We’ve heard this sort of thing before, but let’s play along anyway. In the not too distant future, we’ll get around in flying cars from Uber.
So says the BBC and Reuters today, claiming Uber and NASA are working on an aircraft to start demonstration flights by 2020, and service by the end of that decade.
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Sometimes, we’re lucky enough to get a good snapshot of what love looks like. It looks like this.
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A roundabout in Worthington, Minn., was apparently too confusing for the driver of an RV. So he/she simply ignored it and took the direct route. Read more →
Debi Berger, of Moorhead, didn’t get the last look at Christmas lights that her daughter and friends tried to arrange before she succumbed to liver cancer on Saturday.
Britney Berger had desperately tried to get people to put up Christmas lights early to ease her mom’s anxiety and fulfill a last wish.
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Since the story of Michael Oreskes surfaced last week, I’ve been waiting for NPR’s ombudsman to check in with an assessment of how NPR covered the story of sexual harassment allegations against the newsroom boss, who has since been fired. Today, Elizabeth Jensen did.
Third-parent adoption is legal in California. So, Zeke Hausfather and Avary Kent and David Jay are now the proud parents of Octavia. Read more →
There’s more to aviation than fighter jets, but people don’t seem as interested in looking up anymore unless there’s lots of noise and the appearance of danger. Read more →
Athletes could better show their patriotism by taking 5 minutes to learn how not to treat it when you win a marathon. Read more →
Trucks are dangerous partners on the highway. A good rule of thumb is to allow several zip codes to exist between you and the trucker. Read more →
You’ve been looking for a job for months now and you’ve finally scored an interview with a pretty good company. Your interview is going well when the interviewer asks if you plan to have kids.
It’s illegal to ask that question but what happens if you refuse to answer it and note that the interviewer just broke the law? And so, you just go along and make up an answer if you have to. Read more →
Even Weiss’ reason for not being even a little afraid of the possibility of a terrorist is going to get a lot of urban cyclists around the country cheering. He already deals with everyday automobile drivers, he writes. Read more →
Who among us hasn’t thought, ‘my life would be complete if I only had half a bridge to call my own’? Here’s our chance. Read more →
A couple in Wisconsin faced every bride and groom’s nightmare.
Nick Eckes’ mother and grandmother were killed in a wrong-way crash on State 57 in Appleton while on their way to the wedding rehearsal and traditional rehearsal dinner. Read more →
The AP’s reporting leaves just one big mystery: Why did they make it all up? Read more →
In Pillager, Minn., Noah Brogle, 16, loves recycling more than high school football.
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Bob Collins