WEIRD FACTS
By Adam Williams – The project, which was created in partnership with Icon and Échale, is located in Tabasco, southeastern México. Joshua Pérez for New Story. – We’ve followed New Story’s efforts to create affordable 3D-printed homes for a while, including its first …
By Loz Blain – One of the most extreme and remarkable supercars ever built, the T.50 will be fully unveiled in May. Gordon Murray Design – It takes a lot to stand out in today’s crowded super/hyper/uber/mega car market, but famed F1 designer …
By Loz Blain – Futurus believes the cars of the near future will roll with all-singing, all-dancing augmented reality windscreens. Futurus. – Heads-up displays have all kinds of potential applications, but what if your car’s entire windscreen was a gigantic mixed reality display, capable …
By ICAST – Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove? That’s the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California and one town in Massachusetts that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction. The codes, most of them passed …
Forest Products firm will boost economy of Northeast New Mexico. Cimarrón – The State of New Mexico is investing $350,000 in Lance Forest Products LLC, which is relocating a sawmill business to Cimarrón as part of an effort to reinvigorate the timber sector …
By Ben Coxworth – Assoc. Prof. Xianming Shi, with a container of grape-skin extract. Washington State University. – Commonly known as road salt, the sodium chloride that’s commonly used to de-ice highways is harmful to the environment, plus it corrodes both road materials and …
Animal welfare and sustainability never felt so healthy. By Nina Pullano – Eating healthy is hard. Choosing a diet to follow can feel like starring on The Bachelorette. Keto or intermittent fasting? Atkins or the blood type diet? Which one is your perfect …
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business – New York (CNN Business) Ford has tapped McDonald’s to help it turn coffee parts into car parts. Starting this year, Ford is incorporating coffee chaff — coffee bean skin that comes off during the roasting process …
The robots love America. By Thor Benson – If you’re like pretty much every single human being, you’re not a fan of robocalls. Unfortunately, it appears this problem is only getting worse, and there isn’t a lot of hope that it will …
By Adam Williams – Assuming all goes to plan, Citicape House is due to be completed in 2024. Sheppard Robson. A remarkable new greenery-covered project has been submitted for planning permission in the City of London. Assuming it gets the thumbs-up, the …
