Trans Megathread for the Week of 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-12 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named "Kern's World", where the plan is to release monkeys le-monke infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern's World hoping to find paradise.

also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good

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Having to take language classes for my degree might actually break the my horrible procrastination on learning Spanish. Then again, I've always been bad at learning languages and especially speaking them, so it could also just be a way to tank my GPA.
- I strongly strongly strongly recommend Language Transfer for learning Spanish as an Anglophone. It's based around transferring language principles from English to Spanish.
  
  I'm a school teacher working with mostly hispanic immigrants and I was able to have useful conversations with my students after about 4 hours of mindfully listening to the lessons.
  
  That sounds promising, thank you!
- Intrinsic motivation is "better" than extrinsic motivation, but extrinsic motivation is "better" than no motivation.
  
  I think. I was a pretty terrible student

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