Kirby would’ve taken the comic book series next, had their partnership not ended. ![]() Fantastic Four creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s legendary run on the title ended in 1970 after Kirby left Marvel Comics for rival DC. ![]() |