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Mama Chimera
ABC News: She’s Her Own Twin describes the medical mystery of two women who don’t match their kids’ DNA:
Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her body were her own. “I knew that I carried them, and I knew that I delivered them. There was no doubt in my mind,” Fairchild said.
The solution to this – the women are chimeras, mixing cells from two gentically distinct embryos – is something so damn cool it just begs for someone to incorportate it into a science fiction story, technothriller or mystery. Except it’s so damn outlandish, I expect serious problems with suspension of disbelief if you try and work it into a realistic scenario; better to go for sense of wonder.
What If 9/11 Never Happened? – a collection of scenarios from New York Magazine.
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Write Club
13 Writing Tips by Chuck Palahniuk, ranging from the trite and inspirational:
Number Ten: Write the book you want to read.
To the practical:
Number Eleven: Get author book jacket photos taken now, while you’re young.
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The busy social life of the lurker
David Malki’s webcomic Wondermark popped up apropos his recent strip about air travel terror, but this is the one that made me roflol.
More on blog-reading as a substitute for a social life here (light parody) or here (angsty, itemized lament of modern life, with cartoons of a sad bear).