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Sonic Boom: Killer Car Phones
Even after 30 years, researchers are still sounding the alarm on the dangers of distracted driving. But drivers aren’t paying attention to the warnings, because they’re too busy checking their texts and updating their play lists. Researchers at the University of Toronto, who published the original study on which our Sonic Boom story was based, …
Sonic Boom: Chocolate Pounds
Unless you’re a competitive eater, you probably don’t have to worry about gaining pounds of fat in a matter of days. But insatiably curious radio listeners still asked about the relationship between eating a pound of high-calorie food, like chocolate, and gaining a pound of weight. And Rhea Seehorn and the Sonic Boom team took …
Sonic Boom: Chicken Gun
Collisions with birds are a serious threat to both military and civilian airplanes. And, yes, the military could have spent millions of dollars developing an avian projectile that would have the same characteristics as a bird, and millions of dollars more manufacturing these synthetic projectiles to be fired at airplane windshields and engines for testing …
E.O. Wilson: World Champion
World-famous evolutionary biologist and entomologist E.O. Wilson died on Sunday, leaving behind a legacy as exceptional and wide-ranging as was his intellect and curiosity. An eye injury as a child permanently damaged his distance vision, limiting him to the examination of little things, and ultimately leading him to focus on ants, which became his lifelong …
Robot Gaze Aversion
Humans relate better to robots that avert their eyes at well-chosen moments.