Stories that caught my interest that now have faded away:
Room Temp processing chips: Swear I heard they had them. Reduce the energy cost for AI by a factor of ten.
Bees Vs. Wi-Fi- Will you turn off your WiFi during daylight hours if it saves the bees?
Nuclear Alchemy- Mercury to Gold, only radioactive for 20 years. Short your Gold Futures? buy mercury.
Germany alarmed mRNA VAX outcomes- fertility crashes too! (hint, plenty of frozen embries!!)
300,000 'lost' only 30,000 found. (hopefully that CBP pilot facial recognition program that they tested exclusively on unaccompanied minors yielded helpful data, if only a small sample of the totals.)
Toxoplasmosis? I was always fascinated by that fungus? (it had spores...) that hijacked the ant's motor functions as part of it's reproductive scheme. Different insects have species specific fungal attackers. A form needs to be inside cats to reproduce, so guess what mammalian behaviors it induces in those it infects ? Try being attracted to the smell of cat urine, and being- (Aggressive, fearless, suicidal? in any case messed up.) da da da da da da da... Cat-lady! (or Super-rat! actually better for the fungal scheme.)
A vaccine might cure sexually transmitted plasmidosis that has as part of it's scheme promiscuity, aggression, attention signals (bright colors, provoking behaviors, loud screeching and cries) broad sexual attractant cues, etc. Saw an article, wish I could reference it properly. What if there was a VAX for that? Could we get the cray cray to take the jab? Of course you know, moral living would limit the spread. Perhaps it really does spread in University.
We been under bio-attack. You don't agree? Asian Carp. Murder Wasps. Asian weeds and seeds, black wheat blight, Screw worm?!!
1. Decades of understory overgrowth turn fire ecology into catastrophic burn-overs.
2. Tens of millions of 'honest burglars squatting in our living room, the ones who aren't breaking our stuff or stealing it although they are running up the water bill and eating the groceries.
= 7 year labor investment towards (veted) citizenship, the "Green" time versus money version of the Golden Trump 5 million card, clearing overgrowth and normalizing Federal Lands and Parks to prevent total loss burns.
I hear there are whole battalions of healthy unregulated alien youngsters of recruitment age available, with nothing else wholesome to occupy themselves with.
I have had several wishes for longer chapter length, but let me tell you a story. I have had several chapters get swallowed by screen freeze, requiring hard shut-down to get out of, and rescued several more from like fate by waiting it out, in one case getting a blue screen of death that had the resurection clause "push any key" and a chapter rose from the dead.
I have gotten frusturated, but if I had more invested, I would not want to reconstruct the lost chapters, and I have been known to allow stories to fall into oblivion, such as We the Wall of us. I let that one get too silly, and divided my characters apart, losing all cohesiveness.
Also, I will have you know that this sick ailing magic typing box I am using right now, my back-up plan, is the same one I mention as making clicking noised on shutdown, and I can't re-open any word-pad documents I now create. The old ones work fine, but not anything I save now. I have to write, online spell-check, and post before I get a freeze screen.
Trust me, better I keep to short, replaceable chapters.