Neuron density.

Originally shared by Betsy McCall

http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-why-birds-are-so-freakishly-smart-1781889157

Yeah, pretty much. There’s now a $30k kit that can be fitted to any (recent-model) big rig that will make it self-driving.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2992

Wow, looking through an old notebook, and I’ve just found the original notes for a story idea I still don’t have the courage to write.

It’s dated Christmas 2003, and involves people who eat their own, and each other’s, vat-grown flesh.

I had no idea I’d been thinking about it that long.

You don’t always need a rocket to get into space.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-humanity-will-conquer-space-without-rockets-1676441431

Aliens, cyborgs, enhanced humans, uplifted animals… the SFF possibilities raised by this article are many.

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/weirdest-senses-animals-humans-dont/

“Performance pay, on the model encouraged by the 1993 reform, has been tested. What we’ve learned is that it rewards not performance, but shortsightedness, excessive risk, and even fraud, and that the consequences go well beyond radical inequality to include the kind of crisis that nearly took down the economy in 2008, abrupt layoffs and plant closings to meet shareholder expectations, corners cut on products that risk consumer safety (as seen at General Motors), and desperate attempts to evade the costs of environmental and workplace safety regulation.”

So what might a different kind of corporation look like?

https://evonomics.com/milton-friedman-doctrine-wrong-heres-rethink-corporation/

It has a kind of Lothlorien feel to it.

http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/house-interiors/news/a8478/glass-tree-house/