Collaborate Disseminate
An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, which once sprawled over 30.5 hectares of Italian co… Continue reading Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar
Two years ago we reported on the launch of a city ebike from a Belgian startup called Cowboy. Now the third generation commuter ride has been announced, with a removable battery housed in the seat tube, crash detection through a companion app and a new… Continue reading Cowboy rolls third generation commuter ebike into European cities
Specialized has launched super light versions of its commuter ebike, with the company claiming that they’re 40 percent lighter than much of the competition. The Turbo Vado SL ebikes will offer assist up to 28 mph and should be good for 80 miles of per … Continue reading Specialized launches super light Turbo Vado urban ebikes
The small city of Cornelia in the US state of Georgia, best known among tourists for building a 2.4-ton sculpture of a red apple, is now becoming known for a more heroic feat – suffering its third ransomware attack so far this year and avoiding r… Continue reading Small City of Cornelia Dodges Ransom Again in Its Third Ransomware Attack of 2019
This time, when we sat down to talk about it, I taped our conversation. Continue reading My Husband and I Are Seriously Questioning Whether to Raise our Kid in the City
This time, when we sat down to talk about it, I taped our conversation. Continue reading My Husband and I Are Seriously Questioning Whether to Raise our Kid in the City
Positive reinforcement is the process of getting someone to understand their actions result in a reward. Children get a sweet treat when they pick up all their toys and older ones might get some cash for mowing the lawn. From the perspective of the treat-giver, this is like turning treats into work. A Dutch startup wants to teach the crow population to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for bird treats.
The whole Corvidae family of birds is highly intelligent so it shouldn’t be a problem training them that they will get a reward for depositing something the Hominidae family …read more
Redditor [ squishy0eye] lacked a coffee table and wanted an infinity mirror. So, in a keen combination of the two, she built an infinity mirror table the resembles a nighttime cityscape.
Skimming over many of table’s build details, [squishy0eye] paused to inform the reader that an MDF base was used underneath the mirrors, with a hole drilled for the future power cable. For the top pane, she overlaid privacy screen mirror film onto tempered glass, turning it into a one-way mirror. The bottom pane is acrylic plastic due to the need to drill holes to hide the cables for each …read more
