In Shadowlands, the play based on the life of C.S. Lewis, an academic colleague of Lewis mean-spiritedly speculates that Lewis put in so many feasts because he was writing for children and couldn’t put sex in the books. Here’s an alternative explanation.
Despite the clickbait-style headline, this is decent advice. I speak as a reviewer who frequently gives up on books for these reasons.
Start me out with a motivated character in a dynamic, unusual situation, write with good craft, and you’ll probably hold my attention throughout and get a good review from me.
Originally shared by Standout Books
If your book only does one thing, it’s unlikely to keep your reader’s attention.
Find out more with ‘5 Reasons Readers Give Up On Books… And How To Avoid Them’.
Contributor to fads, or actual useful tool?
Having studied nutrition and health, I can tell you it’s extraordinarily complicated, not least because food is so bound up with our culture and our psychology. I’ll be watching this with wary interest.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
This Tiny Tooth Sensor Tracks What You Eat, and It Could Help You Be Healthier https://suhub.co/2qzV5Jj
Some real story seeds in this one.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610681/human-cloning-just-got-a-little-bit-closer-heres-why/
Via Winchell Chung.
Provides a great opportunity for a Princess Bride reference: “Eocene Layers of Mysterious Origin? I don’t believe they exist.”
Originally shared by Michael Nestler
Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? – The Atlantic
Also on sale, also very good, Tim Pratt’s urban fantasy Heirs of Grace.
This book (The Philosopher’s Flight) topped my Best Books list for 2017, and is currently on sale at Amazon for $1.99.
An important advance in integrating human bodies and electronics.
Originally shared by Neuroscience News
Researchers Build Smallest Volume, Most Efficient Wireless Nerve Stimulator
The device, called StimDust, short for stimulating neural dust, adds more sophisticated electronics to neural dust without sacrificing the technology’s tiny size or safety, greatly expanding the range of neural dust applications.
What Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai are up to.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How do we forecast for the cities of the future?
Why would AI only model humans?
Originally shared by Arduino
Researchers trained an AI system to make dog-like decisions.
(via Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610775/this-ai-thinks-like-a-dog/