By Daniel Rennie – Grace O’Malley – YouTube. How pirate queen Grace O’Malley ruled the high seas, bent the English crown to her will, and rose to the top of a world with little place for women. While Mary, Queen of Scots succumbed …
Scott Collie – The Aston Martin Valkyrie could be headed to a public road near you. The bespoke AM-RB001 Valkyrie became one of the most talked about cars in the world when Aston Martin and Red Bull announced it in Melbourne last year, and the hype …
by Stephen Johnson – Scott Santens via Flickr. Chicago may become one of the first U.S. cities to implement a universal basic income program (UBI). The proposal, introduced by Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar, would create a small-scale UBI experiment that gives 1,000 families …
For centuries, no one could read it. by Sarah Laskow – The papyrus before conservation. University of Basel. At the University of Basel, in Switzerland, the papyrus collection contained a mystery. Most of the papyri had come to the university around 1900, for …
City of Alamogordo lost $250,000 to fake vendor Santa Fe, NM – The City of Alamogordo last week paid more than $250,000 to an unknown scam artist, and recovery of that public money is likely to be difficult if not impossible. In light of that …
By Loz Blain . The TMC Dumont’s 36-inch rims make it look like a rolling pair of spectacles – and a spectacle it certainly is. Impractical? Sure! Vulgar? Most certainly. Unique? In every sense. This staggering custom motorcycle uses the biggest pair …
by Angel San Juan, KFDM Staff – Photo: KFDM Staff. PORT ARTHUR, Texas (KFDM) — Some Port Arthur residents are planting trees in potholes to protest the poor condition of their street. Several neighbors say when it comes to the condition of their …
By Alice Tidey & Lillo Montalto Monella © Copyright: University of Leeds. Potholes are the bane of drivers’ existence and a major, expensive, headache for authorities. But researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK are hoping to deploy a drone capable of …
David Szondy – BlackFly is a single-seater electric VTOL aircraft (Credit: Opener) Canadian-based aviation firm Opener Inc. has unveiled its new BlackFly single-seater aircraft, which it bills as a Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) and the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing Vertical Take-Off …
David Szondy – The new quantum radar would negate the near-invisibility of stealth aircraft like the B-2 Spirit bomber (Credit: USAF) Stealth technology may not be very stealthy in the future thanks to a US$2.7-million project by the Canadian Department of National …
