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See 35 MPH and 3,000W InMotion V11 electric unicycle getting serious air!
The InMotion V11 takes the general concept of an electric unicycle and then ratchets the insanity up to â11â with a gigantic motor and true air suspension.
Solarpunk Is Growing a Gorgeous New World in the Cracks of the Old One
The job of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. A powerful way to combat destructive behaviors of any kind is to construct a sound image of where youâd like to be at some point in the future. Explore what it will sound, look, taste, and feel like to live your future life, to be your future self. And then assess each temptation you face with this image in mind. Weigh whether it will move you closer or further away from that future. Seduce yourself, appropriate your own longing for a better, more pleasurable, more spectacular future.
The movement is a call to action for studios to make movies, for artists to paint pictures, and for anyone with access to the means of creation and communication to participate in the most pragmatic form of dreaming. To imagine a world so compelling you donât want to wake upânot until the dreamworld becomes reality. To create something literal, like Akonâs newly announced project to build a real life Wakanda in Senegal.
Solarpunk just might be the cultural movement we deserve in the midst of our ongoing trials and tribulations. Itâs the one we need to make the rest of this decade a palatable, even euphoric experience. Sometimes, demanding to thrive is the very best way to survive. It is the necessity and audacity not only of hope, but of beauty.
Interactive map of Earth shows where your home was 500 million years ago
Over the course of Earthâs four billion-year history, things have moved around rather a lot â including the continents of today.
An online interactive map shows exactly where your hometown has wandered over the course of hundreds of millions of years of continental drift.
Created by California palaeontologist Ian Webster in a web application, the map is based on geological models created by Christopher Stoese, CNN reported.
DeLorean DR7 Wants To Fly Us Back To The Future
The DR7 is designed to be a personal commuter aircraft. So far, a 1/3 scale full composite proof-of-concept aircraft has been tested successfully. In order to minimize the propeller hazards, the rotors have been enclosed. They are tilted downwards for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) launches and landings. They tilt horizontally to go forward. And all of this fits into a regular car garage.
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Short of the revolutionary Burt Rotan wild aircraft designs, airplanes have changed little over the past decades. Winged-cylinder with a propulsion system is how we travel through the air. Unless you have the astronomical budget the military enjoys to design hypersonic aircraft, not for the general public, the choice is simple â airplanes or helicopters. DeLorean Aerospace just announced that its DR7 should fly by the end of 2018. That would shake things up, but is it practical, viable, for real?
In the 1980s, the DeLorean Motors Corporation gave us a break from the ho-hum cars sold everywhere by offering an aesthetically pleasing aerodynamic car. Eventually, DeLorean Aerospace picked up where its four-wheel parent left off, with a uniquely designed aircraft, the DR7. Although the name more or less gives it away, the company was founded in 2012 by Paul DeLorean, John DeLoreanâs nephew. The mission was to develop a flying car.
New Species Found in the Hottest Place on Earth
Shrimps are tough: 3.
A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, known as the hottest place on Earth.
The newly identified species belongs to the genus Phallocryptus of which only four species were previously known from different arid and semiarid regions.
Dr. Hossein Rajaei from the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History and Dr. Alexander V Rudov from Tehran University made the discovery during an expedition of Lut to better understand the desertâs ecology, biodiversity, geomorphology, and paleontology.
Adam Savage Builds Working IRON MAN Suit That Flies
If anyone in the world had the actual real-life know-how of Tony Stark, itâd be Adam Savage. He proved this by building a working, flying Iron Man suit.
Brain imaging expertise supports new discoveries on decision-making process
Research carried out by a University academic has shed new light on the fundamentals of how, and why, we make the decisions we do.
In two separate studies, UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Lecturer in Psychology, Dr. Elsa Fouragnan has used her expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and computational analysis to discover exactly what happens in the brains of human and non-human primates when certain kinds of decisions are made in different contexts. Both pieces of work were carried out in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxfordâs Department of Experimental Psychology.
The first, published in Nature Communications, explores how and where the brain encodes a memory of the general reward rate in an environment, what the team describes as the ârichnessâ of the context in which decisions are made.