Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Nov 11

I tend not to include drug use in my stories, partly because I’m so uncomfortable with my own consciousness being…

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I tend not to include drug use in my stories, partly because I’m so uncomfortable with my own consciousness being altered that I don’t even drink coffee. But this is a fascinating look into an aspect of human life I didn’t know much about: synthetic street drugs, how they’re made and identified.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea

Nov 09

This is, no doubt, highly exaggerated and a lot more complex than it sounds.

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This is, no doubt, highly exaggerated and a lot more complex than it sounds. Growing human nervous tissue inside rats is not the same as growing “mini-brains”.

But are you going to let that stop you using it in a story?

https://www.inverse.com/article/38240-mini-brains-organoids-rats

Nov 07

Food for thought if you, like me, have a setting in which alternate computing mechanisms are under development.

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Food for thought if you, like me, have a setting in which alternate computing mechanisms are under development.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It may surprise you that the microchip that we all know and love today was far from an obvious idea. Some of the paths that were being explored back then to cram more components into a smaller area seem odd now. But…

http://hackaday.com/2017/11/07/how-the-integrated-circuit-came-to-be/

Nov 02

Oh, the possibilities.

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Oh, the possibilities.

Social media that reads your mood and manipulates it – well, we already have that.

Real-time, subliminal polling on everything from media to politics, leading to adjustments to storylines and party lines.

On the upside, child-minding AIs who train kids to deal better with their emotions.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Tech Is Becoming Emotionally Intelligent, and It’s Big Business http://suhub.co/2h6mC4I

Nov 02

#throwbackthursday

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Originally shared by Irina T.

#throwbackthursday

“Other states had Rosie the Riveters. New Hampshire had Lady Log Rollers.

In September 1938, a devastating hurricane killed more than 600 people in New England and caused property damage equal to $5.5 billion in today’s dollars. It also blew down 2.6 million board feet of timber — enough to frame more than 170,000 homes.

More logs ended up in Concord’s Turkey Pond than anywhere else after the U.S. Forest Service launched a massive salvage effort to harvest the tangled mess of timber and bring it to portable sawmills set up near storage ponds and fields. But by 1942, with men flocking to join the military during World War II, the sawmill at Turkey Pond couldn’t keep up.

Enter “the gals,” as the federal government called them.”

Read the rest of the story ( book review, “They Sawed up a Storm” by Sarah Shea Smith) at

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/04/09/news/book-details-nh%E2%80%99s-historic-female-sawmill-at-turkey-pond/

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Women Lumberjacks Carrying Logs at Turkey Pond, New Hampshire, as Part of an Experimental Project to Saw up Seven Million Feet of 1938 Hurricane Lumber

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6883309