Stuck for inspiration in your fantasy? What about a geologically, politically, and linguistically realistic random map to get you going?
Originally shared by Shaun Duke
Fantasy Shaun:
This is so cool!
Aug
17
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Aug
15
A collection of “philosophically interesting” SF recommendations from 48 philosophers, with pitches about why they…
A collection of “philosophically interesting” SF recommendations from 48 philosophers, with pitches about why they are interesting.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/PhilosophicalSF.htm
Aug
15
MIT’s Open Style Lab is developing adaptive wear for those with disabilities.
Originally shared by Arduino
MIT’s Open Style Lab is developing adaptive wear for those with disabilities.
(via Fast Company)
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3062726/the-mit-lab-thats-quietly-pioneering-fashion-for-everyone/1
Aug
12
Via Larry Panozzo.
Via Larry Panozzo.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
The dream of nanomachines traveling your body and repairing it on the cellular level is a little closer thanks to the development of nanoengines and nanorockets. http://bit.ly/2b46cDE
Aug
12
More bad news for VW owners — this time, 100 million of ’em.
Originally shared by ExtremeTech
More bad news for VW owners — this time, 100 million of ’em.
Aug
12
Interesting for a number of reasons: for biography affecting literary output, for the questions it raises about…
Interesting for a number of reasons: for biography affecting literary output, for the questions it raises about “writing the Other,” and for its reminder of shifting societal norms.
Aug
11
Neil Gaiman makes books sound metal:
Neil Gaiman makes books sound metal:
“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”
Aug
11
“What could go wrong?” is often a good starting point for a story.
“What could go wrong?” is often a good starting point for a story. It’s also something designers need to be good at asking themselves.
Originally shared by Damn interesting
https://www.propublica.org/article/looks-can-kill-the-deadly-results-of-flawed-design
Aug
11
There are a lot of these, and they’re very beautiful and cool.
There are a lot of these, and they’re very beautiful and cool. Medieval clockmaking, even early on, was clearly sophisticated.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
http://io9.gizmodo.com/astronomical-clocks-were-a-wonder-of-the-medieval-world-1484069867
Aug
11
Although it doesn’t use the term “Universal Basic Income,” this article describes a possible mechanism (and…
Although it doesn’t use the term “Universal Basic Income,” this article describes a possible mechanism (and justification) for it: corporations profit from free use of resources that belong to all of us in common. If that use is no longer free, but costs money which flows to everyone equally, you have a flow of money to the people who will be most likely to spend it (on, yes, goods which now cost more, but the money keeps on going round).
http://evonomics.com/dont-ditch-capitalism-tax-extractive-side-effects-fuel-growth-barnes/