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How a Dark Mexico City Room Killed My Output | Daily Essay

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I paid two to three times what the same condo cost outside the city. It was the tail end of a three-year mini-retirement. Featuring: B. F. Skinner, Wilbur Wright, Lee Robins Watch on YouTube Read the full post What kind of founder are you? Take the free quiz Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Disc…

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He then led the Google self-driving car program …

Episode 88 They Hid in the Clouds: The Airships History Buried

110 years ago tonight, a German Zeppelin burned over Potters Bar, England. Thousands watched it fall… and not one photograph of it falling has ever surfaced. Tonight on Questioning Everything, we go up. Airships were flying under power in 1852, fifty-one years before Kitty Hawk. The Graf Zeppelin…

Object #6 - The Wright Brothers' Toy Helicopter (Child's Plaything That Led to Kitty Hawk)

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1878, a traveling father of two young boys brought home a rubber-band toy that flew across the room, hit the ceiling, and broke. Twenty-five years later, the two boys who played with it were …

The Handmaid's Tale Chapter 38. 1: Reunited in a Pink Bathroom | Banned Books Comedy

The Handmaid slips into the women's washroom of the hotel club, where an Aunt in a purple caftan and gold eyeshadow guards the door. Inside, behind the smoke and the pink walls, she finds Moira. Then Moira starts whispering the story of how she got out. This is the first half of the chapter, and it…

Recode Decode: Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul

Sidecar co-founder Sunil Paul talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his popular guest column for Recode, “The scooter wars will be a bloodbath, and Uber will win.” He elaborates on why that is and shares his thoughts about the broader transportation industry, including self-driving cars, bike-shar…

10 Small Towns That Changed American History Forever— Flyover Focus

Some of the biggest moments in American history happened in towns you've probably never heard of. Where did the Cold War get its name? Which American town officially didn't exist for three years while helping win World War II? And where did one of history's most famous inventions finally get off …

10 Small Towns That Changed American History Forever— Flyover Focus

Some of the biggest moments in American history happened in towns you've probably never heard of. Where did the Cold War get its name? Which American town officially didn't exist for three years while helping win World War II? And where did one of history's most famous inventions finally get off …

Before Kitty Hawk: The Genius Behind the Wright Brothers | Part 1

Before aviation transformed transportation, warfare, commerce, exploration, and global affairs, two brothers working from a bicycle shop set out to solve a problem many believed could not be solved. In Part One of this special two-part NucleCast Legacy Series, writer, actor, and longtime Wright bro…

From Kitty Hawk to the Cold War: The Wright Brothers’ Enduring Legacy | Part 2

In Part Two of NucleCast’s special Legacy Series on the Wright Brothers, Robert Leddy returns to explore what happened after Wilbur and Orville Wright solved one of humanity’s greatest technological challenges, and how their breakthrough helped reshape the century that followed. The conversation ex…