Category Archives: SFF Thought Starters

Nov 20

Via Charlie Loyd’s newsletter.

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Via Charlie Loyd’s newsletter. The shift away from pollution, like most other major shifts (whether political or personal), is coming not through convincing people of abstract principles, but through demonstrating the benefits of change and immediate, concrete downsides of staying the same. 

http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/05/inside-war-on-coal-000002

Nov 12

Its like those awesome chemstry sets they used to have when I was kid.

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Its like those awesome chemstry sets they used to have when I was kid… not really that powerful, but it let you do some neat experiments. More beakers and test tubes than acids and bases.

THIS kit is something that lets you modify the DNA of simple yeasts and bacteria, with some instructions on some of the more basic experiments.

You won’t be turning yeast into the blob with this kit (er… not without some serious doctorate level work, a lot more equipment, and a complete lack of ethics) but you might make a new kind of sourdough.

http://www.gizmag.com/home-crispr-gene-editing-kit/40362

Nov 09

Some good medical news this week.

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Some good medical news this week.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Physics breakthroughs, new discoveries, and impressive biomedical advancements. The Caltech and gene editing articles are excellent. It’s all in the links below!

• Superposition of Ordered Events

http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-quantum-superposition-events.html

• Life-saving Gene Editing

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28454-gene-editing-saves-life-of-girl-dying-from-leukaemia-in-world-first/

• Reprogramming Neurons

http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-neurons-reprogrammed-animals.html

• Mars Barren Due to Solar Storms

http://futurism.com/links/nasa-says-solar-storms-destroyed-mars-atmosphere-and-water/

• Using DNA in Blood to Track Cancer Development

http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-dna-blood-track-cancer-response.html

• Dissolving Cataracts

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-developed-an-eye-drop-that-can-dissolve-cataracts-from-eyes

• Caltech Finds New Multipolar Order

http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-physicists-uncover-novel-phase-matter-48573

• 3D Printing with Embryonic Stem Cells

http://m.phys.org/news/2015-11-scientists-d-method-capable-highly.html

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Nov 06

Not one, but two drone delivery mechanisms, steel-hard glass, better memory through electronic implants, and…

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Not one, but two drone delivery mechanisms, steel-hard glass, better memory through electronic implants, and self-improving cars.

What a time to be alive.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Highly sensitive artificial skin, a new electric car brand, glass almost as strong as steel, a device that boosts human memory, the success of Tesla’s Autopilot, drone delivery from Google, a robot that delivers groceries for £1, and 3D printed artificial hair! It’s all in the links below!

• Artificial Skin That Detects Texture, Temperature, Pressure, and Sound

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electronic-skin-feels-heat-hears-sound?mode=magazine&context=190830

• Mysterious Electric Car Maker

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674314/faraday-future-electric-car-1-billion-factory

• Unbreakable Glass

http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940

• Memory Boosting Device

http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940

• Tesla Autopilot is Learning

http://electrek.co/2015/10/30/the-autopilot-is-learning-fast-model-s-owners-are-already-reporting-that-teslas-autopilot-is-self-improving/

• Google Drone Delivery Service in 2017 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34704868

• Grocery Delivery Bot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11962566/Skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1.html

• 3D printing Artificial Hair

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/sorry-hair-club-for-menwe-can-finally-3d-print-hair/

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Nov 02

The Hollows urban fantasy series starts with an infodump about a genetic plague spread by tomatoes.

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The Hollows urban fantasy series starts with an infodump about a genetic plague spread by tomatoes. Kim Harrison may have had it backwards.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Physics breakthroughs, astronomy discoveries, and impressive biomedical advancements. Even a new type of cancer treatment that reprograms cancer cells to kill other cancer cells! It’s all in the links below!

• Redesigned Hall Thruster

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-plasma-engine-could-get-humans-to-mars-on-100-million-times-less-fuel

• Oxygen Found Around Comet 67P

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34660576

• Restoring Neural Plasticity

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuron-transplants-may-one-day-reverse-blindness/

• Femtosecond Electron Pulses

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=41691.php

• Lab Grown Intestinal Linings

http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2015/10/lab-grown-guts-show-promise-mice-and-dogs

• Hundreds of Young Stars Discovered

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/e-vdn102615.php

• Making Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/10/researchers-making-leukemia-cells-kill.html

• Turning Tomatoes into Pharmaceutical Labs

http://www.thelatestnews.com/will-gm-tomatoes-be-used-to-fight-diseases-in-the-future/

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Oct 31

A couple of really cool ones this week.

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A couple of really cool ones this week. The balloon internet, wifi X-ray and 3D-printed houses are all things I plan to use in fiction.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Exciting new tech in all the tech industries! It’s all in the links below…

• Acoustic Tractor Beam

http://factor-tech.com/connected-world/20371-worlds-first-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-objects-using-sound-waves/

• Project Loon to Cover India

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/542956/alphabets-stratospheric-loon-balloons-to-start-serving-internet-to-indonesia/

• Wifi X-ray

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625636/rf-capture-mit-wifi-tracking-surveillance-technology

• Flexible, Wearable Batteries

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151020005692/en/Samsung-SDI%E2%80%99s-Next-Gen-Wearable-Battery-Unpack%E2%80%A6Showing-Next-Generation

• VR Simulation Puts You Aboard ISS

http://www.roadtovr.com/earthlight-astronaut-vr-sim-puts-iss-nasa-collaborates-realism/

• 3D Printing Entire Homes in 24 Hours

http://zbrella.com/contour-crafting-to-3d-print-entire-homes-in-under-24-hours-on-site/

• High Capacity Battery Case

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/edison-power-company-sunvault-energy-kickstart-smartphone-battery-case-prototype-using-otcqb-svlt-2065986.htm

• Room Temperature Quantum Material

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-quantum-thin.html

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