Daily Archives: August 6, 2007

Moller Flying Car Finally in Production

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OK, well it’s more of a flying moped, but still, it’s nice to see he’s finally got the M200G Volantor in production. No it’s not the skycar thing, it looks like a flying saucer. It flies 3m off the ground and goes around 50 mph. They’ll cost around EUR. 50,000 which isn’t too bad for this technology, but god knows how countries are going to require you to be licenced to fly one or if they’ll let you fly it everywhere.

This is the link to the corporate Moller website, where you’re confronted with the thing (the M400) everyone has been begging them to build since the 1960s. Nope, not yet. But the flying saucer thing is still cool.

Gender differences in the nose

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OK, so this is in mice, but if lab mice are engineered to not have the TRPC2 gene, or if they remove the pheremone receptor in their noses, females start acting like males and shag around, become riotous and leave their kids after as little as two days if a male comes around.
The most interesting inference the scientists made is that basically male / female behaviour is not hardwired into the brain, but comes (for a large part, and at least in mice) from this gene. Thus, there is only one basic model of brain for each species. The body around it creates the gender differences.

edit: 7/8/7
Of course, this study that show that women over 65 who have drunk more than 3 cups of coffee per day have better memories than those who didn’t (and for men it doesn’t make any difference) puts a bit of a cloud on that idea, hey?