These are mostly about getting the details of guns, injuries, and forensic evidence right, rather than anything to do with writing as such. But getting those things wrong will lose a proportion of your readers, who will no longer trust you. If you can’t get reality right, they won’t be prepared to suspend disbelief for your fiction.
Originally shared by Writers Write
Delivery drones don’t have to be short-haul.
Originally shared by Judah Richardson
Volans-i’s drones are able to travel for up to 500 miles carrying 20 pounds of cargo at a time at a top speed of 200 miles per hour. (A delivery from Los Angeles to San Francisco would take three to four hours.) They are able to do this by employing fixed wings along with vertical-take-off-and-landing systems for flight, and both batteries and fuel for propulsion.
Because the Volans-i drones can take off or land on any flat 15-by-15 foot platform, the company and its customers don’t have to build any special infrastructure to make or take deliveries.
The kids seem to be taking the right message from the principal’s actions: they’re resisting him and exposing his high-handed interference.
On another topic, the ads I’m seeing on BoingBoing are disturbing. “This beauty was born to make you happy!” No, I’m sure she has her own reason to exist and her own thing going on. After all, she is a person.
Originally shared by Boing Boing
Texas high-school principal fires award-winning, nationally famous journalism teacher to rein in critical student newspaper reporting
Via Keith Wilson.
Originally shared by George Station
I take decent #fantasy & #scifi articles where I can get them. The Monitor came through.
Big, if true; carbon nanotubes are an amazing material with all kinds of useful properties. The actual percentage impact on atmospheric CO2 is surely minimal, though.
Originally shared by C. A. Wilke
High-quality carbon nanotubes made from carbon dioxide in the air break the manufacturing cost barrier | Kurzweil
For those interested in SCIENCE-y things… This could be huge. Like invention-of-mass-production-huge… as in something that could very well change most aspects of technology. Carbon nanotubes are such weird and interesting things and have a ridiculous amount of potential uses from power storage to stronger-than-steel materials, even super-fast computers.
via Adam Cross
You might think everyone knows this, but you would be wrong.
Originally shared by Karen Conlin
Every time I think it’s useless to rehash basic GUMmy stuff, something happens to prove me wrong. This time it was seeing an incorrectly formed plural possessive of a proper noun in a published children’s book. I saw red. So, I’m writing what’s sure to…
Originally shared by Will Shetterly
Reminding us that there often isn’t just one solution to a big problem. There are various solutions that attack different parts of it.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
5 Organizations Using Cool Tech Solutions and Research to Clean Up the Oceans https://suhub.co/2rYtuSL
Via private share. Just because travel was slow and hard and sometimes dangerous didn’t mean that there wasn’t plenty of long-distance trade going on in the Middle Ages.
Nowhere near an actual self-aware android yet, of course, but a step in that direction.
Originally shared by Judah Richardson
Meet Sophia, a social robot created by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson. Modeled in part after Audrey Hepburn and Hanson’s wife, the robot was built to mimic social behaviors and inspire feelings of love and compassion in humans.