Just Plain WEIRD #2
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. Credit: Floriana Getty Images – By Anil Ananthaswamy 2020 Oct 13 – It is not often that a comedian gives …
The Mobile Guardian Transporter about to be hit by a rocket-propelled truck. Sandia National Laboratories – By David Szondy 2020 Oct 11 – Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has successfully conducted a full-scale crash test of the semi-tractor-trailer truck that will be used to transport …
Museum in Nantes pulls show after intervention by Beijing, which comes as Communist party hardens discrimination against ethnic Mongols. Genghis Khan statue in Mongolia. Photograph: G Adventures, Inc – Agence France-Presse 2020 Oct 13 – 22.06 EDT – A French museum has postponed …
A new study suggests an increasing prevalence of a third forearm artery in humans over the past couple of hundred years. piotr_marcinski/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2020 Oct 11 – A human fetus transitions through a number of developmental stages in the womb. Some …
Made in Kerala, the “Aranmula kannadi” won’t distort your reflection. Photo by Chris Griffiths / Getty Images. – Atlas Obscura Susan Paul Savera John – In Aranmula, Kerala, a heritage village on the banks of the Pamba river, a group of skilled, metal-casting …
The Firenze Lanciare’s jet engines and large fuel supplies make long-range, high-speed air travel possible. Firenze (Background: jedgcomb/Depositphotos) – By Loz Blain 2020 Oct 07 – People’s concept of the flying car has shifted over the last five years or so as electric VTOL …
The goggles are both a camera and a display. Image copyright: Command Sight / US Army – BBC News Published 2020 Oct 09 – The US Army has shown off augmented reality goggles for combat dogs, designed to let them receive orders …
A hubless cycle rolling down the street will certainly grab all kinds of attention; it looks surreal. Beno – By Loz Blain 2020 Oct 06 – This eye-catching ebike offers 750 watts of power, about 500 watt-hours of battery, a long list of neat …
The Googstick (at left) is presently on Kickstarter – By Ben Coxworth 2020 Oct 05 – One of the nice things about reading electronic text is the fact that if there’s a word you don’t understand, you can just highlight it to perform a …
Artist’s concept of the first validated Earth-sized exoplanet found by the Kepler Space Telescope. NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech – By David Szondy 2020 Oct 05 – A team of scientists led by Washington State University (WSU) geobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch has identified two dozen exoplanets that …
