(2004) The Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency establishes the DARPA Grand Challenge. A self-driving car race that aims to inspire innovation in military autonomous vehicle tech. 2010s (2011) NASA and General Motors collaborate to send Robonaut 2, a humanesque robotic ...
This is an allegory, a story with an underlying message. In this case, the story is about an anthropomorphized tortoise and hare having a race. The message it conveys isdetermination and consistency triumph over arrogance. Allegory allows writers to express complicated matters in an approachable ...
What could driving a race car and pointing a camera at the Milky Way have incommon?More than you might imagine.Race car driver Bubba Wallace and photographerBatak Tefreshi journeyed together to remote Gooseberry Mesa for an adventure aimed atcapturing the night sky. Gooseberry Mesa,far from pop...
the Engineer Pyramid on LV-223 was NOT victim to an outbreak of hazardous material. These are an ancient race of highly skilled and intelligent beings - the likelihood of one of them not handling their bio-former material with care is extremely unlikely. ...
The situation has gotten worse thanks to a divisive presidential campaign punctuated by race baiting, religious jabs and anti-immigration appeals. Donald Trump's inflammatory words during the campaign -- he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and "criminals," and at one point said, "I think Islam...
I would try to answer in my broken English, and they would just laugh. I know they were not trying to be mean; they were just trying to understand who we were, and make a correlation with the world they knew. We could either be like them, or like characters out of a book filled ...
Even if you aren’twriting a bookabout complex topics like race, gender, and class, tone-based misinterpretation can still happen in everyday exchanges. If you’re texting someone you just met and are interested in romantically, the difference between “For sure!” and “OK” can be painfull...
The original red, black and white Formula One logo, now retired, was designed when the race began to achieve international recognition and notoriety. It was eye-catching and successful for several reasons. This punchy famous logo design is italicized, with the red part is made up of tiny ...
The novel largely stands as a metaphor for human existence and the failings of the human race. The island where the story takes place is thought to represent the outside world as a whole, and the kids in the novel are symbolic of the microcosmic and macrocosmic struggles we all face in...
abilities, thanks to his mom Rose Quartz, who just happened to be from an alien species known as theGems. The series follows Steven's coming-of-age story as he struggles with his identity as a half-Gem and gradually steps into his mother's footsteps as a protector of the human race. ...