The Evolution of Plant Minds

     I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...

Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Airlines Finally Emerge!

Again in the news today, is the topic of yet another new airline taking to the skies this week. The airline is named Trans-Pacific and has a cousin named Trans-Atlantic. Perhaps there aren't enough airlines going under?  It does seem a difficult time to launch a new...

Canadians rocking in Japan

Monkey Majik is a  band composed of two canadian brothers and two japanese musicians. Very successful band in Japan, since 2006. Last year they went to Canada for a small tour, and passed by Vancouver, where...

Looks at the New Zealand fly fishing and general fishing scene

With Virgin Blue/Pacific Blue continuing the great job of reducing air fairs, the TBF team decided it was the right time to take a look at the New Zealand fishing and holiday scene. Airfares to New Zealand have plummeted since Richard Branson came to the Aussie travelers...

Fly Free Contest on September 11

As Today is the seven anniversary of September 11, I could hardly believe what I was seeing in this morning’s Toronto Star, a two full page ad for a contest called” Fly Free Contest”, “Play Fly Free with the Toronto Star and West Jet Vacations daily and could win a...

Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly

Scratch another one off the list of "things only humans can do". This is not even a full artificial "intelligence"; it just learns how to compute data and algorithyms to fly a remote control helicopter, beaming instructions by radio signal 20 times a second. However, that...

The perfect way to swat a fly: stay one jump ahead

This research on how best to swat a fly comes up with the revealation that its best to anticipate "where it's going to jump" when it see's you coming for it. This could be applied to political opponents too -...

Families of 153 dead ask why plane was cleared to fly

"Angry relatives of Madrid crash victims asked yesterday why the aircraft was allowed to fly two hours after it aborted a take-off because of a technical fault. A total of 153 people died on Wednesday when the Spanair aircraft bound for the Canary Islands failed to take off,...

Preparing to cross the English Channel: Yves 'FusionMan' Rossy

This is part of a press release i received from Yves  Rossy's  'FusionMan' team. i'll be paying close attention this September to see what happens. I also heard that being able to take off from the...

US Killer Machines Visit A Small Town In Ireland!

When I came across the quote below I decided that it might be worth paying a visit to Bray to see what US killer machines look like and maybe I could get some photographs of the protest. When I arrived in Bray on...

Planes ‘fly empty’ to keep slots at Heathrow

The airlines tell us that they are concerned about the environment but they have to offer a service to their customers. Here we see bmi flying planes without passengers - very green." Britain’s third-largest...

Planes fly empty to keep value take-off slots at Heathrow

BMI, the third largest airline in the UK, has admitted it is planning to keep running virtually empty flights in spite of decreasing passenger numbers in order to hold on to its landing and takeoff slots at...

Man attaches himself to jet engine wings and takes off [VIDEO]

"Check out this amazing video of a Swiss man that has designed a set of wings sporting 4 jet engines.  He is tossed out of a plane at 8000 ft. free falling until he deploys his wings.Must be a wicked...

Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air...

Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill

" Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill David Edwards Raw Story Tuesday, June 17, 2008 A half-dozen military helicopters flew low over parts of Denver Monday night as part of a security drill...

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