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Every few months like clockwork, it happens again: the never-ending debate over Strong Female Characters. [Editors Note: io9 is proud to publish this guest post today from io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. -Jill P.] At this point, its become a cliche, and an in-joke, and a T-shirt, and a comic, yeezy slide and still we debate endlessly what it means for women to be strong in our media stories鈥攅specially science fiction and fantasy stories. And whether this kind of strength is a good thing. Most recently, this excellent piece by Kellie Herson at The Outline talks about the idea of womens agency and whether its always a reliable yardstick of whether a story is feminist. Ive touched on this yeezy topic a bunch in the past, including in this piece for io9. But lately Ive been thinking that what I really want is not strong female and trans/non-binary characters, but rather, complicated characters. I want characters, of all possible genders, who have complicated emotional lives. Characters who make mistakes, and screw up, and hurt people, and learn from their disasters. Lets just start off by acknowledging that most of us apart from some whiny trolls, who are best ignored want the same thing: characters t yeezy hat we can obsess about. Fictional people who have rich enough stories to inspire tons of fanfic and fan debates and cosplay and memes and everything else. We all want characters who feel alive鈥攁nd we dont want them all to be just white dudes. And 8230;thats part of the trouble wi Bzao The Walking Dead Crew Finally Faces A Foe They Can t Decapitate
In the ongoing search for a non-nuclear energy, Fukushima could find a partial answer in living, green, microalgae. And algae can help the rest of the world, too. A Japanese think tank tells the Asahi Shimbun newspaper that universities and other groups in the area are working to mass produce an algae native to Fukushima. The coastal prefecture in northern Japan suffered nuclear meltdown following the massive earthquake in 2011. Algae sucks in carbon dioxide to produce natural oil, making it an attractive biofuel. Tests have apparently shown that the Fukushima algae is able to survive cold winters, which gives algae an edge over other alternative biofuels based on corn. We previously reported about the joys of algae: It sucks in carbon emissions, theres no import cost, it grows at lightning fast rates, and can produce 60 times more oil per acre than plant salomon hombre s grown on land. Th af1 e biggest problem, whether were talking Japan, the US, or anywhere else, is that algae reebok de is extremely expensive. In the case of Fukushima, a liter of algae oil costs up to 300 yen, or around $2.50. That number needs to be chopped down to 100 yen around 83 cents for this venture to be viable from a money standpoint, Asahi Shimbun says. Algae isnt the only alternative energy Fukushimas been seeking out in recent years. Wind power is another one: Back in June, the worlds largest floating wind turbine was completed in Fukushima, part of a larger plan to beef up wind power there. Of course, nuclear energy st
Every few months like clockwork, it happens again: the never-ending debate over Strong Female Characters. [Editors Note: io9 is proud to publish this guest post today from io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. -Jill P.] At this point, its become a cliche, and an in-joke, and a T-shirt, and a comic, yeezy slide and still we debate endlessly what it means for women to be strong in our media stories鈥攅specially science fiction and fantasy stories. And whether this kind of strength is a good thing. Most recently, this excellent piece by Kellie Herson at The Outline talks about the idea of womens agency and whether its always a reliable yardstick of whether a story is feminist. Ive touched on this yeezy topic a bunch in the past, including in this piece for io9. But lately Ive been thinking that what I really want is not strong female and trans/non-binary characters, but rather, complicated characters. I want characters, of all possible genders, who have complicated emotional lives. Characters who make mistakes, and screw up, and hurt people, and learn from their disasters. Lets just start off by acknowledging that most of us apart from some whiny trolls, who are best ignored want the same thing: characters t yeezy hat we can obsess about. Fictional people who have rich enough stories to inspire tons of fanfic and fan debates and cosplay and memes and everything else. We all want characters who feel alive鈥攁nd we dont want them all to be just white dudes. And 8230;thats part of the trouble wi Bzao The Walking Dead Crew Finally Faces A Foe They Can t Decapitate
In the ongoing search for a non-nuclear energy, Fukushima could find a partial answer in living, green, microalgae. And algae can help the rest of the world, too. A Japanese think tank tells the Asahi Shimbun newspaper that universities and other groups in the area are working to mass produce an algae native to Fukushima. The coastal prefecture in northern Japan suffered nuclear meltdown following the massive earthquake in 2011. Algae sucks in carbon dioxide to produce natural oil, making it an attractive biofuel. Tests have apparently shown that the Fukushima algae is able to survive cold winters, which gives algae an edge over other alternative biofuels based on corn. We previously reported about the joys of algae: It sucks in carbon emissions, theres no import cost, it grows at lightning fast rates, and can produce 60 times more oil per acre than plant salomon hombre s grown on land. Th af1 e biggest problem, whether were talking Japan, the US, or anywhere else, is that algae reebok de is extremely expensive. In the case of Fukushima, a liter of algae oil costs up to 300 yen, or around $2.50. That number needs to be chopped down to 100 yen around 83 cents for this venture to be viable from a money standpoint, Asahi Shimbun says. Algae isnt the only alternative energy Fukushimas been seeking out in recent years. Wind power is another one: Back in June, the worlds largest floating wind turbine was completed in Fukushima, part of a larger plan to beef up wind power there. Of course, nuclear energy st