Wreckage of a Turkish Airlines aircraft.
“Automation addiction” has eroded their flying skills of pilots to the point that they sometimes don’t know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in airline crashes in the last five years.
Continue reading… “‘Automation addiction’ – Have pilots forgotten how to fly?”
Kinze Manufacturing’s autonomous row crop technology.
Kinze Manufacturing hopes to do for tractors what Roomba has done for vacuum cleaners.
Continue reading… “Kinze Manufacturing develops ‘autonomous’ tractor”
Women dominate ereader ownership.
Women have been slow to adopt tablets but they do dominate eReader ownership, according to recent data by Nielsen.
Continue reading… “61% of eReader owners are women”
Ebonite International, manufacturer of bowling balls, is located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
The United States dominated global manufacturing for most of the last century. There was no country that could compete with America’s output.
Continue reading… “Still made in America – 10 U.S. industries that have survived”
The 64-mile tunnel would connect the far east of Russia with Alaska.
Plans to build the world’s longest tunnel have been unveiled in Russia. The tunnel will run under the Bering Strait as part of a transport corridor linking Europe and America via Siberia and Alaska.
Continue reading… “Russia plans to build world’s longest tunnel to America”
The changes in the rules will be the biggest shake-up in a generation.
The Department of Health in Britain is to announce plans for a new system of independent counseling for women before they finally commit to terminating a pregnancy. The move is designed to give women more “breathing space”.
Continue reading… “Abortion laws to be tightened in Britain”
The first image of an electron’s path.
It was only two years ago that IBM showed us an image of a complete molecule, atomic bonds and all, but today’s news does that one infinitesimally-sized breakthrough better. Ladies and gents, behold the first image of an electron’s path.
Utterly amazing stuff! The IBM breakthrough was amazing enough, but now we have images of the electron’s orbital path around a nucleus! This is good, good news, because until now physicists only had models and hypotheses to work with…
Continue reading… “Fascinating first-ever images of an electron in orbit”
What if they never existed?
Futurist Thomas Frey: If Steve Jobs had never lived, would we still have the iPhone and iPad today? Similarly, if Walt Disney, George Lucas, and Pete Diamandis had all taken jobs on Wall Street instead of living their lives as true innovators, would we still have Disneyland, Star Wars, and the X-Prize Foundation today?
Continue reading… “Visionaries wanted – no need to apply, just do it”
Recycled shipping containers are blending environmentalism with style.
Corrugated shipping containers have come a long way from transport, storage, and handling of various goods. They have attracted the eye and attention of architects and city planners alike. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Shipping containers-turned-houses”
Obesity will worsen by 2030.
Obesity is most widespread in the United States and Britain among the world’s leading economies. By 2030, about half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese if present trends continue, health experts warn.
Continue reading… “Almost half of Americans will be obese by 2030”
What a non-surprise.
Many of us sounded the alarm as soon as we learned of BP’s plans to dump huge quantities of the chemical dispersant Corexit into the Gulf in an attempt to break up the oil slick. Experts were concerned, seeing as how the chemical had never been used in such quantities before, nor in such a manner — until the federal government made them stop, BP was blasting the stuff directly into the source, seeking to disperse the oil before it even reached the surface.
Well, now Earth Justice has completed a report on the chemicals that were used in the different blends of dispersant, and it appears that at least some of those fears were well-founded…
Overall, men still want sex rather than fatherhood.
“Baby fever” — that sudden, visceral, and almost irresistible urge to have a baby — not only exists, it can be found in both men and women, according to a new study in the psychological journal Emotion.
Continue reading… “‘Baby fever’ is real and men suffer from it too: study”
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