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
15
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/
Aug
11
I generally end up adding material when I revise (I draft bare-bones and bulk it up afterwards), but I know I’m…
I generally end up adding material when I revise (I draft bare-bones and bulk it up afterwards), but I know I’m unusual in this, and this article’s advice is good regardless. Basically: Outline what you’ve already written, and it will show you what’s unnecessary and what doesn’t fit.
I’m part of an online community where we critique each other’s work, and the critique I find myself offering most often is that the story lacks clarity. Outlining so you can figure out what the story actually is will help you to solve this problem.
(I have a technique I call the “rich outline,” which isn’t just about plot events, but any aspect of the story you want to work on: imagery, language, character, setting, emotional beats. It’s a general fix for a number of story ailments.)
Aug
11
Just started listening to this unusual episode of Writing Excuses on futurism – interesting for SF writers in…
Just started listening to this unusual episode of Writing Excuses on futurism – interesting for SF writers in particular.
http://www.writingexcuses.com/2016/07/31/11-31-futurism-with-trina-marie-phillips/