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By Loz Blain – – Liftoff! Lazareth’s Moto Volante in a stable 1-meter hover on safety tethers. (Credit: Lazareth Auto Moto). “We don’t know if Lazareth is genuinely intending to test fly this thing,” we wrote when we first saw La Moto Volante …
By Luke Kemp – Studying the demise of historic civilizations can tell us how much risk we face today, says collapse expert Luke Kemp. Worryingly, the signs are worsening. Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives. DEEP CIVILISATION …
By Rich Haridy – – Heroic work of the firefighters of Mexicali, Baja California, México attending a gigantic fire of a recycling plant – 1st place winner in the National Awards for México. (Credit: Victor Medina Gorosave, México, 1st Place, National Awards, 2019 …
By Ben Coxworth – – The Wayv harness is said to weigh less than 200 g (7 oz), with the helmet unit tipping the scales at under 150 g (5.3 oz). (Credit: Wayv). Thanks to advances in both LED and Bluetooth technology, we’ve recently …
Those (not really) IRS calls. by Lisa Weintraub Schifferle Attorney, FTC, Division of Consumer & Business Education. You’ve probably gotten one of these calls: They say it’s the IRS and they’re filing a lawsuit against you for back taxes. They may threaten …
By Ben Coxworth – – The MetaFly can be flown both indoors and outdoors (if the winds aren’t too strong). Five years ago, French aeronautical engineer Edwin Van Ruymbeke successfully crowdfunded his Bionic Bird – it’s a remote-control model that flies by flapping …
by Ben B.Boothe, Sr. – – Circa 1890: A sailor tries to kiss a young woman under a sprig of mistletoe. (William Small. Hulton Archive/Getty Images By KAT MOON). From Harry Potter’s first kiss to Justin Bieber’s holiday tune, kissing under the mistletoe is everywhere …
An undated photo of abolitionist and women’s rights activist Lucy Stone. Corbis—Getty Images. – During Women’s History Month the work of pioneering women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will surely be debated and discussed in classrooms and newsrooms around the …
By Ben Coxworth – – It may not be much to look at, but it could conceivably spare a child from colitis. (Credit: decade3d/Depositphotos). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) isn’t good for anyone to have, but it’s particularly hard on children – it can …
By Michael Irving – – Harvard researchers have uncovered the chemical chain reaction that links a lack of sleep to cardiovascular disease. (Credit: suriyaphoto/Depositphotos). Responsible for a staggering 31 percent of all deaths worldwide, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the …
