DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
NEW SCIENCE: BE CAREFUL SNACKING IN PUBLIC - YOUR CHOICE COULD SPEAK VOLUMES
Source: Stock
- University of Otago researchers say it's likely that personality traits extend to food. Several studies involving hundreds of people have been done. Here are some examples:
- Impulsive people crave salt like pretzels and potato chips
- Spice and meat lovers are fun people who seek thrills
- Sweet lovers are probably insecure
- Fruit snack lovers tend to be imaginative, creative and insightful
- Dark chocolate, cranberry and coffee bean snack lovers could be psychopaths
- If your snack preferences are #1 through #4, it's okay to snack outside in public; but if your preference is #5, you may want to wait until you get home.
REVOLUTIONARY PLANE WITH NO TRADITIONAL WINGS & NO TAIL
Source: DARPA & Aurora
- The US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA - and Aurora Flight Sciences, a research subsidiary of Boeing, are developing a radical new plane concept with no traditional wings and tail. It could change fundamentally change future aircraft design and operations. Here's what you need to know:
- This is a first-of-its-kind aircraft design
- A plane that flies with no traditional wings and no tail
- It flies by the pilot controlling the air flow around the plane
- Nothing has been innovated like this in the 120 history of aviation
- It's called the X-65
- Maximum speed is Mach 0.7 or 537 mph
- It has a diamond-shaped, wing-like configuration on the top of the aircraft for air flow control
- There are no control surfaces that traditional planes have like rudders, flaps and stabilizers to climb, descend, bank and roll
- Test flights start in 2025:
- What are the benefits if this design proves successful?
- It cuts the weight and complexity of the plane, greatly reduces the number of moving parts that can break and improves performance and efficiency.
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