Mysterious News Briefly January 26, 2021
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore developed a new robotic grabber made with a severed piece of a Venus flytrap (
Dionaea muscipula) connected to the robot’s arm electrodes. If the robot suddenly demands to be called Audrey and starts calling for Seymour, run!
A joint Australian-French research team set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmosphere with no interference from atmospheric turbulence, thus opening the door for an increase in the data rate from satellites to ground by orders of magnitude. In other words, from 5G to 5Gee-whiz!
Say Goodbye to the World’s Greatest Indoor Miniature Village Roadside America has been open since 1953, delighting visitors with its model of a Pennsylvania town frozen in time and full of little cars and trains. But the popular roadside attraction couldn’t survive the pandemic. David Kidd, Photojournalist and Storyteller | January 20, 2021 | Features
The smallest town in Pennsylvania is being broken up and sold at auction, another victim of the coronavirus and changing times. Billed as the “World’s Greatest Indoor Miniature Village,” Roadside America is closing its doors after 67 years in the same location. The 8,000-square-foot nostalgic representation of the Pennsylvania countryside was created by self-taught model maker Laurence Gieringer. He drew his inspiration from seeing the city of Reading from the top of a nearby mountain as a nine-year-old in 1903.
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The Streets of San Francisco. 15 photos
The crime drama had tons of crime (duh!), Michael Douglas and, more importantly, cars. Lots of cars, most of them brand new at the time when filming was done (1972-1977), which was incredibly inspiring for someone born a decade too late to enjoy them.
The gazillion vehicles chased, destroyed, or simply shown on camera back then included a lot of Ford Galaxies, a model that was all the craze over at team Ford at the time. Was an XL fastback like this one featured? Maybe, maybe not, but the reality remains it checks the right boxes in my brain for it to make the above connection.