Originally shared by David Brin

Scientists are making some progress in learning how to manipulate the microbiome, a realm that I predict will bring the 21st Century’s first truly major medical transformations – because the array of bacteria living within us, while large and complex, is inherently linear and ought to be well-corelated, soon, with genes, body types, diet and lifestyle. Already there are pushes to alter many longstanding practices, as described in Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/findings-from-the-gut-new-insights-into-the-human-microbiome1

Do you know of SFF people being excellent to one another or to others? Let Jim Hines know.

Originally shared by Jim Hines

http://www.jimchines.com/2016/04/help-me-share-the-awesome-side-of-sff/

Serious question: Do organizations tend to evolve in the direction of bureaucracy because that’s inherent to how people work, or just because we’re used to working that way? And how might we stop that from happening, in either case?

Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette

Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, According to a New Study http://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-is-basically-a-corporate-bureaucracy-accordi-1746955234 …

http://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-is-basically-a-corporate-bureaucracy-accordi-1746955234

Via Winchell Chung. I have a mid-future solarpunk setting currently cooking, and in the first story I’ve started for it, the main character’s mother runs the cattle vats for the vertical village.

Originally shared by Transhumanism Videos

http://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-burger-patty-cost-drops-from-325-000-to-12