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RATS IN SHADOW
There are rats in our house!! A nest of rats have made their home in our house, and we don’t care. Let them hide, let them breed, in fact we are going to hide them and encourage more. They love the darkness, so we will let them, hide in shadow. After all, if we give them light, we might see the true scope of the infestation. Do we want to know? Do we need to know? And why are we protecting the rats, that spread plague?
By Alexandra Grant22 days ago in Humans
Jacqueline Jackson is an example of a wife who honored her wedding vows.
Jacqueline Jackson is now the widow of Jesse Jackson, who was a preacher, and a controversial civil rights leader, and a politician. This picture speaks a thousand words to many other widows and me. The Jacksons were married for 63 years, and through all of their challenges, they remained together. This is not easy when one is in the public eye.
By Cheryl E Preston22 days ago in History
I Had $3 in My Bank Account… Then This One Decision Changed Everything in 30 Days
I had $3.17 in my bank account, a maxed-out credit card, and a quiet panic I couldn’t admit to anyone. If you’ve ever refreshed your banking app hoping the number would magically change… you know that feeling.
By Ahmed aldeabella22 days ago in Psyche
The Film Project “Share (!) Yourself” 2020
From Script to Structure: The Film Project “Share (!) Yourself” In 2020 the screenplay competition organised by “The Palace / The Palace of the Happy People” gathered nearly one hundred texts from across Bulgaria. What began as a typical selection process quickly turned into an intensive reading marathon. Producer Dimitar Gochev and Dr. Peter Ayolov carefully examined every submission — not simply evaluating technical correctness, but searching for cinematic potential: the possibility that a text could become a film rather than remain literature.
By Peter Ayolov22 days ago in Art
Fumfer Physics 41: Time-Reversed Black Holes and White Holes
In a late-night thought experiment, Scott Douglas Jacobsen recalls opening a quantum cosmology conference in Baku alongside Edward Witten and Leonard Susskind. He asks whether a “time-reversed” black hole could exist—like a pencil balanced on its tip for eons: lawful, but fantastically unlikely. Rick Rosner argues anomalies require a stabilizing mechanism: agency, control systems, and engineered conditions, much like quantum computers holding fragile superpositions or laboratories sustaining fusion. They extend the logic to speculative warp travel and to “white holes,” the general-relativistic time-reverse of eternal black holes, while noting the real physics ultimately hinges on horizons, entropy, and information preservation.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen22 days ago in Interview
Wikimedia reviews begging approach
Do you ever wonder why some stories or articles you write and publish online get more reader interest than others? I do, and sometimes the reason is obvious, sometimes not. Of course we expect our best work to get the most attention, but sometimes it does not. Sometimes we write about something that gets much more interest than we had anticipated. Why?
By Raymond G. Taylor22 days ago in 01
