A transparent film could reflect 70% of solar heat
We’re going to need a lot more of this as global warming overwhelms our thermostats. Perhaps the guys at MIT could integrate it into vast floating domes, the habitats we’ll be surviving in when sea levels rise, submerging cities like London.
There’s a story idea in there somewhere. Perhaps, in a post-apocalyptic world, submerged under rising sea level, a vast floating dome is habitat to city of people only just surviving. With the dome crumbling, their home falling apart, how will the inhabitant of “Atmosphere” survive?
The self-assembling computer chips of the future
This is a really interesting piece of science. For some reason it makes me think of TRON.
M.I.T. Predicts in 1973 that civilisation will end by 2040
A lesson on looking
Dead Dog on the Left (2018)
“Dead Dog on the Left (2018) isn’t just a documentary about the use of ecstasy in treating PTSD, it’s a story of the lengths one former marine will go to for friendship.”
Mystery particle spotted
I understand very little, if any, of the science in this article. What intrigues me is the idea that they may have discovered a particle that “is not just outside the standard model but outside it in a way that nobody anticipated”.
To me that is the stuff of science fiction. New particle leads to who know what? Some might find this distressing. I say keep looking. It may be the particle that lets us hit the reset button on the mess we are currently in.
How isolation fuels opioid addiction
Three lessons on decision-making from a poker champion
When gut bacteria change brain function
Interesting story by David Kohn in The Atlantic has me thinking, idea for a film?
It could be a “House MD” style medical detective story. A patient’s behaviour suddenly changes, presenting with what looks like autism, but they’re fifty. Test after test leave the team stumped, until they discover a recent trip abroad introduced an unfamiliar bacteria to the patients gut.
The happy ending version of this story has the team introducing healthy bacteria, restoring the patient to full health.
There’s also a “Lorenzo’s Oil” type story in there. Parents struggle to raise their child with severe behavioural problems. Setting out on a mission to help their child, they take on experts, challenge orthodoxy, and discover an imbalance of bacteria in their child is causing the problem.
I could also see this premise being more sinister. A pandemic story. Our germaphobic heroine starts to see the people around her change, congregating like bees in a hive, as the bacteria spreads. Our heroine hooks up with a small group trying to evade this new “normal”, and find a way to fight back. I envision something more akin to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” than “28 Days Later”. It has the potential to explore issues of power and control and normalisation.
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