By “stories”, the writer here means nonfiction pieces on science.
Originally shared by Conscious Style Guide
“Finding diverse sources, and tracking them, takes time, but not that much time. I reckon it adds 15 minutes per piece, or an hour or so of effort over a week.”
#gender
[Image: Three people wearing white lab coats talk together in a well-lit office.]
Plenty of story fodder here.
As well as the haves and the have-nots, I also like to think about the “don’t wants” – the people who reject a new technology for various reasons. How does that impact their lives and the lives of people who accept the technology? Do they act as a reservoir of people who are safe when the tech goes horribly wrong, or are they a drag on progress? Or both?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
The Power to Upgrade Our Own Biology Is in Sight—But Is Society Ready for Human Enhancement? http://suhub.co/2HeHNJP
Are you putting enough old people in your near-future SF? How healthy are they?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
We Read This 800-Page Report on the State of Longevity Research So You Don’t Have To http://suhub.co/2Eq0bOi
Originally shared by Samantha Dunaway Bryant
Since I’m teaching a creative writing class for a local community college right now, a lot of this struck home.
I don’t know that I necessarily buy all of these arguments, although there’s some merit to the idea that, when your car is a mobile office/living room, you’ll want it to be your car so you can fill it with your stuff.
One of my yet-to-be-developed post-cyberpunk story ideas involves a “fixer” character who’s permanently on the move in a driverless pod, where he lives and works. You don’t find him; you put out the word, and he finds you.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Why the Rise of Self-Driving Vehicles Will Actually Increase Car Ownership http://suhub.co/2F34kZy
I did an improv class a few years ago, and found it an excellent way to free myself up and increase my confidence and ability to flow in the moment. This guy teaches improv to students and businesspeople.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How to Unlock Creative Collaboration With Presence and Play http://suhub.co/2F1hlTh
Interesting thoughts here about “windows and mirrors”: mirrors show you people like yourself and enable you to imagine yourself as a protagonist; windows show you the lives of people different from yourself and develop insight and empathy.
Originally shared by Conscious Style Guide
It’s a lot harder to assault women or take away the rights of transgender people when you have empathized with their full humanity. Boys (and also, everyone else) must read books as windows into the lives of others.
#gender
[Image: A student wearing a backpack, walks down a car-lined street, with head down and hand on back of neck.]
Dude has guts.
Originally shared by HACKADAY
It takes guts to pop a pill containing a genetically engineered virus to cure lactose intolerance. But did it work?
Would you pop a homemade pill containing genetically engineered virus particles just so that you can enjoy a pizza? Not many people would, but then again, if you’ve experienced the violent reaction to lactose that some people have, you just might consider…
http://hackaday.com/2018/02/14/biohacking-lactose-intolerance/
Grammar Girl is useful and thorough, as ever.
Originally shared by Grammar Girl
9 Ways to Use an Apostrophe http://ow.ly/1J5u30ikXPk
Here’s another piece on the densified wood discovery, with a link to the original paper in Nature.
Originally shared by HACKADAY
Wood as strong as steel? Just remove the lignin, squish, bake, and serve!
Wood is surely one of the most versatile materials available. It can be found in a huge variety of colours and physical properties depending on the variety of the tree that grew it, and it has been fashioned into all conceivable devices, products, and…
http://hackaday.com/2018/02/12/need-strength-its-modified-wood-you-want/