by dave petraglia | Jun 19, 2014 | TECHNOLOGY |
(First published in May 2014 Issue of Gravel Magazine) Self driving cars are coming. Or going. Depends. Google’s working on it. Toyota and Mercedes. Some Ford cars already park themselves. We’ve been motoring without drivers on Mars for years, and...
by dave petraglia | Mar 10, 2013 | CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY |
JFK Saves the World with an Etch A Sketch That could easily have been the headline in October of 1962. When the drawing toy first arrived in the US, there’d never anything like it. In an age of fingerpainting and Play Doh, and woven summer-school...
by dave petraglia | Jan 25, 2013 | CULTURE |
A ‘Real Life Carbon Footprint Calculator’. Take our test. We factor more than just carbon impact, using some calculations that just aren’t that common. Here’s why you should: no sooner did the ink dry on the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty...
by dave petraglia | Dec 15, 2013 | SPACE |
[ Published in the Summer 2013 Dark Matter Journal] Cars on Mars. Traffic jams. Off-Road Rage. Fender Benders. Pileups on the Interquad. Chop Shops! Were we asleep at the wheel of these driverless buggies? How, and when, did it get to this? Seems like it was...
