Cool Stuff Ride Home

Wed. 09/01 - Flying EVs, Bedroom Pop, & Murder Hornets 2: Venomous Boogaloo

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Would you take a flying rideshare taxi? NASA is betting on it. Plus, murder hornets are back and badder than ever. And the growing genre of “bedroom pop,” which isn’t what it maybe sounds like.

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NASA is testing electric air taxis with Joby Aviation (The Verge)
  • Your air taxi has arrived: Why Joby could be the first commercial eVTOL (CNBC, Youtube)
  • A Special Message from our CEO and Founder, JoeBen Bevirt (Joby Aviation, YouTube)
  • NASA Begins Air Taxi Flight Testing with Joby (NASA)
  • 'Murder Hornets': Nest of 1,500 eradicated in the US (BBC)
  • Department of Agriculture Officials in Washington State Attacked While Trying to Remove Murder Hornet Nest (Inside Edition)
  • Just How Dangerous Is the ‘Murder Hornet’? (Scientific American)
  • What's bedroom pop? How an online DIY movement created a musical genre (NBC News)
  • Don’t Call it Bedroom Pop: The New Wave of DIY (Complex)
  • Elliot Page Is On a "Lo-Fi Bedroom Pop Adventure,” Drops Debut EP (them.)
  • Mark and Elliot EP (Mark and Elliot, Bandcamp)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter

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