This is the Mazda RX-7 Group B rally car, Top Gear

This is Mazda’s rotary powered RX-7 Group B car

. but it never raced. Rally RX-7 wished to go but Group B killed it before it could turn a wheel

Wait, what is that?

Well, there was a period in rallying known as Group B. You may have heard of it. It was four years of utter madness where fans, ambitions, politics and cars collided to provide one of the most memorable eras of motorsport ever. Contine reading

The Unprecedented Explosion of Smartphones in Myanmar

The Unprecedented Explosion of Smartphones in Myanmar

Outside the offices of an internet startup called nexlabs, a snarl of honking cars and rickshaws grinds to a standstill on a trash-strewn street lined with crumbling buildings. Inwards, however, the scene could be straight out of Silicon Valley.

Programmers in t-shirts and jeans tap away at laptops underneath posters exhorting them to “Innovate” and “Dance Like Crazy.” Local request for their smartphone apps and websites is exploding, and in the last twelve months they’ve inked marketing contracts with multi-nationals like Samsung Electronics Co. Contine reading

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb, Quanta Magazine

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb

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By Joshua Sokol

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Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and commenced to concentrate on a fresh strategy. Before, they would wait for prey to become ensnared in their webs and then walk out to retrieve it. Contine reading