The Weaponization of Insects

This idea. Oh, my, heck. One of my first novelettes was about using insects as military grade spies. Just a bit of wetware to get control of their brains. Then mount a nano recording and transmitting device… How are you going to stop that? But wait–insects can be far more sinister. Jeffrey A. Lockwood has written Six-Legged

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Is Product Popularity Random?

In Why Publishing is Making You Crazy—and What You Can Do About It: The Tao of Publishing, Steven Axelrod and Julie Anne Long write an interesting post that takes some findings made by Duncan Watts and attempts to explain why writers should only focus on the quality of their work because they cannot reliably affect popularity in any

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Hornswoggle & Happiness

Since we now know that happiness is contagious and that a happy friend is worth $20,000, I figured I’d provide a practical means of infecting you with some mild levels of joy so you could increase your value. Hey, who needs stinking bionics to become the million-dollar man? Have you ever noticed that using some

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