Just Plain WEIRD #2
Technology is changing the face of modern warfare – for good and bad. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 20 – Commercial drones, Airbnb donations, TikTok chronicles, deepfake propaganda, and trolling Russian soldiers through Tinder. The conflict in the Ukraine has precipitated new …
Novel sensors developed at the University of Washington use solar panels (black rectangles) instead of batteries for power. Mark Stone/University of Washington – By Nick Lavars 2022 Mar 16 – The ongoing miniaturization of electronics has allowed for the creation of some incredibly small …
Described by the Prime Minister of Dubai as the “world’s most beautiful building,” the Museum of the Future is certainly one of the most striking projects we’ve seen in a while. Museum of the Future View 10 Images – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar …
Shutterstock – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, Macquarie University And Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, IUPUI (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) – Published: 2022 Mar 15 – You …
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli – tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Published: 2022 Mar 18 – On …
This image, presumably from a training prep run, shows one of the skydiving pilots approaching a nose-diving plane. Red Bull – By Loz Blain 2022 Mar 17 – Back in 2017, Red Bull filmed a pair of BASE-jumping wingsuit pilots jumping off a mountain …
New mathematical formulation means huge paradigm shift in physics would not be necessary. An image captured by the Event Horizon telescope in 2019 of light around a black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. Photograph: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/EPA – By …
An autonomous underwater vehicle is recovered after completing a seafloor mapping mission in the Arctic Ocean. The remotely operated vehicle (foreground) is used to conduct visual surveys of the newly mapped seafloor. – By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 14 – Sign …
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia’s most respected architects. BIG – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar 15 – The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of …
The Pontos kayak is presently on Indiegogo. Pontos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 Mar 15 – Kayaks have many great qualities, but they’re typically not something you can store in a closet or carry in a backpack. That’s why we’ve been seeing an increasing …
