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Mar 21, 2021
Texas Roadhouse CEO ‘took his own life’ amid ‘unbearable’ COVID-19-related symptoms, family says
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, business
Kent Taylor, the co-founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse Inc., has died from suicide, his family said, after suffering “unbearable” COVID-19-related symptoms.
Taylor’s family and the restaurant chain said in a statement to The Hill on Sunday that the business executive “took his own life this week” after “a battle with post-Covid related symptoms, including severe tinnitus.”
“Kent battled and fought hard like the former track champion that he was, but the suffering that greatly intensified in recent days became unbearable,” the statement read.
Mar 21, 2021
It looks like some kind of futuristic sound-weapon, but have no fear, it’s merely the latest in wave energy technology
Posted by Jeffery Pacheco in categories: energy, futurism
Mar 21, 2021
Meet Airspeeder, the flying car startup planning high-speed air races to bring its tech to market
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: transportation
Airspeeder wants to be the “first electric flying car race,” its CEO told Insider. It also wants you to know flying cars are closer than you think.
Mar 21, 2021
Humans are still evolving, and maybe faster now than ever
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: futurism
The sudden prevalence of an artery in the forearm is evidence that we’re still very much a work in progress.
Mar 21, 2021
How the Ingenuity helicopter will deploy on Mars
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
NASA systems engineer Dr. Farah Alibay from JPL talks about the Ingenuity helicopter and how it will separate from the Perseverance rover and then land on the Red Planet.
Mar 21, 2021
HDL Update: Age-Related Changes, All-Cause Mortality Risk, And Progress Towards The Optimal Range
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, sex
Here’s my latest video!
In November 2020, I made a HDL video based on a meta-analysis in ~3.4 million subjects that was published in July 2020. In Dec 2020, a larger study (n=15.8 million subjects) was published-those data are presented in the video, and compared against the meta-analysis.
Mar 21, 2021
Neuroscientists Unveil Tech for the Vision Impaired: Bionic Eyes, Textured Tablets and More
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism, wearables
Devices shift away from Robocop-like wearables to simpler, more accessible assistive solutions.
There are many, many wearable and portable devices aimed at improving life for the blind and visually impaired (in some cases, even restoring vision). Such devices have been developed for pretty much every part of the body: fingers, wrists, abdomen, chest, face, ears, feet, even the tongue.
Mar 21, 2021
Spacecraft in a ‘warp bubble’ could travel faster than light, claims physicist
Posted by Paul Battista in category: space travel
Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299792 km/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.
However, new research by Erik Lentz at the University of Göttingen suggests a way beyond this limit. The catch is that his scheme requires vast amounts of energy and it may not be able to propel a spacecraft.
Lentz proposes that conventional energy sources could be capable of arranging the structure of spacetime in the form of a soliton – a robust singular wave. This soliton would act like a “warp bubble’”, contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind. Unlike objects within spacetime, spacetime itself can bend, expand or warp at any speed. Therefore, a spacecraft contained in a hyper-fast bubble could arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws, even Einstein’s cosmic speed limit.
Mar 21, 2021
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Metal Asteroid Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in categories: economics, space
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures a Rare Metal Asteroid Worth 70000 Times the Global Economy.
The metallic rarity is valued at $10000, 000000, 000000, 000.