Death Toll Rises to 26 in LA Train Crash: Engineer May Have Been Text Messaging at the Time

The NTSB is currently investigating whether or nottext messagingmay have played a part in the tragic head - on Metrolink caravan hit last Friday in LA that has claim 26 life . So far , they have reassert that the technologist , who was among those killed , failed to intercept at the final red sign . However , two teens have come onward saying that they received text subject matter from him shortly before the incident ....

February 5, 2025 · 2 min · 224 words · Thomas Coleman

DirecTV For the Sea

Have boat , will travel . Now add together the Modern TracVision M3 orbiter tv set organization and you may jaunt in style . KVH Industries , Inc. has announce the M3 as the world ’s little marine satellite telly system , perfect for sauceboat as diminished as 25 feet . perhaps you thought your vessel was just too flyspeck to be kicking up your foot and watch out the tube ?...

February 5, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · Gina Cooper

Dragon Con Day 0: Cosplayers Invade Atlanta

flying lizard Conhasn’t even technically started yet , and already the hotel of downtown Atlanta are pullulate with popular culture enthusiasts in full costume . Here are some of the cosplayers who caught our optic the during our first night lurch the flooring . Bad Presidents ’ George Washington is disposed to fend for his country of origin . range credit : Zac Fudge / Thought Swerve Media . Avatar Aang gets quick to twist air ....

February 5, 2025 · 4 min · 719 words · Dale Nelson

Dutch Inventor Creates ‘Living Coffin’ That Uses Mushrooms To Compost Dead Bodies

It can take up to a decade for a human body to decompose from within a conventional coffin, but the “Living Cocoon” can compost a corpse in just two to three years. Bob HendrikxThese biodegradable coffins , screw as Living cocoons , are made out of the fungus mycelium . Have you ever think about what chance to your body after you perish ? Well , designers in the Netherlands have , and they ’ve come up with an eco - friendly solution to burying the deceased ....

February 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1069 words · Timothy Wilson

Finally, A Squid is Being Sent Into Space

meg of year ago , early human race used to stare at the star - flecked sky and wonder , “ When the hell will we be able to charge a calamary up there ? ” The time is now . According toNew Scientist , the ( lovely ) bobtail squid will be riding on the final launch of the space shuttlecock Endeavour next workweek . Scientists desire to canvass the effect of microgravity on the bacteria that aid the calamari shine ....

February 5, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · Ryan Rodriguez

From Zippo Cars to the Peepmobile: 7 Bizarre Marketing Vehicles

If your college was anything like mine , a day did n’t go by without some company giving out gratuitous samples in wacky car . The Red Bull elevator car even had its own parking space down the street from the dormitory . ( endeavor to resist the temptation when walk past a giant can of Red Bull before an early class is absolute torture . ) Here are seven examples of even weirder promotional vehicles ....

February 5, 2025 · 4 min · 776 words · Michelle Mason

Grab Your Towels: BBC Radio Has Ordered a NewHitchhiker’s GuideRadio Drama

Grab your towel , hoopy froods : BBC Radio Four has just commission a newfangled Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy radio drama ground on the last novel of the ‘ trilogy ’ , And Another Thing . The original Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxywas a wireless dramathat first aired in 1978 , which Divine Douglas Adams later deform into a novel by the same name . This new series is ground on the novel Eoin Colfer write based on Adams ’ cloth following his death in 2001 ....

February 5, 2025 · 2 min · 253 words · Dylan Carroll

Hand In Hand Clock Would Need Plenty of Wall Space

TheHand In Hand clockis a to the full running software innovation , where the minute hand rotates on the end of the hour deal , and the 2nd hand rotates on the end of the second deal . It ’s difficult to record at first , but soon makes sense . The catch ? If my careful calculation are right , the thing is in full extend at a different point each hour ....

February 5, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Christopher Levine

Scientists Use Lasers To Induce Hallucinations In Mice – What Could Go Wrong?

By thrifty targeting of specific nerve cell mice have been put one over into think they are learn a pattern . The employment has some exciting potential medical covering , but might be the first stirring of a liar ’s promised land , a real - life version of videodeepfakes , where it becomes impossible to tell whether what you see , hear or touch is existent or simulate ....

February 5, 2025 · 3 min · 527 words · Raymond Obrien

Small Dietary Changes Could Bring Big Environmental Gains

unspoiled news program , everyone : Doing better for your body , your wallet , and the satellite may not require an all - kale diet . Experts write in the journalClimatic Changesay that small change like avoiding work on marrow could save billion of dollars in healthcare monetary value and aid us reach crucial environmental protection goals . It ’s no secret that the standard American diet is harmful ....

February 5, 2025 · 3 min · 511 words · Martin Baker

Some Binary Stars Might Steal From Each Other Via Magnetic Fields

There is a grouping of varying pairs of stars known as Algol - type binary star . They are named after the prototype member of this stratum : Algol , a bright multiple star system in the Perseus constellation . In these prima couplet , the star that was earlier brighter , more massive , and more evolved ends up being dimmer and light-headed , stripped of material by its familiar ....

February 5, 2025 · 3 min · 510 words · Todd Harper MD

The Top 20 Jewish Comedians of All-Time

Picking only 20 was hard . funniness is just something Jews do well . I once asked Jon Lovitz , one of many comedians left off the list , why the comedy circuit was dominated by Jews , a people who only make up 2 % of the American population and 0.227 % of the mankind ’s population . He said , " To be laughable , you have to suffer , suffer , suffer ....

February 5, 2025 · 11 min · 2270 words · Kevin Davidson

Watch A Plane Make Aviation History In Nail-Biting World-First Tunnel Flight

airmanship history was made last weekend after a pilot savage through a burrow in an airplane average out a blistering hurrying of 245 kilometers ( 152 miles ) per hour , breaking multiple record . Dario Costa , a 41 - year - older stunt pilot light from Italy , flew in an aircraftthrough two of the Çatalca Tunnels — one after another — near the Turkish capital of Istanbul just after sunrise on Saturday , September 4 , 2021 ....

February 5, 2025 · 3 min · 537 words · Shaun Hanson