This is clever, and metaphorically huge. Because it’s literally very small.
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Antennas Made 100 Times Smaller to Hook Up Tiny Wearables and Implants http://suhub.co/2gHk6NO
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VR Promises a Surprising Tech Alternative to Painkillers in Deadly Opioid Crisis
On the third watch, I think I’ve figured out why I like Zootopia so much.
I mean, yes, the visual beauty, the inspiring message, the clever dialog, the catchy song. But lots of kids’ movies have those; it’s almost the price of entry. What makes Zootopia stand out, not only among movies but among written stories, is how carefully the writers have tucked in all the corners and made use of reincorporation.
From the opening school play (which achieves exposition while being entertaining, also hard to do), through the subsequent bully encounter, the carrot pen/voice recorder, the blueberries, the DMV guy, the song, the tiny vole… no detail is too small to tie to another moment in the film. (On this third watch, I noticed that Assistant Mayor Bellwether has a post-it by her phone with the name “Doug,” which links up later on.) The whole thing feels tightly woven together. Nothing is too small to be important, which also neatly reinforces the message of the film.
This is why, when I work through the second draft of Illustrated Gnome News, I’ll be replacing a couple of new minor characters with similar characters who’ve appeared in previous books. But I’ll also look for other opportunities to do this tight weaving, especially in my short fiction, where it’s particularly effective.
Meanwhile, in mirror world…
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OMG y’all… this thread made the laugh so hard last night. Someone asked for the name of a man from history to include on a list of famous figures and folks responded in the best way possible.
Check it out: https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall/status/903713613550153729
I sometimes think I hear my alarm when I don’t, or feel a phone buzz in my pocket when it’s not there.
Apparently hallucinations like this are relatively common. It’s only when the brain’s fact-checking process breaks down that they become psychosis.
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Is This the Real Thing? How the Brain Separates Fantasy From Reality http://suhub.co/2xygEgd
I have a story I can use this in.
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“Robots are replacing managers, too.” “As its name implies, Orchestra conducts a swarm of workers, most of whom are freelancers, and other ‘robots’ to complete projects. When a client requests website improvements, which B12 sells a la carte, Orchestra generates a new Slack group, identifies team members who are both available and appropriate to complete specific tasks, and hands off work to humans and automated processes in the appropriate order. It constructs a hierarchy of workers who can check and provide feedback on each other’s work.”
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via Johnny Zed
Based on fruit flies.
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It’s not every day you meet a high school student who’s been building functional robots since age 10. Then again, Mihir Garimella is definitely not your average teenager.
Via Keith Wilson.
This guy got some useful insights from his experiment, and is clearly a person of wisdom and empathy.
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During his eight months as a racist troll, Wilson never revealed his true identity. When it was all over, Wilson said, he came to appreciate the way in which the far-right media bubble disables its participants — offering an endless stream of scapegoats for their problems but no credible solutions.
It might become real.
The speed from concept to execution is one of the impressive things here.
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Testing will continue, but Hyperloop One has much bigger plans for the future. The company’s goal is to have three production hyperloops completed by 2021.