A grant a month for a story about labor
Storytelling can help answer these questions. So today I’m announcing an experiment: I’m giving a $1,800 grant every month, to fund stories about organized worker power. Riffing on the Economic Security Project’s short story contest about universal basic income that I supported a few years ago, I want to encourage many more stories to help us imagine, assess, and move forward.
If you have a story to tell that fits into this broad lane, you can apply here. Together with some friends (more on them below), we’ll pick a winner each month — and we’ll keep all the entrants confidential. You can submit anytime.

This paper explores the physics of the what-if question "what if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries?" While the assumption may be absurd, the consequences can be explored rigorously using elementary physics. The result is not entirely dissimilar to a small ocean-world exoplanet. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553

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