GIMP brushes (not what you think); MMO population flux; ethics of climate change economics, self-repairing aircraft …

• 1 – Best of GIMP brushes: 35+ brush sets (1400+ brushes)
  Ba-zing! See, Twitter has uses.
  (tags: resource layout graphics design brushes GIMP)
• 2 – Why are MMOs having a population crisis?
  “… it’s increasingly likely that there will always be a single dominant MMO distantly ahead of the rest – simply because the social nature of MMOs requires large numbers of players, and players will naturally gravitate towards the world with the highest
  (tags: attention monopoly market population worlds synthetic metaverse games online MMO)
• 3 – If You’re Going To Argue In Favor Of Copyright, It Might Help To Do Some Research First
  The ever-reliable Techdirt.
  (tags: model business distribution piracy property intellectual copyright industry music)
• 4 – The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?
  “The question is an ethical one. Science, including the science of economics, can help discover the causes and effects of climate change. It can also help work out what we can do about climate change. But what we should do is an ethical question.”
  (tags: futurism planning ethics economics change climate)
• 5 – Tackling Moondust for Future Lunar Living
  “Astronauts living on a permanent moon base will need protection against the bleak world’s asbestos-like dust, not to mention shielding from radiation and a plan to ward off psychological demons.”
  (tags: psychology hazards engineering planning precautions colony lunar moon)
• 6 – Which Medium is Driving Science Fiction…Books or Film/TV?
  “I’d say in both film and publishing that the bean counters are driving science fiction, and this threatens to homogenize the genre.” Lucius Shepard
  (tags: cutting-edge media TV films literature books fiction science sf scifi)
• 7 – UK researchers developing self-repairing aircraft
  “The system involves filling the hollow parts of composite-based aircraft with a hardening epoxy resin, which “bleeds” out of any hole or crack that forms on the craft and patches it up on the fly. The resin allows the composite to recover 80-90% of i
  (tags: resin epoxy technology science materials aircraft self-repairing)